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Do You Need a Liferaft??????

Once upon a time there was a big storm and a man had evacuated to his roof as the waters slowly made their way to surround the house all the way up to the roof level. He cried out, “God help me.” As he waited for an answer a man he did not know was […]

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DISCLAIMER: It Could Kill You!!!

Thefollowing cancauseheadachespainandshouldlongtermeyepaincontinueseeyourdoctorandshouldbackachesandarmachesbeginorcontinueseeyourdoctorforimmediateattention. Got it? Have you ever heard the disclaimers at the end of commercials?  When someone who can speak very fast, tells us all the ‘bad’ that taking certain drugs will do to us? Do we even listen anymore? About a month ago I heard a commercial and the ending disclaimer was stated so fast […]

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Our Children Need the Sign to Guide Them Home……Will You Give it To Them?

The picture s a Swan.  It is a cute ‘thing’, Maria and the others in the housekeeping staff, make with a towel here in Disney, where I am for the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference.    The creation will usually find their way into the window, or it could be a favorite stuffed animal, or even a […]

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Sometimes Compassion Comes………and the “How” Should not Matter.

“It’s a terrible disease…….” The woman was in her eighties for sure.  It was a meeting by chance of two strangers who happen to be at the same place at the same time.  I was wearing a shirt that gave away that diabetes was in my life. As soon as she said this statement, my […]

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Magic is Not a Place or a Conference………It is Where YOU Find It.

Oh yes, Mickey and Minnie will be there. Chances are that so will all of their friends be there as well.   So will Mickey’s friend, Coco, she is a monkey and she has diabetes.  So wo; American Idol Runner up Crystal Bowersox, Former Pittsburgh Steelers Lineman Kendal Simmons, Triathalete Jay Hewitt, and so many more. […]

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What is YOUR Spinach…….Help Advise Moms and Dads w/Newly Diagnosed.

Get away. Recently I wrote that we, as parents, do not know what it is like to have diabetes.  We care for, administer, sleep-walk, and do all sorts of things for our children with diabetes but we do not have it. So here is the question that can surely help others and I mean can […]