Diabetic to Dietetics

Sport with diabetes is all about trial and error. What worked for you last week may not work for you today, and what worked for you today may not work…

When I was a kid, about 10 or 11 years old, I experienced diabetes burnout leading to diabulimia. I didn’t know what it was it was then, all I knew…

Katie Bartel features sport with type-1 diabetes in podcast form.

Seven years ago. It was seven years ago I first announced to the world (via princessofpavement.com) my intentions of switching careers; I was moving on from the every day excitement…

Dear Little Ring, The other day you came home with an eraser in hand. You were determined to erase the “white lines” on my legs. You scrubbed and you scrubbed.…

This has not been a good week for me and Dear Diabetes. In the last five days I have had 55-60 total units of insulin shooting through my body. Of…

Again with the timing of appropriateness. Twelve years ago yesterday, after about a month and a half of tinkering with the idea, Big Ring and I made our togetherness official.…

It seems appropriate I write this post today. It’s a post long overdue. Some of you already know, some have forgotten, some don’t know at all. On this day three…

Tears. When I got the email two weeks ago, my heart broke into pieces. We had been together for 21 years. I had chosen this man, picked him specifically from…

It has been 214 days since I last ran a race. I haven’t been itching to get out there. Some of my runs have been serious struggles. Mental struggles more…