This race was the 12-Hour Mooser Madness Endurance Run in Pennsburg, PA. The course was primarily single-track technical trail, with a few double-track sections mixed in. Think roots, rocks, dirt, mud, shade — all the fun things that come with …
Glucose Tabs, & Karate Kicks: Fall Sports with a T1D Twist
Fall Sports!
If back-to-school means pencils, backpacks, and lunchboxes, it also means the return of the Foster Taxi—me shuttling kids off to their athletic adventures, armed with a stash of chips, fruit, and now, for Owen, glucose tabs. This year’s …
Where the #%$& is his pump?!
The evening started easily enough. It was site change day.
Owen was in the shower doing his “get the set wet so it can come off without taking any skin with it” routine. I was in the living room doing …
Carb Counts & Campfires: A T1D Camp Adventure
For those of you with diabetes – do you remember diabetes camp?
I sure do. I went to a small camp in New Jersey called Camp Firefly. Its logo was a syringe-turned-firefly (do fireflies even have stingers, or was …
When Diabetes Silences Your Words
It’s been a little while since I’ve written here, and I wanted to share why.
It started with a horrible hyperglycemia episode caused by a kinked cannula—so bad that my eyelids hurt—that left me feeling pretty awful for a few …