I have a good friend of mine. Let’s call her Marie. Actually that’s her name. Marie had this idea for an event to do in her home town in Connecticut. There is this incredible candy store in Ridgefield called Deborah Ann’s Chocolates. Many would call it a landmark in the community. The candy there is some of […]
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CGMs. Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are fabulous devices. They not only remotely give you an idea on your blood glucose number they also indicate where one is trending (blood sugar rising and/or dropping). The new Dexcom G4 Platinum looks to be a modern, thinner, easier to read, and more accurate CGM. The Dexcom website states […]
Upon diagnosis, kids feel all alone. Now that they have diabetes, and if no one else in the family has it, it becomes a stark reality that they will go it all alone….right? Eli Lilly as partnered with Disney to create Coco. Coco is a monkey character and she has T1 Diabetes and she is […]
It is a world of get ahead. Many times it is get ahead at any costs. Get one up on the ‘other guy’ so you can win. Not so for my Sunday dHero, a sibling to a brother with diabetes. As if it were not enough that he has agreed to take part in a […]
They are doing it for your kids, for mine, for theirs. They are doing it for a cure; they are doing it in memory. They are doing it with incredible fortitude. They are doing it with painful memories. They are doing it with incredible hope. They are pushing their bodies to the absolute physical limit. […]
He is a chef, author, and television personality. He is currently a host of AOL’s GMC “Trade Secrets” online show. He was diagnosed with diabetes at age 12. Where there are celebs with diabetes that do little or ‘the bare minimum’ he is a 180 degree opposite helping diabetes causes and speaking about his diabetes […]