Have you ever come across something that just says, “WOW!!!!! They got this right?” As is so clearly known, I’m staff at the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation and I have to admit that I would be lying if I said I was not a tad envious of my friends over at the American Diabetes Association and their […]
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“Oh we’ve heard people say that and also our doctor told us to do it, but we just could not ask our little one to do that because she never did before. We haven’t done it yet, and we’re fine so far.” Sound at all familiar? The ‘it’ I will leave for you to ‘fill […]
Just wanted to give everyone a final opportunity. Here is the deal; when a newly diagnosed child occurs, parents (especially those of tween/teen-agers) want to find a celebrity who is doing amazing things…..even with diabetes. “Anyone know a video that can inspire my newly diagnosed child?” We hear it all the time. I am working […]
Babies are cute….aren’t they? Ever spend time watching a baby? I mean REALLY watching a baby? They do incredibly fascinating things. I find one move, and almost all babies do it, absolutely fascinating. Once babies get the idea of crawling……they will start to crawl away from their mom and suddenly turn around and look. Sometimes […]
I have read, over the years, of people saying the following; “I look at diabetes coming into our household as a blessing”. Over the years I have also read of the reasons people stated that diabetes was a ‘blessing’: “I have met such wonderful people”. “We would have been divorced.” “It made us all become […]
People just do not understand. Very few do, in fact. When I have to tend to my child, YOUR timing is not my timing; in fact, and we had to learn this, our timing IS NOT our timing. If our child needs tending to, our world stops. Period. I do not care if you get frustrated because […]