DiabetesDadAs 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 […]
So a friend of mine from my days in government (not connected to the diabetes world) and I were having a discussion. The discussion ‘morphed’ into the recent events surrounding the daughter of the former Vice President, Liz, and the diagnosis of her teenage daughter with t1 diabetes. “So are you guys going after her?” “Going after […]