Basal Testing: A New Kind of Torture

Just when I thought I’d experienced every indignity and inconvenience this disease could dish up, along comes basal testing.I’ve had the Big D for almost seven years now, and I’ve always been told never to skip meals (a good thing too, because I n…

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