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i’m only human
over the weekend, my father and i sat down for a heart to heart. not the kind of h2h you have when you are in trouble or when bad news is being shared. this was the heart to heart you have with a...
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Being Addicted to Poetic Prose: Why I’ll Never Be a Successful Writer
Originally published on my Medium page. It is with a rhythm that I scribe, a cadence one better. With pauses and causes and intentions, I spill. I want to tell you how I feel before I tell you what it...
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then she lit up a candle, and she showed me the way
i’ve been applying for jobs. why, right? i have an amazing job already. i get to be with loving warm people and lancet (THE dog) gets to come to work with me everyday. i spend my time talking to people...
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let me share this whole new world with you
there is much debate in the diabetes online (and offline) community about whether a person with diabetes ought to be considered or consider one self, “disabled”. sharing my position on this is...
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Rocking Coachella With Diabetes
today i am heading out to coachella. it is a music festival in indio, CA near los angeles. it is four days of dancing in the hot hot sun. before i get to the diabetes part of this post, i must...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2014: Day 3
that was my first diabetes blog. A Bit of a Written Advantage i started it when i was 20 and kept it a secret until now. i did so because it reveals a darkened heart and a troubled soul i didn’t share...
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don’t you want somebody to love?
patient and waiting for the chance to ask, a woman in the back stands to say “my patients are asking, ‘why me?’ and i don’t know what to say.” there, right there, i wanted to shift my body weight from...
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pop, pop, pop that thang
this post is not drug related, despite the title. or, well, i guess it is. insulin is a drug isn’t it? correction to that first line there: this post is indeed drug related. LIFE UPDATE i moved to...
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the lion sleeps tonight
a1c a1c, here we go again. feeling a little stuck: habit changes, diet changes, exercise additions a1c same same same. i know nothing as demoralizing as changing your diabetes habits and not seeing...
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i’m gonna show you what i’m made of
last night was magnanimous; built of epic proportions. i moseyed to work at sleepy dog brewery in tempe, AZ, ready for a good night of pouring beer and laughing it up. often on thursday evenings, a...
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that ribbon of highway
all the way back on the first day of this year, i jotted down a list of diabetes related goals for the year. it has sat in my drafts since then, probably wishing it had legs to walk and a voice to...
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something only we know
welcome to medicine x. you, sit in a room filled with powerful, strong headed people living with life circumstances you really can only begin to imagine and you listen. you try and be a sponge while...
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sun, sun, sun, here it comes
in the wake of the great and powerful stanford medicine x conference, i want to share with you a recent trip i took. it all started in the bar where i tend. i’m doing my thing at sleepy dog brewery,...
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the crystal ship is being filled
on day 0 of medicine x, i, along with other epatients, attended and participated in a special event called “partnering for health” sponsored by eli lilly and company. the day revolved around clinical...
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i am the one
i’ve been working out my applications for doctoral programs as of late, crossing off all the little ticks: pre-apply. identify programs of interest 1. complete online app 2. acquire both official and...
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and, oh, what a change there’d be
so you have heard of medicine x, the conference at stanford university that truly integrates patient voice and perspective, the conference that trends on twitter because the online component is...
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ground control to major tom
ever come face to face with someone harboring a radically different perspective on diabetes? one that doesn’t jive with yours? one that you wish you didn’t still hear? one that takes just a little...
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these nights never seem to go to plan
i woke up with ketones and i’m feeling pretty shit-tastic. right now. every keyboard button i press takes a little more effort every stroke requires a deliberate action nothing comes natural except to...
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and the love for what you hide
benign. a word you hope to only use in benign situations, also known as the situations that are figurative in nature, or ones that are devoid of the possibility of cancer. it’s nothing. nearly three...
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it’s beginning to look a lot like…
like pain, it is a feeling i forget between occurrences. it is sweeping, it takes me over entirely, and i well up inside. every so often, i feel a glimpse of what is to come an acknowledgment of the...
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