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		<title>Healing through Writing (and other forms of creativity)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing my book was a transformative process for me. There were times when I got teary talking to the nearly 100 women I interviewed as they shared stories about the challenges and triumphs of life with diabetes. There were many women who told me they were surprised by how emotional it was to share their &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/27/healing-through-writing-and-other-forms-of-creativity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1511&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Ever-Expanding Omnipod Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got my latest bill from Omnipod and it&#8217;s up to $1500. Yikes. They have me set up on a payment plan of $50 a month so if I don&#8217;t order any more pods, it&#8217;ll take me more than 2 years to pay it off. Of course I will be ordering more pods, in fact &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/27/my-ever-expanding-omnipod-bill/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1502&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Expectancy on the Rise for type 1 diabetes</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/26/life-expectancy-on-the-rise-for-type-1-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alsmercer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to share good news and this recent research shows that the life span of people with diabetes has increased. Check it out: Mysteries remain in disease progression of extreme type 1 diabetes. &#8220;&#8221;Recent study results indicate that the life expectancy of those diagnosed with type 1 diabetes has dramatically increased during a 30-year &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/26/life-expectancy-on-the-rise-for-type-1-diabetes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running with the Omnipod</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/25/running-with-the-omnipod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the time when I am running, I feel strong, healthy and powerful. I am fast as I run through the slowly waking neighborhoods surrounding our house. The streets are dark and sometimes, the newspaper delivery guy in his small red car speeds past, tossing papers in their blue plastic onto the wet from &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/25/running-with-the-omnipod/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1500&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnancy and Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/24/pregnancy-and-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alsmercer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I could become pregnant with my first son my endo said I had to get my A1c below 7. I remember feeling defensive (how dare he!?). It was the first time someone told me I couldn&#8217;t do something because I had diabetes. I was ready to have a baby now! Why did I have &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/24/pregnancy-and-diabetes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1491&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>re-Defining Diabetes&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/24/re-defining-diabetes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to clarify my mission for this blog, I&#8217;ve changed the look around again. I hope it&#8217;s not confusing&#8230;I&#8217;m still trying to find a theme that is visually pleasing and not too busy. I also have given the blog the title: re-Defining Diabetes because that is my goal. I want to transform the &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/24/re-defining-diabetes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1483&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Insulin Anniversary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alsmercer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 7 year old is working on a 100 year project for school, so this morning we googled &#8220;100 year old inventions&#8221; and I realized that 90 years ago today insulin was used to treat patients with type 1 diabetes. (Unfortunately I can&#8217;t use that for his project, we&#8217;re off by 10 years and he&#8217;d &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/23/happy-insulin-anniversary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1469&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(in search of) Peace &amp; Quiet in an Extroverted World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alsmercer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article the other week in the New York Times called: The Rise of the New Groupthink by Susan Cain. She writes, Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted, according to studies &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/22/in-search-of-peace-quiet-in-an-extroverted-world/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1461&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling to California and Finding my Way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/21/traveling-to-california-and-finding-my-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alsmercer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I flew to San Francisco this week to meet with Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine to discuss a job opportunity. My aunt lives in Mill Valley, and offered to pay for my trip. I flew out, leaving my 3 boys and husband behind, thinking that this would be the perfect job. I&#8217;d written a few &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/21/traveling-to-california-and-finding-my-way/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Day Ever, why numbers shouldn&#8217;t matter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/21/1445/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally wrote this post for Diabetes Sisters in 2008 and am re-posting it because it&#8217;s a good reminder to me of how competitive diabetes can be. &#8220;What&#8217;s your A1c?&#8221; people ask and I feel defensive. &#8220;What&#8217;s your blood sugar?&#8221; And I have the urge to hide my meter&#8230;These are personal questions and the simple &#8230; <a href="http://amystockwellmercer.com/2012/01/21/1445/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amystockwellmercer.com&amp;blog=883427&amp;post=1445&amp;subd=alsmercer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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