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How to Neutralize the Grim Reaper………Live Now

If there is one thing I have noticed in life, it is that in death, we go it alone.  Millionaire, pauper, movie star, criminal, politician, blue-collar worker, and everything in between.  There will come a day we will all draw our last breath and everything we were in our lifetime will be left behind as […]

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Is SUCK IT UP too Rough to Ask……..What’s the Alternative?

I’m not so sure if it is the social media being so readily available or if people just like to gripe more……..not exactly sure which it is. I read people who are so exhausted because they stayed up all night………….again with a child’s low blood sugar; I read people who are distraught because they hide […]

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Worse than Falling Off the Horse………I Missed CWD FFL

I have successfully landed in the land of physical therapy and am officially ‘post-op’.  At an eventual time in the not too distant future, I will land on my feet again….hopefully better than new; or at least better than my pre-op status. I have learned that I’m not a good patient. I find it hard […]

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Major Surgery…….will be Back in August

I’m recovering from surgery and there will be no new DiabetesDad articles during the month of July—–see you in August. Much love always, Tom

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When Life Takes a Drastic Downturn

 It’s a very humbling experience to be placed in a position that everything that you need to do….for you…..must be done by someone else.   Such was the case recently, the particulars will remain private but the bottom line, I was left in a state that I was completely at the mercy of those around me.  […]

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Lisa Awards 2019, Powerhouses in Our Diabetes World and One Special Son

Ten years are a long time.  I just cannot believe that ten years have gone by that our sweet Lisa left this world.  But she went out with a voice shouting from the mountaintops and it is in the memory of that voice that I keep the promise I gave to my Little Brother (honorary), […]