The village kids call him ‘Alto’. The Spanish translation is tall. But Jesse is much taller than just to play basketball. Jesse is much taller because when many people might shy away from this type of opportunity, Jesse embraced it. Embraced it indeed. Being in a village called Juan Dolio is not exactly the quick pace […]
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Kelly Close’s DiaTribe published a very interesting finding based on a recent study in Diabetes Care……it states (according to DiaTribe); “……..more US children and adolescents have been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in recent years: the disease’s annual prevalence in a large, insured population increased 53% between 2002 and 2013, from 1.48 to 2.33 cases […]
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A Message for You!!!!
A really good friend wished me a happy New Year and stated that the hope was that all my wishes would come true in 2016. Interesting concept. I found myself asking if I had ‘all my desires’ as a bucketful of wishes or is my wish the same as it was on September 26th, 1992, […]
As this year ends, I am still driven by how far this year has taken us in the battle against missing the diagnosis of T1D and the diagnosis while in DKA. It’s a battle that can be won. And THAT battle is a series of wars in every state. What can you do? I believe this battle […]
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Bye-Bye Bayer
Having two kids living with diabetes means I’m…..well the father of two children living with diabetes. As such, all sorts of things come to our house, mostly via the US Mail. We received a notice the other day that stated; Bayer AG (“Bayer”) is pleased to announce that it intends to sell its diabetes care […]
There is this commercial presently running on television in the United States. It’s a commercial warning that your child could be at a very high risk of a fatal disease by merely casual contact of their peers. At first I thought it was a fairly decent commercial warning of a potential hazard. Of course it was more. […]