A couple weeks ago, a tweet from Ron Graham (@rongraham1) echoed the general belief that it is easier to tell the truth than "to worry about remembering what it was you said". Seems to me even "telling the truth" requires a bit of memory. How much truth did you tell? Whose truth? And to whom did you tell it? The only Truth about "truth" is that it is relative: there's my truth, your truth, your partner's truth, and the fellow across the road's truth. (Scott Johnson's
recent blog entry on Diabetes Daily examines the different truths of
his diabetes management through doctor's and patient's perspectives.)

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Matthias Gelinski

12.5? 10.0? 7.8? 8.2?

That is what my last four hemoglobin A1c tests have been. I just got the results for my latest blood work this week.

When my nurse gave me the results I was not surprised. My carb intake has been a lot more then usual and my blood sugars have been high often. Since I switched to the Weight Watchers Core Plan like so many of you suggested, my BG has been very good this week. I am hopeful that I can get that A1c down next time. But are those numbers bad? (READ MORE)

Diabetes: It sounds like such an ugly thing. The sound of the word diabetes makes me think something bad. When you hear the word said you're probably not thinking it is a good thing. DIABETES, I say it out loud to myself and I attempt to analyze it. The first part of the word says "Di" pronounced "die". DIABETES, I say it again. Why are you such an ugly sounding word? Can we rename you "beautiful-abetes"? That sounds a lot better. When you hear "diabetes" your mind instantly associates with bad. But, if our disease name was a word that didn't make you say "di(e)", I bet we wouldn't have as many people feeling sorry for us. How about "liveable-abetes"? I could LIVE with that!

I don't know, maybe a bunch of us could get a petition together to change the name?? I would personally take it to congress to see about getting that done!! (Just some food for thought).
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