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Jan Chait
Jan Chait was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in January 1986. Since then, she has run the gamut of treatments, beginning with diet and exercise. She now uses an insulin pump to help treat her diabetes.
Cruising in a Sea of Frustration
I’m sitting on a teeny-tiny shower seat on a cruise ship. More precisely, since there’s a grab bar behind the seat, I’m sitting on the front edge of a teeny-tiny shower seat. The seat is vinyl and the soap is making it very slippery. I only have one foot to balance myself. To top it off, the ship is rocking — good for putting you to sleep, but not so good for trying to maintain your balance while showering on a too-small, slippery seat…
Veronica Elsea Handles Diabetes Frustrations With a Song
It was a day — like many others, actually — that Veronica Elsea just could not get a drop of blood out of her fingers. Hey, happens to all of us. For Veronica, however, it’s doubly distressing. Blinded by high oxygen levels in the incubator she was placed in after her premature birth, she needs her fingers to do much more than merely release a drop of blood to check her glucose levels…
It’s Vacation Time! Worry, Obsess, and Fret
Ever since my trip to New York City with my granddaughter in January, when I went through four infusion sets in three days, I’ve been concerned about how much “stuff” to take for a three-week trip that’s mostly out of the country..
Should You be Putting Food in That?
Dr. Barbara Corkey doesn’t eat processed foods. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, considering the biochemist’s findings in research she’s been doing on food additives…
Wish I Could (Still) Eat That
It was nearly 60 years ago, but I can still remember “helping” my grandfather in his garden when I was a little girl. First came tomatoes, then the neat rows of corn festooned with pole beans climbing up the stalks in his garden beside the Kanawha River in Glasgow, West Virginia…
“Should You be Eating That?” Could Have a New Meaning
I’ll be danged. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council to ban bisphenol A (BPA) from food packaging…
All is OK in the End, but the Middle Sucked
You can stay here for three hours, or you can stay here overnight,” said the nurse standing in the doorway of my room in the surgery recovery area. “Those are your choices…”
Aching Joints Aside, Things are Looking Up
Happy Birthday to Dad, who is 88 years old today. I made a pan of his favorite bar cookies yesterday and overnighted them to him, uncut, along with a card and two candles in the shape of the number 8…
Do I Know How to Celebrate or What?
It appears I’ll be “celebrating” Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month by having a colonoscopy. Less than one year after I had the last one…
How’d He Do That?
So, as I was telling you earlier this month, my blood glucose was all over the place and running high for the most part and I was in the throes of filling out an intensive log listing blood glucose, number of carbohydrates consumed, amount of insulin taken, times, phases of the moon, which Tarot card surfaced, etc…
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