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Continue reading →: Reflection: Living Through a Pandemic
Here we are in month 18 of a pandemic. While I was pursuing my bachelor’s degree in Public Health and learning about pandemics, I never thought I’d see one in my lifetime, but here we are. I especially never thought I’d see a pandemic with as far as we have…
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Continue reading →: Trip Review: Jamaica, Ya Mon!Welcome to my first travel review post! I really enjoy reading (or watching on YouTube) about people’s travel reviews and recommendations so thought I’d put together a little review of my own to share my experience of my most recent trip to Jamaica. Keep on reading to hear about my…
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Continue reading →: Traveling with Diabetes: How to Prepare and Pack to Enjoy your Trip to the FullestThere is nothing like the peace, rest, relaxation, and adventure of a vacation, but traveling with diabetes can be intimidating or stressful when thinking about packing all the necessary supplies, being prepared for a variety of situations that may come your way, and being far away from your diabetes care…
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Continue reading →: Low vs. High Blood Sugar: Part 2 – High Blood Sugar (Hyperglycemia)A question I have commonly received is, which is worse, high blood sugar or low blood sugar? The short answer to that is low blood sugar is worse in the short term and high blood sugar is worse in the long term. And for the long answer…this is part two…
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Continue reading →: Low vs. High Blood Sugar: Part 1 – Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)A question I have commonly received is, which is worse, high blood sugar or low blood sugar? The short answer to that is low blood sugar is worse in the short term and high blood sugar is worse in the long term. And for the long answer…this will be part…
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Continue reading →: What is Diabetes?Having a basic physiologic understanding of what diabetes is and how it’s caused is a key stepping stone in diabetes management, supporting your loved ones with diabetes, and supporting the diabetes community as a whole. If you are someone currently living with diabetes, understanding the why can empower the what…
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Continue reading →: With Diabetes in Mind
After obtaining a degree in public health, working in healthcare consulting for many years, and actively engaging in our healthcare system as someone living with type 1 diabetes, I can tell you this. The healthcare system in the United States is not built to support those with chronic health conditions.…
Hello,
I’m Katherine
Welcome to With Diabetes in Mind, a diabetes health and lifestyle blog dedicated to sharing my experience in living with type 1 diabetes along with sharing my health knowledge from my career experience and health and exercise science degrees. I hope this blog provides relatable information in experiencing the daily challenges of diabetes, knowledge to empower living a healthy life and taking control of managing diabetes, and a reminder that life with diabetes is still worth living and designed with purpose. Let’s connect via the Contact option or at the links below!
