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Kids Just Don’t Care Anymore?? That Phrase is Thrown Out the Window!!!

We hear it all the time.  Young people.  They lack enthusiasm.  They are lazy.  They have become cold.  They are too ‘into’ themselves.  They just don’t care. Well………tonight I experienced something that I wish so many could have witnessed; but more than that I wish everyone in the diabetes community could have witnessed.  Education for […]

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Do You Wait on Diabetes? Probably a Mistake!

If you are waiting on diabetes to have a ‘good’ day, you may be waiting a long, long time.  Over the years I have heard and/or read some of the following: “I sure hope diabetes behaves today.” “I hope diabetes gives me a break.” “Diabetes better be nice today.” ……..it won’t. Diabetes is a beast.  […]

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Ever Have a ‘Situation’ with YOUR Health Insurance Company?????

In life, many things are not as you would think.  The signs may point to one thing, but once you are ‘through the gate’ you find that it is something else altogether. I am contacted a lot about insurance companies.  What is covered, what is not covered.  Why are they so difficult to speak to?  […]

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What is the Stupidest Comment You EVER Heard Dealing with Diabetes?

 Do you hear people differently now that you have a child with diabetes?  How many times in the day do people say, “how are you?” DO they really mean, how are you?  Do they really want to hear how we are?  Is it ‘new language’ for just plain everyday, “Hi”?  If everything is fine, the quick […]

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NEWSBREAK: Interview with a REAL Winner…..Oh Yeah, He Won Daytona Too!!!

I had the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with NASCAR Xfinity Series ‘checker-flag’ recipient, Ryan Reed, shortly after his huge victory at Daytona National Speedway last weekend.  This remarkable young man is not only taking NASCAR by storm, he and his partners at Lilly Diabetes and The American Diabetes Association’s Drive To Stop Diabetes, are […]

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A Mom with a Newly Diagnosed Child…….Teaches an Important Reminder

I had the chance to speak to a new mom.  Well she is not a new mom, but a new mom where diabetes has become the new normal.  Let’s just call her ‘S’.  ‘S’ asked me to call her because she had questions about her nine-year-old who was diagnosed only a few weeks ago.  She […]