Diabetes Thoughts Blog

Just for Halloween, I updated my holiday page with new carbohydrate information for common trick or treat candy:

http://www.diabetesthoughts.com/Holiday.html

Hope it is helpful for you.
Lisa

The second annual World Diabetes Day is arriving on November 14th and people from TuDiabetes and DiabetesDaily are hoping that Google adds a doodle on that day. See some examples of other doodles here: Holiday Google Doodles.

Head over to their petition site to find out more.

So I had two things happen to me today that made me smile. First, a person I work with told me that they thought I was a student. Let’s just say that I am quite a bit older than my students. That made my day.

Then, when I came home I noticed a Halloween bag on my doorknob. There was candy and some stickers, pencils and other Halloween treats. Along with all this was a picture of a ghost and a letter. The letter explained that I was hit by the Halloween Phantom. I now need to make two more treat bags and give them to my neighbors. I have to put the ghost on my door so everyone knows that we were already ghosted. My daughter thought this was the coolest thing ever. We will be putting together the treat bags soon and “ghosting” two other unsuspecting souls… The whole thing is a very fun idea. I have never heard of it before….

So, all and all a good day.

A recent episode of Law and Order: SVU had a character that had diabetes — Confession. I wouldn’t suggest the episode to anyone that doesn’t normally watch SVU because this episode was particularly disturbing. Without giving much away, there was a character played by Tom Noonan. Almost immediately after introducing the character he tested his blood sugar. So, you know that his diabetes status would come up later.

When the detectives find some blood later, the medical examiner decided to test the blood’s HbA1c because the hemoglobin was so high. They then claimed that it was because of diabetes.

Um… someone with diabetes doesn’t normally have high hemoglobin levels. True, the HbA1c would be high, but that isn’t because of a high amount of hemoglobin. It would have been better that they mentioned a high blood sugar. (Extra points, they could have mentioned his ketone level.)