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Sugar Surfing Lesson #7: Charting a course through time
Sailing across oceans has always been a potentially treacherous and risky endeavor. Before the days of engines, radio, radar, sonar and...
Sugar Surfing Lesson #6: The Basic Pivot
The pivot is to the Sugar Surfer as the forehand or backhand is to the tennis player. In this lesson I will review the basic insulin...
SUGAR SURFING LESSON #5: ONLOOKERS vs FIRST RESPONDERS
Through the years I've met thousands of families and adults with diabetes of all types and ages. Over the years, I would go on to know...
SUGAR SURFING LESSON #4: WHEN TO "DOUBLE TAP" A DELTA WAVE
Sugar Surfing™ requires “out of the box” thinking. Traditional diabetes education often discourages taking between meal rapid-acting...
SUGAR SURFING LESSON #3: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
As a patient (and later as a physician) I was taught to consider blood sugar management like a mathematical equation. First, gather a...
SUGAR SURFING LESSON #2: STOLEN BASES
The other day, I was discussing Sugar Surfing™ with a t1d teen in clinic. She is a competitive softball player; a pitcher. As I reviewed...
SUGAR SURFING LESSON: BASAL NEUTRALITY
The ability to establish and keep a steady basal blood sugar trendline pattern (called a “shelf” in Sugar Surfing™ parlance) is an...
