Disclosures are important, so I’m making a new one today, and my disclosure policy has been updated accordingly. There are some big changes on deck for 2016, with the first one being a change in some of the companies I’m partnering with. Which is why I’ve decided to end my contract with Animas, because it was time for a change….
Diabetes Blog Week: The Quiet Parts.
Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Complications, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life Diabetes, Relationships, Robot LifeFeels weird, and slightly ironic, starting a blog post about the diabetes-related things I don’t share here on the diabetes blog I’ve written here on the open Internet about my personal experiences with the disease. It’s been ten years of this – the idea that there’s crap I don’t talk about might seem like a big fat lie. But there…
“Your thing is going off.” Though nondescript, that phrase is a loaded one. It is Chris-speak for, “Your Dexcom is making an alarm of some kind; you need to take a look at it.” And now that the Dexcom SHARE application is feeding my glucose results to my husband and a few other authorized viewers, when the thing goes off,…
Animas Vibe: A Few Weeks Later.
Blood Sugars, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Diabetes Products, Pumping Insulin, Robot LifeAgain, disclosure: I work with Animas and have a sponsorship contract. Here are more details on my disclosures. And this is the Mr. Plow theme song. Mr. Plow would be great, about now, since the snow keeps dumping down outside. It’s been several weeks since I’ve switched to the Animas Vibe insulin pump (with integrated CGM technology – doesn’t that…
Oh YAY!!! [Disclosures first: I have a sponsorship relationship with Animas and have since early 2010, so everything said here is colored by that bias. For more information on my disclosures, you can read my disclosure page.] I was really excited to see in my inbox this morning that the Animas Vibe insulin pump has been approved for use in…
I’ve been using the Dexcom SHARE for the last few days. And while I don’t want to defer back to a list of PROS and CONS like I did with the gluten mess the other day, it’s a better way to streamline a post, so I’m doing it and doing it and doing it well. Also, this is not a…