Train in Vain

This one is a bit of a double (triple, quadruple?) entendre. This title ran through my head the other day when I was literally running. I was having a rough long run day. My blood sugars were not cooperating, my legs felt heavy, I was…

Will the Real T:Slim Shady Please Stand Up?

This title kind of had to be. My new insulin pump was really just waiting for it. Keeping with my music-themed post titles, I’m borrowing from Eminem with a disclaimer that I have no idea what that song is actually about – I just found…

Slow Ride

March is National Autoimmune Awareness Month. The song that doubles as my blog title for this post and the band who wrote it, Foghat, really describe this topic: Thyroid disease, specifically, hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s disease – slow and foggy for sure. What is that exactly?…

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…

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…