Type 1 diabetes

The importance of relationship building in T1D care

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Registered Dietitian

Relationship building in T1D care is so important. Relationships build trust. They create a foundation of respect. And they help healthcare treat people like people, not like their conditions.  This post is all about an endocrinologist who practiced the fundamentals of relationship building long before it was ever considered a thing. The man. The myth. The legend. The other night I was at a T1D research event in Vancouver, learning all about current T1D research happening right here in my neck of the woods. So much research filled my brain. Super cool stuff that my brain is still trying to process. As I was reading through one of the poster boards, I heard a voice. A very, very distinctive voice. A voice I hadn’t heard in close to 30 years. Meet Dr. Dan.  Dan Metzger is an endocrinologist at BC Children’s Hospital.  I was one of his first patients. And […]

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Poor wound healing is not a guarantee with T1D

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Registered Dietitian

Wound healing in T1D is a somewhat controversial topic. Many believe that people with T1D are automatic poor wound healers. But, that’s not actually the case. Yes, diabetes does have an increased risk for wound healing implications, but that risk is not a guarantee. This post is all about the dynamics and assumptions of wound healing in T1D, what implicates wound healing, what promotes it, and those times beyond T1D that we need to listen to our own gut instincts. The long road of injury My right foot has plagued me for a full year now. It feels like plantar fasciitis, but on the top of the foot, not the bottom. As soon as I felt the pain, I started going to physio, a podiatrist, and my family doctor.  I had shock wave therapy, heat and ice therapy, cupping on my calves, and massage therapy. I refused IMS because I’ve

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Diabetes Perfection: lessons learned from a past directive

Diabetes, Diabetes Dietitian, Registered Dietitian

Once upon a time, like decades ago, a wee Katie was diagnosed with diabetes and healthcare instituted perfection as the goal, only to realize, many years later, that T1D perfection is not possible. This post is all about Katie’s journey to the non-perfectionist way of managing type-1 diabetes.

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