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GO GET YOUR CHILD RIGHT NOW AND SHOW THIS TO THEM!!!!!

To anyone who has a child with diabetes that thinks they cannot make it in this world; that there are many things they cannot do, that diabetes will just hold them back…………just click the link below and enjoy watching what someone with diabetes can do……..in this young man’s life, diabetes stops him FROM NOTHING……..Period!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdUwvcXwZE (EDITOR’S NOTE—ORIGINAL VIDEO […]

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Did Today Just Suck for Anyone?

How bad is bad? Do you ever look in the mirror and say, “this cannot be any worse”? I remember one of our darkest hours; dark was dark compared to this dark.  We were shattered.  How could fate be so cruel. It was not long after that I was on a walk.  I remember crossing […]

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A Sunset to Relax My Mind at a Place Called Hofstra………Where Do You Go?

On the campus of Hofstra University stands six dormitories.  When I attended Hofstra they were identified with very unique and specific identities.  There was Tower A, B,C,D,E, and F.  I am happy to say that since I attended they have been given actual names. College is not easy.  WAS not easy and still is not easy today. When yesterday […]

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A 9/11 Memory Just Sent to Me…..12 Years Later….My Hands are Shaking!

On this, a special and incredible day of remembrance. After I wrote about it and it was sent to everyone this morning.   After working so hard over the years to push down so much of what I saw; to work so hard to place things in compartments in my mind and in my memory………this absolutely comes from the OMG […]

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Yeah, I was there! Never Forget………Have We?

Those who know me well know my story with 9/11.  The 36 hours I spent down there from 9/11 to 9/12 provided images that many could not have nightmares about.  It was a day that transformed my life, as it did for a grieving nation. Every where you look you see the date 9/11 with the […]

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Grieving Over Diabetes………Does it Go Away?

I remember hearing the incredible Dr. William Plonosky speak and when discussing diabetes and depression he stated that he would be a bit worried if someone was diagnosed with diabetes AND WAS NOT feeling any depression.  That always stuck with me.  Recently I saw a FB posting about grieving; when grieving should stop over the diagnosis […]