DiabetesDad
November is over. Did you miss it? Did you do something for diabetes awareness month? Did you need a reminder that diabetes is in your household? I get it. So many believe in the ability to celebrate a good life despite/in spite of living with diabetes. A time to let the world know, and help […]
It amazes me sometimes when media skips something so crucial to our diabetes world. Nothing would make me happier than when this story is read, media sources who are so much more significant that my little column here reach out to these two women for the simple reason; their story needs to be read, seen, […]
Rosie the Riveter? Ever see that picture? She actually was not the original but she is surely the most well-known. The one we know today came to represent the empowerment of women. The ‘one we know’ was commissioned by the Westinghouse Company in 1942 to boost morale in the company. But Rosie has come to […]
I have often wished that that ‘biological’ make-up of our kids living with diabetes were the same make-up of a diabetes management device. My daughter was one of the first kids wearing an insulin pump on Long Island. Hard to think that the original proto-type for an insulin pump looked like the one in the […]
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 […]
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 […]