Moms are real special people. She was about six years old when her dad took her shopping for a Mother’s Day gift. “Pick out something, but make sure she will like it.” This was the only charge given by the dad. She looked and looked, and already at this young age, it was clear that […]
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Wonderful and talented Wendy Rose shares today in her CANDY HEARTS blog that her child will be entering a research project regarding Ed Damiano’s Bionic Pancreas. Do you know what that means? I ask you that because as Wendy describes the excitement of what her child will experience, it is also a research project. And […]
“We are what we eat.” Are we? Of course we aren’t but the saying, which has been around for a long time, does have some meaning to it. Believe it, don’t believe it; your choice no harm, no foul. “Diabetes does not cause complications, diabetes out-of-control does” is a different story because it is not just […]
Being new. No one likes it. New at a school, new in a neighborhood, new in a grade, new even at CWD Friends for Life. There are ribbons worn by ‘First Timers’ at this event so people know that they can help them should their paths cross. There are ways to help people and there […]
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! I am a tad angry at myself. I am a fairly newbie at wearing glasses, more often than not. For the millionth time I have stepped into the shower with my glasses on. I have done it before and I decided to ask if I am the only one who does that? Do you ever […]
There seems to be so many things we feel guilty about when it comes to diabetes, isn’t there? In addition to blaming ourselves for the very cause of diabetes, as if we are really to blame, I have witnessed a ton of self blaming that is about as counterproductive a process as I have ever witnessed. The biggest, […]