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Why Live Life in Fear When You Can Live it to the Fullest

I heard this statement from a person at the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference in Orlando Florida this week. “I refuse to let diabetes dictate what I do”. I like that saying and I like it a lot.  It sort of summed up what thousands of people heard this week at this, the 18th […]

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Yeah, But….But…They’re on Immunosuppression…..Let’s Just Take a Look….

When it comes to research, there are so many occurrences simultaneously that it’s very difficult, at times, to keep one’s hand on the pulse of so much activity. When it comes to the notion of research in our diabetes world, there is something I have noticed that I want to address. It’s this notion of […]

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A Line from an Award Winning Play…….Describes Life.

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”   One of my favorite plays to both read and to have performed is Thornton WiIder’s Our Town.  Pictured above from over 35 years ago, this one line still resonates with me so many years after I played George, in a truly wonderful production.  How […]

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Please DEAR GOD, What Will it Take……UK Tribunal Hears of Death Due to Missed DX T1D.

I AM SO ANGRY.  She is gone.  It happened in 2012.  Now a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, UK, is hearing the case to see what can be done about it.  Claire Taylor was a talented dancer and baker who wanted a career as a dietitian as her older brother Andrew had Type 1 […]

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Impossible………Really Means “I’m-Possible”…….to Make a Difference.

I’m always touched by the strength of families who do so much to make “Hope” a reality.  The biggest hope I will always have is for a cure for this disease.  I know, I know, I KNOW so many say that they are tired of hearing about a cure.  It has been promised so long.  […]

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Parents, Like Protecting Lions, are the Diabetes ‘Blue’ Circle of Life

The call comes in. Another child is diagnosed with type one diabetes. Another family is impacted and changed forever. The call comes in. I’m surely not an island when it comes to this type thing, many take the call when it  happens.  We have been there.  We become the ‘one’ people call for whatever the […]