DiabetesDadWow, that went fast. Today begins my second year and it is hard to believe that it was just one year ago I hit the ‘publish’ button and my first daily writing was posted. A whole year. I have written columns for years at dLife, but a year ago started my daily writings and it has been […]
I received this letter recently that was written over a year ago. “Di’ shared it with me about two weeks ago. Read it, it says it all. Dear Mom and Dad, I saw the look in your eyes today. I’m sorry that I did not have as much time as I would have liked to spend […]
Why do they do it? Why, despite their diabetes, to individuals choose to laugh in the face of challenges and do the unthinkable? Why do they climb mountains, ride bikes on death-defying terrain, undertake insane miles of running-riding-swimming in one outing, play professional sports, and push themselves beyond the limit of both exhaustion and imagination? Yesterday, […]
School. I just love seeing all of the pictures posted of kids at their first day fo school. There is a ‘newness’ to it, isn’t there? The year begins full of hope and we, as parents, are ever watchful to notice that indeed our children are growing up. And that is a fabulous thing. With […]
I had a great conversation with someone recently, during my travels, that was incredibly enlightening. “Ed” was diagnosed when he was 22, he is now around 35. He told me that his diabetes is in very good control and he wears an insulin pump and a cgm. When speaking of my kids and my involvement, he […]
…your child, you, your mother, your father, and any loved one you have with any form of diabetes…..this pertains to you What if you knew that the accuracy of your child’s glucometer was wrong. Worse yet, what would you do if you found out after 4 months that the glucometer you were using was wrong? What […]