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PLEASE Learn this Phrase: “Ask Your Medical Team.”

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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Living Life is so Much More than Diabetes…..NEVER Forget It!

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 […]

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Holidays, Diabetes, Your Child, Relatives — Feeling the Stress?

So you are home enjoying the holiday preparations when your doorbell rings. You answer the door and the deliveryperson is there with a box from a relative. The size of the box surely peaks your interest and you carry your new found delivery to the kitchen table and carefully open the box. As you open […]

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Our Back-ups had Back-ups

When Kaitlyn was first diagnosed, and the credit for this falls squarely on Jill, our back-up plans for Kaitlyn’s diabetes had back-up plans. When it was her glucometer, there was the one she carried, the one in Jill’s pocketbook, as well as the one in the car. There were always three different angles to the […]