DiabetesDad5:30 am: I am on a shuttle on the way to Newark Airport. Other businesspeople are on the shuttle bus as well; six of them together, me by myself. They talked little of what their job was but I gathered they were regional managers of some sort of retail store. I could tell you […]
I received this letter today from Marie—she is a mom to a Max who has diabetes. Max is just one of the coolest kids I have ever met and I’m so proud to call him my friend. As mostly everyone knows, I work at the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, and it is people like Marie […]
It was a day just like this day in New York; absolute blue skies. It also was a Tuesday. I’m not going to rehash every little detail, they’ve all been reported; most everyone knows them all too well. I can still smell the smell in my nostrils; it’s like none other I have had before. I […]
Just no way. No way. The second child diagnosed with diabetes (not even to mention those who have 3 or more)? That subject was news in the DOC (diabetes online community) last week as a few people seemed to have received this horrible news. I remember the day our second was diagnosed like it was […]
Our Kids. Wow the things they do. The things they put up with every day. Whether they have diabetes or they do not have diabetes; the fact that diabetes is in our households makes them live each and every day in a way that no one will understand but us; their parents. The new norm […]
Hurricane Isaac slammed into the United States leaving behind a land of ruin and devastation. A while ago I reached out to the LIONs Club International Foundation(a service organization that helps those in need and also has diabetes as a priority)(LCIF). The LIONs have boots-on-the-ground around the world and the idea was that if there was […]