ACT1 Diabetes

This is day number 2 of Diabetes Blog Week and the topic is: tell us about your favorite way to treat a low.  Juice? Glucose tabs? Secret candy stash? What’s your favorite thing to indulge in when you are low?  What do you find brings your blood sugar up fast without spiking it too high?

 
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First, a special thank you to our friend Karen who organized this wonderful thing called Diabetes Blog Week!  I can’t say enough how it warms my heart to see so many of us in the diabetes community collaborating together to share our own stories.  Now on to the first post of the week
 

 
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Walking.  It’s something that I have taken for granted.  It wasn’t until I was unable to walk normally for the past few weeks that I truly appreciate that I have the  capability to do it.
About five weeks ago I was home cleaning and organizing my apartment.  We have two small pets so keep baby gates [...] [...]

Medtronic has recently introduced a new insulin pump called the Paradigm Real-time Revel system.  I was fortunate to get a new Revel about two weeks ago and wanted to share my thoughts.  Please keep in mind that I have no affiliation whatsoever with Minimed and what is written here is strictly my own opinion based on [...] [...]