Type One Outdoors

Sensor Re-Place Day

What happens behind the scenes when my 3-month Eversense CGM Sensor has to be replaced at the end of 90 days
… In case you’re curious.

Eversense: Trail Charge

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By packing a power bank, a short USB & the charge cradle I can do multiple re-charges AND packs down small for easy carrying.

Eversense: The 1st 10 Days

Being a CGM user for the past decade, I’ve tried a variety of short-term CGM’s, but this was the first time on a “long-(er)-term” implanted CGM. Here’s my experience from the first 10 days wearing the “Eversense”

Training hypos on the Course: Experiments Continue…

The reality is, there is no fix. We can only fine tune the corrections.
It can be a real frustration at times when we think we have found the answer to correcting lows that show up in times and places only to have the blood sugar issue we’ve been chasing make us think we were wrong all along.

A Rock Solid Adhesive

A Rock-SolidAdhesive Well, it’s sort of a system.Many type ones who wear pumps and CGM’s struggle to find a method to keep adhesives doing what they’re supposed to do… Be Sticky!!!. Most of the issues are the adhesive on the infusion site tape don’t hold up more that a couple days before they start peeling […]

Back-Timing and Glucose for that awesome sunset pic

This morning while out on a trail run in the Santa Monica Mountains, I noticed some changes in the weather; cooler temps, and some high clouds and thought “I think the sunset will be awesome tonight”

Diabetics in the Outdoors… I know you’re out there… Hello? Hello?

Type one’s have an amazing ability to blend in with everyone else, They’re elusive, stealthy, and even the ones who flaunt their “diabeticness” tend to go unnoticed unless you know what you’re looking for. But what about in the remote regions of the outdoors? Where there’s even less of just about everyone? Is there any hope of seeing another type one out here?