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PART II: Your Baby Has Diabetes…….Looking Back is Good to Do……But…..

As a follow-up to my last article……it’s time to look back.  Whether you have been at this ‘diabetes thing’ for one week, one month, two years, or two decades; it is important to realize how far y you have come since you first heard the words; “….we are done testing, your child has type 1 […]

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Your Baby has T1 Diabetes……..I have Stood Where You Have Stood.

I have stood where you stood. It’s late at night, or early morning depending how you look at it, the clock chimes 3:00 am, the blood sugar just will not rise.  An hour after what you think is an endless supply of juice boxes and other ‘stuff’, the glucometer says 52; you cry. I have […]

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FOR THE RECORD: I do not want to play sugar_______ anything on FB, so don’t ask. I do not want to play candy crush either, thank you. I do not want to meet you in any fictitious games. I don’t care who I was in 200 A.D. I don’t care what movie I am (what […]

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AP/Bionic Pancreas or a Cure????? Whoever said it was an ‘OR’???

I have always found it very interesting listening or reading the discussions regarding research and regarding management tools.  Somewhere, somehow, the word got out there that some things are an ‘either’/’or’ decision. Are they? If it is all the same to anyone else, I am waiting and holding my breath for the AP and/or bionic […]

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When a Little Girl has Something to say to Her Daddy

She does not look like that anymore.  she is much older.  At twenty-four, actually, a woman now.  But in a father’s eyes, when his daughter (especially if it is his only daughter) asks him something, says something, does something; the glasses that no one sees are the glasses he sees through and it is the […]

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Tara; that is Spelled H-E-R-O. A Young Lady Who Put it All Out There for the World to See!!!!!

There is a difference between T1 & T2 diabetes.  I have stated a zillion times, that if you have something you strongly believe in, “Don’t Do Nothing”.  Seems a 7th grader decided that she wanted to do something about it.  Behind that absolutely gorgeous smile is a young lady who went on a mission with […]