habits fade in and out, slowly. like riding your bike everyday, for example. everyday turns into every other day. every other day turns into every third day. every third day turns into once a week. then once a week fades into, ‘whoa, it’s been a while’. anyone else have a tendency to treat diabetes like […]
last thursday was the first thanksgiving not spent with my immediate family. preparing for the last four or five thanksgivings have been gut-wrenching stressful and i don’t mean the cooking, nor the food shopping in crowds. i don’t mean the organizing of who sits where, nor even counting cards. i don’t mean anything diabetes related […]
there are nine drafts in my wordpress. nine attempts at constructing something beautiful. nine decisions to not follow through. nine moments of overly dismissive self-editing. nine works deemed inadmissible, unworthy, empty. nine potential pathways to connection, lost. okay, because i am so good at math, i know that nine times nine times nine times nine […]
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tudiabetes.org (@tu_diabetes) world diabetes day preparation. get it. thank you Mr Mike Lawson and the Diabetes Hands Foundation for making this video possible.
my cousin got married last weekend. i went to the home where i grew up before hand because it was en route. i’m not sure what inspired me to begin poking around my old stuff, but i ended up with a book of poetry in my hands. it is more like a stack of papers […]
you know the feeling of being overwhelmed right? you’ve felt it, talked about it, heard about it, maybe even cried about it? it can be gut-wrenching. if you’re like me, it’s this internal friction that just looms and grows and mocks. it has a great power over me, and even when i know that i […]
my panic was suspended. home-treat. no hospital. –> lungs, you may inflate. last friday, after of a string of not-so-thought-through decisions and indecisions, i became a ketonic-mega-monster. that’s a thing, right? the highly unfortunate sequence of events: i had a beer the evening before around 11pm, after an intense two hours of dodgeball (one game […]
how long does it take to be considered a veteran? how long until one can be honored with a certificate of completion? what governing institution would offer the PhD in diabetes management that each pwd has been working their buns of steel off to achieve? i’m 23. i might be wise beyond my years, but […]
waiting. you know what it is like right? you’re friends tell you things like: just keep swimming, patience is a virtue, good things come to those who wait, get your mind off it, go for a run or something, chill… maybe you are waiting for your lab results or to hear back from grad school. […]
a mom once told me that she is the face of diabetes her child, needing needles and blood draws woken from slumber by a mother who loves her wanting only survival one more night, she tries type three transitions her child grows into a young girl and sees diabetes as a monster within her scratching […]
Unexpected Blues 