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How Smart are You???????

This weekend had me at the Children with Diabetes’ Focus on Technology in Crystal City Virginia or right next to Washington D.C.   In as much as i so enjoy speaking to these great people. I’m also always there to learn as well.  You can never have too much knowledge when it comes to diabetes, and I have […]

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What do you Choose?

How hard can it be to have diabetes?  Well for the person who lives with it, and many will tell you, they ‘just do’.  They do not think about it, although they never stop thinking about it.  I remember my daughter’s line when asked about her diabetes when a news team was doing story about […]

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STOP IT…….It Happened Again.

I was reading last night and again a mom wrote about coming from the Doctor and how upset she was because her child’s A1C was 8.2.  She tried everything and was so upset that the number ‘was not better’.  She realized how important the number was to her child and she felt like she failed again.  […]

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Invasion of the Test Strips…………RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my gosh.  They are everywhere.  You cannot get away.  You cannot hide.  Just when you think that you have completed the task and there are no more to be found, they come back to haunt you. You may run; you may try to distract; you may even hide your eyes; and you may clean […]

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I’m Done with the Mis-information and Bullying! Are You In?

In the wake of many of the responses and messages I personally received in the last few days; a thought has come into light that we should explore.  When it comes to diabetes, and not only what the media portrays, but in our everyday lives (and the lives of our kids), are we being bullied? Bullying. […]

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Hansel and Gretel…All Together Now…..S-T-I-N-K-O!

The poor boy has been given the ‘sugar sickness’ from a deranged (are there any other types in the ‘bad’ category) witch that forced him to eat ‘evil candy’ with a result of injections needed daily for the rest of his life or he will ‘die on the spot’.   Such is the poor plight of one […]