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Pump Drama Update 2

This post is by Coral! Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog titled, “Pump Drama Continues.” It was about how discouraged I was becoming because I heard that my health insurance had a Durable Medical Cap of $2000 and thus I’d have to come out of pocket $3000 in order to get a pump. Thank you Scott, [...] [...]

You are lucky, you have diabetes

Blog by Coral! I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner with family and/or friends. I did a surprisingly ok job at guestimating how much insulin to take for turkey, gravey, mashed potatoes, yams, green bean casserole, stuffing, fudge nut pie, pumpkin pie, and apple pie with whipped cream. Yummmm…. My oldest brother and his wife just [...] [...]

Pump Drama continues

Post by Coral I’m one of the last women in the group to get a pump… and it looks like it is going to take even longer than I had thought. Curious to find out what my health insurance would cover for a pump, I asked this wonderful woman from minimed if she could do a [...] [...]

Happy World Diabetes Day (5 mins overdue)

Post by Coral I just came back from a wonderful dinner and movie date with several of my lovely T1 sisters, their hubbies, boyfriends and Sean : ) We wasted about 2 hours of our lives watching the movie “Men who stare at goats.” But it was well worth wasting time with great company. We then proceeded [...] [...]

Trouble Sleeping

Post by Coral! For the last few months I have been having trouble sleeping. This past week was particularly rough because work required me to stay in the office later than usual. I would get home around 9pm, eat something for dinner, say a quick ‘what up’ to my roommates (if they were around) and then [...] [...]