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Diabetic to Dietetics
Out with the old…
November 25, 2012
Diabetes
You can’t be loyal forever, not when it comes to shoes. For close to three years my feet have been laced up in the white and neon green Mizuno Wave…
3 months: to the moon and back
November 22, 2012
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Three months. Three months means you’re now showing off your handsome smile, you’re persistently trying to express a hearty laugh that so far translates into a gaping, gummy maw, you’re…
The ballad of my life
November 14, 2012
Diabetes
Today is World Diabetes Day. This day is the birthday of Dr. Frederick Banting, who, 91 years ago, discovered insulin. Insulin keeps me alive. But insulin is not a cure.…
Trainer trials and tribulations
November 13, 2012
Diabetes
Good golly I can’t believe I used to do this for up to an hour, even an hour and a half, at a time! Little Ring: “Tall person with boobies,…
Unlocking the T-1 shackles
November 4, 2012
Diabetes
A Cure… It would mean I could live freely without people looking at me with pity in their eyes, or telling me tales about their grandma who had her foot…
Trick or Cycle
October 31, 2012
Training
Happy Halloween from Princess and the Rings! Little Ring dressed up as Babby Merckx (Eddy Merckx’ long lost brother from another mother ;)) what did you dress up as?
Comeback postponed
October 27, 2012
Pregnancy in Diabetes
I’ve been good, like really good. Despite desperately wanting to, I haven’t run, not once. I’ve painstakingly crushed those urges and longings that fill me every time I lace up…
New kid on the block
October 21, 2012
Diabetes
For someone who doesn’t like change, my gawd, I sure did make a HUGE one this week. After nearly three years, and two identical replacements, there’s a new pump in…
Don’t kill Shelby, kill the movie
October 12, 2012
Diabetes
Steel Magnolias? A remake? Are you freaking kidding me? Who in their right mind would go out of their way to remake that gawd awful flick? I mean, unless they…
Nightmare on T-1 street
October 4, 2012
Diabetes
It’s not like it should have come as a surprise, but it did, and my gawd, it scared the freaking bejesus out of me. Last night I woke up in…
Sleepless in Baby Town
October 3, 2012
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You know you’ve turned into a zombie when… You forget to put deodorant on consecutive days in a row… You eat dinner with your breast (which was just used as…