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This November: Don’t Just Educate THOSE WHO ALREADY KNOW!!!!!!

Education. We see it all the time.  The outcry for better education in so many areas.  Campaigns, ideas, thoughts, outreach, anything that can be tried is tried.  As many creative ideas that take the turn where some get little attention and some get a lot of attention.  Some are liked, some are controversial. Everyone looks […]

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Has FB Become our Refrigerator for Showing Our Kids’ Achievements?

This weekend as Saturday moves into Sunday, we change our clocks back one hour.  One Hour?  What would you do if you could change back the hours of your clock? I have asked many people with diabetes this question and many times I’m told, most often, that they could not imagine who they would be […]

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CGM? Insulin Pump?…..Is it JUST the Parent’s Decision?

I wear glasses for reading.  I hate them.  I hate that my age caught up with me and those letters became fuzzier and fuzzier until the inevitable became the reality…..I got glasses.  I hate wearing something on my body that was not born with me into this world. I’m sure you can see where this is […]

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Halloween, Diabetes……Be Afraid, Very Afraid…….REALLY?????

This week is Halloween.  Halloween means so much to kids.  Our kids with diabetes are no exception.  I remember when Kaitlyn was younger and many neighbors bought stickers and toys for Kaitlyn; “…I did not know what to get for her.” People can surely be wonderful.  We were discussing this weekend, over coffee, that each year there was […]

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Good A1C??????….Don’t be So Quick to Jump Up and Down.

I have written, on many occasions, how an A1C should be used as a gauge in our children’s diabetes tool box (or for yourself if you live with it every day 🙁  sorry).  I have constantly stated that it is a gauge to be watched and adjusted but not to live by the results and beat […]

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Canada Reminds Us…A Letter To Our Elected Officials…Do You Remember?

My article yesterday was to our friends in Canada.  I received a message of thanks from someone and she added this at the end of the message: “…..the leaders of our three parties shared public hugs and well wishes(in our current government, this is totally rare- they’re usually verbally fighting)….” As we get closer to our […]