Have you ever stopped and actually tried to figure out how we do exactly what we do every day when dealing with our child’s diabetes? I mean, imagine yourself before diagnosis; did you ever think you would be doing what you are doing today? When the doctor ran down the list of all diabetes management […]
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Every time I see an ’11’ I cannot help but think of the two towers in lower Manhattan. When it has a ‘September’ before it, it brings me back to a time of not only incredible pain but also incredible human spirit. That day, was today. I was there. I have often said that I […]
If you work with your hands long enough, you become calloused. If you have 3 kids, chances are when the first one dropped their binky, pacify, woot-woot from their mouth and it hit the floor; you cleaned it, sterilized it, got it cool again and gave it back to your child—when the third child dropped […]
I have heard this statement a million times. “We need…..” In reference to the diabetes community; we need a really good spokesperson; we need an ice bucket-type challenge, and other things…we need…we need….we need……….uhm……..not really. We need to pull the weight ourselves……..all of us. Mary Tyler Moore has given tirelessly of her entire career to the […]
There is a trail at the end of my block. My street ends and there is a big hill and bike riders love riding up and continuing on the trail on the other side. It can be a bit of a challenge to navigate. Any car who dares go where they are not allowed, will […]
I find it interesting that we become absolutely livid over the fact that a missed-diagnosis can happen with diabetes and yet, when something happens in our child’s life regarding their health we immediately ‘chalk it up’ to it being caused by diabetes and figure it ‘just comes with the territory’. My point: we do not automatically become medical […]