I’m Sure All Patient Concerns Are Absurd
© 2013 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com **Warning: This contains controversial statements and comments of unusual sarcasm. I recently attended the Diabetes Mine...
View ArticleViscerality
© 2014 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com Fear. We all have fears, especially ones about our health. Will I let my loved ones down because I failed to take good enough...
View ArticleResponding to the Response to the Re… Ah Crap, Just Read It
© 2014 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com Last week’s DOC response to Miss Manners advice to a diabetic traveler was often emotional but consistently said that her...
View ArticleCataracts are Depressing
© 2014 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com A few weeks ago, I wrote about needing cataract surgery and the fear that I had about it. The surgeries went well and I am the...
View ArticleWhat Doesn’t Make Diabetes Emotional?
© 2014 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com Some days it seems like everything about diabetes triggers something: frustration, anger, WTF, the despising of device alarms,...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Stigma
© 2012, 2014 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com ** There’s a lot of talk going on now about #Dstigma and this talk needs to happen. Along those lines I am reposting a...
View ArticleA Tale of Medicine X
Walking down the hall toward my first panel discussion on Chronic Illness and Depression (check it out below), I was feeling pretty anxious. While I’ve written extensively of my own experiences with...
View ArticleIt’s Been A While
Actually, it’s been a damn long while since I posted anything here. Good things are happening advocacy wise, I was named to the 2014 Medicine X Honor Roll and I’ll be part of a panel discussion on...
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© 2016 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com I’m not simply healthy or simply sick. I’m not simply good or simply bad. Not simply happy or simply sad. Good, bad, or...
View ArticleThinking Too Small
© 2016 Scott Strange, Strangely Diabetic and http://StrangelyDiabetic.com Sometimes I think we in the diabetes community, especially where technology and type 1 is involved, think way too goddamn...
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