Newly Diagnosed

When you’re newly diagnosed, doctor’s appointments can feel overwhelming. You’re nervous, there’s a lot of information flying at you, and it’s easy to walk out realizing you forgot to ask the things that were keeping you up at night. So here’s the fix I wish I’d had: a ready-made list of questions to ask your […]

When I was first diagnosed, the numbers were the scariest part. I heard terms like A1C, fasting glucose and milligrams per deciliter. People threw these terms at me like I was supposed to already know them, and nobody slowed down to explain what any of it actually meant. So here’s the plain language version the