The last 2 years I’ve run each year in the area hospital’s Dash for Diabetes 5K. For some reason this year it’s coming about 6 weeks earlier than prior years and will be on April 4th this year. Because of that, I haven’t resumed my strength training with squats and deadlifts this week, instead I’ve [...]
So last Friday, after the weeks of emails and phone calls, it was the day to finally meet this woman. I woke up before my alarm went off, excited that there was a little less than 9 hours to go until I would see her.
I sent a good morning message and not much longer [...]
March 17, 2009 – 10:03 am
This was the date 24 years ago that my mom took me to the doctor and after he saw my brown pee in the urine sample cup, told my mom to take me to the nearest hospital. I was a type 1 diabetic, my body had been burning its fat and I was dying.
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I remember [...]
I’m getting close to the anniversary date of admission to the hospital with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. 24 years ago, my blood was thickening up into a syrup and my body was burning off all its fat which was upsetting the PH balance and taking me towards diabetic ketoacidosis.
I had been a [...]
I haven’t updated on anything here for a while.
I closed out 4 weeks of harder training efforts with strength bias yesterday by running a crappy 5 miles on crappy tired legs. These next couple of weeks I’m not going to do any squatting or deadlifting, just going to stretch my legs out with some [...]