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"Z minus 10,000 meters"
“Z MINUS 10,000 METERS” Nerd alert! This post contains some really old sci-fi references This is one of my favorite diabetes teaching...


"Fine tuning my diabetes"
This is an overused phrase. It's overheard when people discuss theirs or their child’s diabetes. It’s classically said in reference to a...


Why Sugar Surf?
Why Sugar Surf? Lost in the haze of college rock, winging it, and not logging, it turns out that I began developing my own version of a...


Sugar Surfing from the beginning...
A dynamic diabetes care approach from the beginning . . . My son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 6, just following...


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 2018: GO BIG
2018 inaugurates my term as AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year. "Honored" can't describe the feeling of being the first physician...


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...