40 Years in The Hole

I’m using a variation of Humble Pie’s “40 Days in The Hole” for this blog post title, and it’s a pretty apt description at times. Sometimes this disease can indeed feel like trying to crawl out of a hole. It’s overwhelming. It’s exhausting. It is…

Big Money Got No Soul

I posted on Facebook last month about my quest to get Medtronic’s “hybrid closed-loop” pump, the 670G. My original post was intended to be about how much it costs to be a healthy Type 1 diabetic in this age of for-profit healthcare. (Or Type 2, for…

Under Pressure

I love both Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, so I’m starting the new year off with a nod to both in this post’s title. I haven’t written in a while and there have been several reasons why. First off, I had been training since last…