Wow. Talk about a world changing and lives interrupted. There are a million ways you can find out about the Corona-Virus as it relates to diabetes. Punch those two words into any search engine and you will find all the information you want……and even a good deal that you probably don’t want. New normal? I […]
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She is Riveting
Rosie the Riveter? Ever see that picture? She actually was not the original but she is surely the most well-known. The one we know today came to represent the empowerment of women. The ‘one we know’ was commissioned by the Westinghouse Company in 1942 to boost morale in the company. But Rosie has come to […]
If Only Biology was a Device
I have often wished that that ‘biological’ make-up of our kids living with diabetes were the same make-up of a diabetes management device. My daughter was one of the first kids wearing an insulin pump on Long Island. Hard to think that the original proto-type for an insulin pump looked like the one in the […]
Whether you have been in this diabetes world for a day or ninety years, the things you have gone through have created volumes of incredible and useful knowledge. Much of that experience can help others, but we also ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS must remember that it very well may be that it is only […]
Are You a Mom to a Young T1D?
Dear Mom (Dad’s Too),I have a message for you.You may not know me……you may have read something I may have had something to do with regrading diabetes…….you may not have read anything at all. In 1992, at the age of two, my little girl was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I have stood in your […]
Different Races, All Trying to Help
A few people I know attempted to do something this weekend that, I guess, one could say that they had no business to attempt. Both had to do with feats of running. Both have ailments or other reasons why their bodies are not meant to run. I have no idea how long, or even if, […]