If you ever want to start a discussion, a very lively discussion; all one needs to do is to enter a popular FB page or a popular blog and start off a comment with your opinion in the following way: “As a lifelong Republican I feel that Obama……” or “As a lifelong Democrat I can tell […]
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Where are the Daddies?
As one looks across the diabetes landscape, it is more than obvious that there is a missing link to the family dynamic in dealing with diabetes. Where are the daddies? Now hold on a second, I’m not saying that dads are missing altogether and I’m not saying that dads do not do a lot. But would […]
As I bought a coffee this week, standing around the coffee island in my local 7-11, a young man (early twenties) walked in with a baseball cap turned to one side. He was pouring his coffee when another man in a delivery uniform entered. Without exaggeration, the conversation resembled this: After a hand shake and a chest […]
Well it is safe to say, by the thousands of people who read and responded to my last article, that we all pretty much have begun a day as I wrote about; in the same manner, at one point or another. It is my hope that the moment is short-lived. As a parent we have many different […]
I hate diabetes. I came out of the shower, shaved, and got dressed. A normal day. As, by habit, I went to the bedroom window and looked out. I do that every morning. We live on a dead-end and there is nothing but wooded area across the street and to the sides of our home. Many […]
In the words of my dear friend, and colleague in this diabetes battle, Charlie Rizzo; “I have to do this.” I have always loved that phrase. I do. I, as well as many of you, are drawn to place ourselves in the armor of battle to take on whatever cause that becomes real for us in our […]