Welcome. Here is your ticket to enter a fabulous world. I am absolutely exhausted. I am absolutely exhilarated. I am absolutely thrilled. For the past few months, we Suffolk County LIONs Diabetes Education Foundation members have been working on a project to raise money to do what we do to help people with diabetes. Yesterday we […]
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The Dream Must Stay Alive!!!
I received so many messages yesterday paying tribute to the Luries with news of Dame Carol Lurie’s death . She was truly, as I stated, a powerhouse. As I was driving yesterday I had an incredible sorrow in my heart. I AM sorry Carol is gone but my sorrow was that when she sat with Lee […]
When I was a staff person at what was then called the JDF (didn’t know that did you?) I was at a meeting and the woman at the microphone said with that incredible smile; “Lock the doors because no one is getting out until they commit to this.” That woman was Dame Carol Lurie. Last […]
I started crying in the car thinking about my birthday. I know it’s still two weeks away, but I never thought I’d live to see 40. I was sure I’d be dead by now, and I don’t know how I’m not, but here I am. Lee Ann Thill wrote this on her FB page this […]
She didn’t have to write this. She did not have to be so honest and truthful. What she went through, is none of our business. What she goes through she shares. To feel sorry for her? Not in her make-up. AT ALL. To feel her pain? Nope. To display her hardship? Haven’t seen that yet. She […]
I have been reading lately that there is an idea floating around about attempting to change the names of the various disease states that fall under the parameters of diabetes. When it comes to a movement of this type, I would never be the one to tell anyone to stop something if it’s important enough. I would […]