DiabetesDadI bet you really wish you could say that, don’t you? Imagine a life with no more 504 plans. (for those who are not aware, a 504 plan is a plan created in cooperation with the public school systems in the United States ensuring that our kids with diabetes are ‘looked-after’ in the appropriate manner—a very simplistic definition […]
Plain and simple….Ray Allen is a diabetes dad. Plain and simple Ray Allen scored a three pointer to put last game to over time. Plain and simple Ray Allen is on the NBA Champions’ Miami Heat. Plain and simple, the Diabetes Research Institute is proud to have them involved with us and congratulates Ray on […]
Every hour that ‘ticks’ by each and every day; we have to be ready to grab the emergency glucagon. When this one expired, Jill left it for me, which means she took the last one, and used it ‘to practice’. Practice. She has written the note numerous times since September 26th, 1992. We sort of have […]
This is from my good friend Pamela Loebner—-a woman I have known for some time–she ‘gets it’. Her writing says it all and needs to be shared. Pamela Kessler Loebner 11 years. Who is counting? Obviously, I am. I can’t help it. A lot of water has gone under the bridge in 11 years. 11 years […]
Summer. Well here it comes fast and furious. Blockbuster movies, warmer weather, HOT weather, graduating seniors, beach trips, summer trips, and…………diabetes. Those of us with experience know the many pitfalls surrounding heat and the havoc it can play on blood glucose numbers and diabetes. There is hot, and there is ‘diabetes hot’. Both hot weather and […]
Gifts my dad gave me and how they relate to life and diabetes: …..don’t start something you won’t finish. I will stop this diabetes journey when my kids are able to and not one second before. …..if you believe in something, say it, do not spend the wasted time defending it because if it is […]