DiabetesDad
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Life was normal. Perhaps a trip shopping or a relatives house. Your child starts to complain about stomach aches, nausea, but the flu has been going around.It’s just the flu honey.Yeah, the flu I’m sure.But the clock is ticking. Your child is home from school.This is different, honey. I should take her to the doctor’s […]
The quiet was very loud in the waiting room. The employee awaited the turn to ‘face the music’. 2019 was not as nervous as when he heard the yelling when 2018 left last year, the yelling was scary as the Boss rarely yelled, but yelling occurred as 2018 was ushered out….it was left to 2019, […]