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What aspect of your diabetes maintenance causes you the most stress?
Taking medication
 
Checking my blood glucose levels all the time
 
Possible complications
 
Knowing what to eat
 
Finding time and motivation for exercise
 
Managing all my diabetes-related appointments
 
I hate the needles!
 
Becoming totally insulin dependent
 
Dealing with highs/lows
 
I just don't want people to know I have it.
 
Some of the above
 
All of the above
 
None of the above
 
I don't get stressed that often about managing my diabetes.
 

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by Nicole Purcell
Glucagon is one of those things that hasn't changed much in the diabetes world, in terms of packaging, dosing, method of delivery, since the time of my diagnosis in 1982. It's also one of those items that you buy in the same vein as say a generator. You might never use it, but it sure as heck is handy to have should your lights go out. The first time I was given glucagon was on the front lawn of my childhood home. What I remember of that night was going to bed after a...