Diabetes

She’s got diabetes now, which means a fairly dramatic lifestyle change. It’s a chronic but manageable disease. Splenda is our new BFF.

I don’t know too much about the disease, but i’ll be learning a whole lot in the coming days. I’ll have to learn how to stab my girlfriend with a needle.

Thanks for the support, and extra thanks to Jeff for the zero-hour advice!

For more information on diabetes, check out:

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/faq/basics.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes

http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp

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