Chrissie in Belgium

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Chrissie's Diabetes Blog

About me

Gender	Female
Astrological Sign	Scorpio
Industry	Accounting
Location	Brussels, Belgium
Introduction	T1 diagnosed October 1962 at the age of 10. Pumping since Sep 2004. Cozmo pump. Born in Wisconsin, USA. Moved to Sweden in 1969. Currently living in Belgium. A more complete description is found in my very first blog entry! I LIKE discussing things - so please leave your comments. I will reply back! The point of this blog is to encourage discussion and to really show what is is like to live with diabetes. The good and the bad - BOTH!
Interests	Art, books, dogs, people, places and a million other things!
Favorite Movies	Dancer in the Dark, Prêt-moi Ta main(Eric Lartigau), Mon Meilleur Ami(Patrice Leconte), Léon(Luc Besson), Le Fabuleux Déstin de Amélie Poulain(Jean-Pierre Jeunet), L'un Reste L'autre Part(Claude Berri)
Favorite Music	Alizée, Cardigans, Mylene Farmer, Feist, Norah Jones, Garou, Diana Kroll, Madonna, Amanda Marshall, Florent Pagny, Simon and Garfunkel
Favorite Books	Ahab's Wife or the Star-Gazer(Sena Jeter Naslund), Bel Canto(Ann Patchett), The Book Thief (Markus Zusak), Cracking India (Bapsi Sidhwa), The Fall of a Sparrow(Robert Hellenga), Gröna Kammarn(Björn von Rosen), House of Spirits (Isabelle Allende), House of Splendid Isolation(Edna O'Brien), The Kite Runner(Khaled Hosseini), The Lemon Tree(Sandy Tolan), Marley and Me(Grogan), The Man Who Planted Trees(Jean Giono), The Marshal and the Murderer(Magdalen Nabb), The Master Butcher's Singing Club(Louise Erdrich), Middlesex(Jeffrey Eugenides), Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran(Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt), A Long Way Gone(Ishmael Beah), Olga's Story - One Women's Extrordinary Journey Through Revolution War and Exile(Stephanie Williams), Le Petit Prince(Antoine de Saint-Exupery), The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog(Mo Willems), Shadow Lines(Amitav Gosh), A Short History of Tractors in Ukrania(Marina Lewycka), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan(Lisa See), A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini), Three Bags Full(Leonie Swann), The Unbearable Lightness of Being(Milan Kundera), Water for Elephants(Sara Gruen)

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