DiabetesDadI bet you really wish you could say that, don’t you? Imagine a life with no more 504 plans. (for those who are not aware, a 504 plan is a plan created in cooperation with the public school systems in the United States ensuring that our kids with diabetes are ‘looked-after’ in the appropriate manner—a very simplistic definition […]
Plain and simple….Ray Allen is a diabetes dad. Plain and simple Ray Allen scored a three pointer to put last game to over time. Plain and simple Ray Allen is on the NBA Champions’ Miami Heat. Plain and simple, the Diabetes Research Institute is proud to have them involved with us and congratulates Ray on […]
Every hour that ‘ticks’ by each and every day; we have to be ready to grab the emergency glucagon. When this one expired, Jill left it for me, which means she took the last one, and used it ‘to practice’. Practice. She has written the note numerous times since September 26th, 1992. We sort of have […]
I always get a kick when reading a press release about how diabetes is a burden. We have all read it somewhere and at some time or another. You know; a burden on the health system, a burden on the national budget, a burden which drug companies are addressing. I picture some man or woman, […]
I have no right to feel this way. I want to get that right out in the open at the onset. I mean what everyone does, they do because they can, do, or choose to do……or do they? I saw a name today, I do not want to mention where or how but they were speaking […]
Summer. Well here it comes fast and furious. Blockbuster movies, warmer weather, HOT weather, graduating seniors, beach trips, summer trips, and…………diabetes. Those of us with experience know the many pitfalls surrounding heat and the havoc it can play on blood glucose numbers and diabetes. There is hot, and there is ‘diabetes hot’. Both hot weather and […]