T1D adult camp: exploring mental health
Back to camp I go! Last month, I had the privilege to host an interactive workshop on mental health and T1D at Connected in Motion’s Western Slipstream 2024.
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Certified Diabetes Educator – approved!
You can just call me CDE: Certified Diabetes Educator! Hi friends! This post has taken me awhile to get to, but better late than never, am I right 😉 Last May, I took a gruelling 4-hour exam, after months and months of studying to become a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), and late last month I got the results. I am officially a T1D, RD, CDE. So. Many. Letters. And you better believe I’ll be using all of them on my official signing off documents 🙂 What does it mean – part 1 Officially, a Certified Diabetes Educator is a health professional (like me!) that is “committed to excellence in diabetes education“, and who has a “sound knowledge base in diabetes care, management, and education processes.” Good communication skills and passing the CDE exam are also must haves to be a Certified Diabetes Educator. Unofficially, honestly, it’s an extra set of
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Sport with T1D trial and error efforts continue
Because sometimes, with type 1 diabetes, you’ve just got to keep on trying until you find a recipe that works for you. Hi friends!! It’s been awhile since I last posted. Life has been crazy busy, but I’m back now. Hopefully, for a good time and a long time 😉 Preach the trial and error As some of you may recall, I am a strong preacher of trial and error when it comes to individualizing diabetes care, and this goes for my T1D care too! So let’s talk sport and T1D trial and error. Every Saturday my favourite cycling chick and I go for a ride. For years, I have kept my T1D strategies similar to my running strategies: Get up 3-4 hours before the ride Eat breakfast with a reduced bolus Monitor blood sugars closely before the ride, and input a temporary basal anywhere from 60-90 minutes before Honestly,
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Covid and type-1 diabetes, take 2
Covid and type-1 diabetes: here we go again! Friends, I have been laid up for the past eight days with the Coronavirus attacking my insides. This is my second time with the virus and it was nothing like my first exposure. Let’s rewind to the start, shall we. GnR: the seed of Covid My husband and I took our son to his first concert, Guns ’N Roses, last Monday. It was a blast! It was so much fun watching our kid rocking out to Axl’s lyrics, and exclaiming Slash’s riffs. However, a few ironic things occurred that fateful evening: My colleagues at the hospital that day got their Covid booster and flu shot, but I said, no, no, I’m gonna wait; I don’t want any potential side effects to ruin our evening. On the walk to Skytrain, my son asked if we should have brought masks, which we didn’t. We
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Managing menstruation with type-1 diabetes
Discussing the challenges and possible solutions for managing menstruation with type-1 diabetes, and removing unnecessary stigmas surrounding menstruation, period.
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