Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 1: Where This Started
Twenty-five years ago I wrote the first guide to fasting with Type 1, and my Rav told me to call it back. This is how it started — and what he put in writing three years ago.
Personal Experience
Tandem
My Daughter Is Back on Tandem
My daughter went back from iLet to the Tandem this week. A mother wrote in that I have been unfair to Tandem – and she has a point. What I got wrong, what I still think, and exactly how I am going to try to make Control-IQ do what we want.
Friday Feedback Forum
Friday Feedback Forum — The Secret: Week Two
Eighteen letters on the secrecy series. The man whose life changed when he stopped, the wife who picked up that he was hiding something before he told her, the mouse and the cat, and the boy who said yes to a shidduch because of a seventh grade classroom.
Secrecy
The Secret, Part Five: The Whole Case in One Place
Eight arguments in one place, so a parent, a mechanech or a Rav can read one thing instead of four. The boy in a London yeshiva whose secret almost got him sent home, and what to say to a family that has been told by a Rav to keep it quiet.
Secrecy
The Secret, Part Four: Shidduchim — The Answers
A father asked me to my face: why should I take for my son a girl with a health condition? What Reb Don Segal ruled about the secret and about when it is said, why the parents who hide it are doing a calculation on Hashem’s behalf, and the answer to "but what about our other children."
AID Systems
One Rise, Three Causes: Dawn Phenomenon, Foot-on-the-Floor, and Coffee
You wake up at 95, eat nothing, and twenty minutes later you are 125 and still climbing. Three separate things sit behind that rise — your internal clock, the moment your feet hit the floor, and the coffee — and each one is met differently.
Secrecy
The Secret: Your Letters
Fourteen letters from readers, and my answers. A mother who names the process nobody had named. A woman who has not been to shul on Yom Kippur in five years. A text message that ended one family's secret in three days. And a member who says the diabetes is what brought her shidduch.
Secrecy
The Secret, Part Three: Shidduchim, and What Actually Happens
A woman kept it secret for twenty-four years, and a cousin told her chosson days before the engagement. A father who was certain a Rebbe had ruled it, until he hadn't. And the one time a secret nearly did cost a shidduch — over a single number.
Secrecy
The Secret, Part Two: The First Week
A letter written thirty-one years ago by a five-year-old who taught himself to inject so his parents wouldn't have to. What gets decided in the first week after a diagnosis, why it almost never gets undone — and the classroom where a boy stood up when nobody expected him to.
Diabetes History
The Other Missing Hormone
A member asked about amylin — the hormone the beta cells release alongside insulin, and the one nobody ever replaced. Why it came off the market, and what happened when I ran it through a second pump in 2005.
Friday Feedback Forum
Friday Feedback Forum — Post #200: Your Stories
I handed Post #200 to you and asked for your stories. Twenty arrived — from a four-year-old's own words to a bubby looking back across decades. Here they are.
Community Feedback
Post #200 — This One Is All About You
You sent your suggestions for post 200 — and one of them changed my mind about what post 200 should be. So here it is, handed over to you: tell us your story.