Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness while living with type 2 diabetes
Here we are, in the wake of another Diabetes Awareness Month. A month of being bombarded with tributes to Dr. Banting, ads featuring that musician and his snazzy CGM, and PSAs going on and on about how we need to look for the signs. The same old questions came up – yet again. Why don’t we see more people with type 2 diabetes online?
Wishing you and yours all the best in the New Year.
From the International Diabetes Federation: 1 in 10 adults worldwide have diabetes. Over 90% have type 2 diabetes. Close to half are not yet diagnosed. Do you know if you are at risk?
Recently Oprah characterized using Ozempic for weight loss as “taking the easy way out.”
Wait. What?
It was about five years ago that I wrote my first article about the importance of disaster preparedness when living with diabetes. Looking back, the advice I gave then seems almost quaint. It was all about making sure your devices were charged up and you had a backup battery. These days disaster prep requires so much more.