A while back, Rob and Kaitlyn were discussing something about their diabetes. The conversation was theirs, and I will not reveal it, but I will say that what Kaitlyn said I could never say. I have often wondered if people who have diabetes have a language all their own. Or, at least, a ‘pass’ to […]
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To fight for the right, without question or pause … To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause … —–Man of La Mancha Sometimes, it feels like Don Quixote trying to fight windmills all day with very little results (you can read the story sometime to understand that reference). I was […]
I have never tried to ‘fake it’ about what it is like to have diabetes. I have always made it clear to my children that I DO NOT understand what they go through; but I have also spared them what we go through as parents. Unless you are a parent of a child with T1 […]
Twenty Six Hundred kids. I’ll say it again—-twenty six hundred kids. Do you know what that represents? That represents the amount of kids who applied for a college scholarship last year from the Diabetes Scholars Foundation, according to Mary Podjasek, President and Executive Director. That means twenty-six hundred kids graduated high school last year who had […]
I have found it a tad scary to think that there is an entire generation of people who have no idea of the meaning, ‘You sound like a broken record.” I mean how would they know? Records are achievements broken in sports, at the box office, and in other places where milestones are measured. They […]
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” —-Victor Hugo Well ain’t that the truth? It is about time we come to realize that no matter how hard we try, if you are not part of this ‘new normal’ called diabetes, you just will never ‘get it’. We have all heard the stupid […]