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When a Pro Ball Player Walked Off the Mound and Into the Hearts of Kids with T1D.

I just love….LOVE; when someone in professional sports, who has achieved playing at the highest level and does it with type 1 diabetes (T1D), takes the time to encourage kids to do the same.  It is one of the favorite things about being in this diabetes world.  I try to arrange it any chance I can.  Our […]

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My Quest Will Always be to Find that Cure, No Matter How Far.

Yeah, I get it.  The many years we have heard it.  The idea that pharma companies or the government is behind the stopping of it.  The notion that we should not get our hopes up.  The idea that it could never happen.  I have been at this for over 23 years and the one thing that […]

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We Lose a POWERHOUSE; and I’m Sad, So Deeply Sad. RIP Kitty.

I always LOVED this picture of Kitty.  The microphone was always as symbolic as it was practical describing Kitty because if there was a person with a TRUE voice in the diabetes community; it was Kitty Castellini.  Thousands of hours of broadcasts and tireless efforts in advocating for you, for me, for us in the diabetes community. […]

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NEWSBREAK: Incredible News in the Battle Against Missed Diagnosis of T1D

A year.  A full year since I met Anna at T1DExchange and shared with her the vision to try to end, halt, or even slow down the missed diagnosis of T1D.  I needed help.  She listened, she asked a million questions. I shared my town hall meeting survey with my questions.  “It’s not official, they […]

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A Group in Myrtle Beach, SC, Reminds Us All Why We Ever Started.

Yeah, it’s a walk.  Or a Walkathon.  A walk to…..  A walk for…..You know…….a walk. But do you really know?  Do we REALLY know? The ultimate ‘grassroots’ event is the walkathon.  Created, according to some accounts, by the March of Dimes Organization a million years ago.  Walks do not JUST happen.  They are hugely labor intensive.  […]

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NEWSBREAK: Restaurant Sign…..What Would You Say??????

….and there you go!  Saw this story reported by Jordan Davidson who writes for “The Mighty” who states this sign was posted in a restaurant in Watertown, NY called ____________________.  Well let’s just say there is a pig pen there in the name. No comment—–it says it all right there if you ask me. This […]