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“Diabetes is a Blessing!”…..uhm….I Could Use Some Help with That!!!!

I have read, over the years, of people saying the following; “I look at diabetes coming into our household as a blessing”.  Over the years I have also read of the reasons people stated that diabetes was a ‘blessing’: “I have met such wonderful people”. “We would have been divorced.” “It made us all become […]

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It’s a Diabetes Thing…….'”NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE”.

People just do not understand.  Very few do, in fact. When I have to tend to my child, YOUR timing is not my timing; in fact, and we had to learn this, our timing IS NOT our timing.  If our child needs tending to, our world stops.  Period. I do not care if you get frustrated because […]

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No Diabetes. Not on this Day. Not Today. You Will Not Win!!!!!!

Dear Diabetes, I know it has been a while since we corresponded, there was no need.  But you thought you would win recently and it opened the door to once again remind you a little bit on who we are……..in case you had forgotten. We are a family of resolve.  We are a family of […]

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The Ring, or; Why Mom’s are the Best People on Earth

Moms are real special people. She was about six years old when her dad took her shopping for a Mother’s Day gift.  “Pick out something, but make sure she will like it.”  This was the only charge given by the dad. She looked and looked, and already at this young age, it was clear that […]

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A Child with Diabetes Embarks on a Journey…..We Should Thank Them All!!

Wonderful and talented Wendy Rose shares today in her CANDY HEARTS blog that her child will be entering a research project regarding Ed Damiano’s Bionic Pancreas. Do you know what that means? I ask you that because as Wendy describes the excitement of what her child will experience, it is also a research project.  And […]

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Time to Retire: ‘Diabetes Does Not Cause Complications, Diabetes-out-of-Control Does”!!!

 “We are what we eat.”  Are we?  Of course we aren’t but the saying, which has been around for a long time, does have some meaning to it.  Believe it, don’t believe it; your choice no harm, no foul. “Diabetes does not cause complications, diabetes out-of-control does” is a different story because it is not just […]