A friend of mine asked me recently if I still get up in the middle of the night to check our children’s BG numbers? My answer was only if we feel there might me circumstances that happened during the day that might add to the possibilities of them running low. SInce she asked […]
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His efforts are tireless and his reputation well-known not only to his worldwide colleagues but many PWDs and to parents who wait for a cure. He works in the lab, lectures worldwide and yet, still finds the time to speak to those with a full heart investment interest in finding a cure for diabetes. Here he […]
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Passionate People, We.
5:30 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 […]
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A Letter from a Mom……..
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 […]
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I Was There.
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 […]