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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #9 for D-Awareness Month—-His ‘Online Degree’ Could Save Your Life!!!

…..who is Gary Scheiner. If there is anyone on earth who has taken personal experienced and turned it into an ‘online’ university for diabetes, it is Gary Scheiner’s Integrated Diabetes Services where anyone, anywhere can be taught a better diabetes management style linking into his site.   No more diabetes police hounding away (parents……that’s us) but […]

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Do You Ever Dream that Diabetes IS NOT in Your Life????

It is not uncommon for me to dream that Kaitlyn does not, and never had, diabetes.  It is usually en event of some significance where we had to take her aside and check her blood glucose or stop what we are doing to give her an injection. I had another last night. It was a family gathering and […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #8 for D-Awareness Month…..She Redefined #23…for Her Son.

…..who is Michelle Alswager One of the most incredible women I know in this diabetes battle is Michelle.  We, who complain, about what we go through daily are humbled by Michelle’s efforts because Michelle’s son lost his battle with diabetes.  Michelle is stead-fast in her belief that Jesse’s memory is worth her continuing the fight and […]

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Wires, Bulkiness, Lions, Tigers, and Bears….OH MY!!!!!!

In as much as it seems that the bionic pancreas (Ed Damiano) and other attempts at an artificial pancreas are constantly being reported as “not there yet’, “too bulky”, “too many wires still”, etc. etc. I would like to take this time to remind folks the following. Picture a back pack on the back of an astronaut; […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #7 for D-Awareness Month: He Flipped a Switch and LITERALLY Changed the World.

…….who is Jeff Hitchcock. In all of my travels, and out all of the people I have met in my lifetime; in my mind one man stands alone and apart from all of the rest as having impacted the lives of families dealing with diabetes the most. He is a writer, a lecturer, humanitarian, creator, […]

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Prescriptions—–WOW Did I Blow it!!!!!! Don’t you do the same.

“I’ll take care of this order…..I know what to do.  Don’t worry about it.”  When Jill rolled her eyes and half-smiled—–I should have known. Last month I paid for an item and went through my insurance company; $487.00.  Not covered.  So I paid it.  After a while I thought there had to be a better […]