Mind Over Mellitus

With the new year still fresh, if you’re like me you’re thinking about all you want to accomplish and learn, how you can improve yourself, and what dreams to pursue. It’s so easy to get swept away with inspiration. It feels like there is a big, empty year out there waiting to be filled!
Being overly [...]

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Hypoglycemia probably causes me more day-to-day suffering and frustration with diabetes than anything else. It triggers a cascade of counter-regulatory or “stress hormones” - adrenaline, cortisol, epinephrine - activated by our “fight or flight” reflex when something really bad happens. “Yikes!”, my body responds.
The vice tightens in my gut. My face and shoulders become involuntarily [...]

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My new friend Amy Tenderich, the award-winning blogger behind DiabetesMine, posted a fun, revealing interview about yours truly, my diagnosis, this blog, and other hidden secrets of my private, personal life as a diabetic.
I was also thrilled to announce a soon-to-be-launched project I’m creating with my wife Joanne and our friend Eric — www.YourBestSugar.com, a diabetes-friendly dating site. We’ll “open” on November [...]

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