I had the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with NASCAR Xfinity Series ‘checker-flag’ recipient, Ryan Reed, shortly after his huge victory at Daytona National Speedway last weekend. This remarkable young man is not only taking NASCAR by storm, he and his partners at Lilly Diabetes and The American Diabetes Association’s Drive To Stop Diabetes, are […]
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I had the chance to speak to a new mom. Well she is not a new mom, but a new mom where diabetes has become the new normal. Let’s just call her ‘S’. ‘S’ asked me to call her because she had questions about her nine-year-old who was diagnosed only a few weeks ago. She […]
On this day, let pride win. Instead of feeling the hurt, the pain, the grief over diabetes being in the life of your child, why not choose NOT TO GIVE IT SO MUCH attention—-just on this one day. Brag about your child. Be proud. Brag to us all……about anything. Choose the fact that your child […]
Turning down every chance you’re given. Takes the risk out of life, but friend How the hell can you call that livin’? Out There—from the Broadway Musical, Barnum I have been thinking a lot about the pathways our children will take. As I reported the news on Ryan Reed’s huge victory this weekend in Daytona, I could […]
As I watched the Oscars tonight, I am sure I was not the only one who was struck boldly by the winners of Best Actor and Best Actress. It might be that I am so linked to the diabetes community but I had two distinct feelings. Fabulous. And; when will see diabetes? In case you […]
In a stunning move during the last lap, 21-year-old Ryan Reed, a person with diabetes, took the lead and kept it to cross the checkered flag at the Daytona 300 Xfinity Nationwide Series late today. In a race that had many collisions including one that landed Kyle Busch into the hospital with a leg injury after […]