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What is your FAVORITE Diabetes Word or Phrase?

What is your favorite diabetes phrase or word?  You know the one you saw and made you say, now that says it all.  One of my favorites…….and it may be taken as a tad crude by some, I guess and I apologize in advance, but I just love the word “diabadass”. It is an edgy […]

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“Mommy, Why Am I Different?”……..THE Question We Get Asked.

We have all heard THAT phrase at one time or another.  “Why can’t I be like other kids?”  It goes through us like a sword, doesn’t it?  Sometimes it is followed by tears, sometimes a hug, we stay strong. We die a little on the inside also, don’t we? We have addressed this issue two […]

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Everyone is “Doing the Mr. Awesome” in Honor of an Incredible Child………You Can Too.

Unless you have been somewhere else for the last few days, and NOT online, you have been missing one of the truest forms of viral online frenzies, ever.  It’s awesome. Or to be more correct; Mr. Awesome. Mr. Awesome is an online campaign in honor of North Miami’s Calder Sloan, a 7-year-old human-dynamo who lost […]

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a 17-Year-Old Who Would Have Taken Action Over a Blue Candle

Twenty years ago today.  Diagnosis?  Worse. It was a Monday. I was the Director of the (at that time) JDF (now JDRF) Long Island Office.  For a chapter that was not in a major city, we were hugely successful with one of the most successful chapters in the country.  The volunteers (and many, now, lifelong friends) […]

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They Go Through the Bad as Well……..WITH Diabetes.

When is enough, enough?  It just seems to me that the resilience and positive-ness of our kids gets tested time and time again………and again.  Our kids, sometimes, seem to bounce-back from almost anything.  I once wrote an article that referenced the fact that all of the accomplishments are our kids have done, always seem to come […]

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Voices to be Heard…….This One Will Make You Think!!!!

Please read each one of these, I have copied them exactly as written: “Nobody should have to go into a bathroom to……” “………you don’t want your kids seeing that because you have the daunting task of explaining…..” “……She could have taken him to the car……” “…….find it irritating to read many of these moronic comments…… […]