There will usually come a time when a child with diabetes will say to their parents, “Leave me alone, I got this.” Horror…..right? I always loved the picture I included……..I have no idea if this kid ‘has this’ or not……but he surely looks like he has the confidence………but it surely is scary. Diabetes can […]
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Registration is open here in Florida. I have often discussed CWD’s Friends for Life…..I have been a faculty member there since its inception; it’s an honor I cherish. They have an annual conference each year in July in Orlando and thousands attend. They run local weekend conferences as well. There are scholarships available for families who […]
Camps. Rafting trips. Summer competitions. Day trips away. Over night trips. Trips over a few days. When our kids with diabetes partake in these events it makes the anxiety level go through the roof…..right? We want them to flourish and grow but at the same time we want to parent-helicopter them and hover over them […]
Life changed for me in 2001, it was September 11th. I was there, for two days, I inhaled everything. We are America. We have problems today, just pick up a newspaper. Tensions racially, gender, sexual orientation. Rich. Poor. Wow. We are America. We have crime, and mixed opinions on guns and marriage. We have mixed […]
Unless you have been hiding in a cave or under a rock for the last few days, you completely understand the picture with this article today. Using this ‘real thing’ in the manner it was; not cool. I’m not going to mention the perpetrator, because they have received enough free coverage already. Many, many, people […]
How far are we to let ignorance go? Television show, campaign ads, movies, and just general ignorance of diabetes……..when do we do something ‘more-concrete’ to put a stop to it? Are we able to put a stop to it? A few years ago there was a huge brouhaha over some ‘diabetes things’ surrounding Paula Dean. Remember? […]