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Death from Diabetes……A Small Glimmering Light has Arrived

By far, this is the hardest thing that I have been involved both in and with; on our diabetes journey and within our diabetes community.  It is hard.  It is sad.  It is reality.  And quite truthfully it just sucks. The number one thing that occurs when someone dies in our diabetes community, is the […]

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Seriously???? Another Couple Charged in a Diabetes Death for Religious Reasons……But this Time I wanted to Know More.

Last Thursday,  a couple was arrested in Oregon and charged with first and second degree manslaughter in the death of their daughter who died in February.   It appears to be that their daughter died from untreated T1 diabetes. This has happened before and I am sure it will happen again.  In as much as we […]

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When it Happens…..Is There Anyone Who Can Help?

Could anyone imagine a loss so huge?  I cannot.  Being part of this community we see it too often, don’t we? Even once, is too much. Is it happening more often or is it the fact that we are electronically connected that we find out about it……..sometimes instantaneously it seems? One of the most incredible women […]

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NBC News Star Stuns a Room about the Death of a Colleague.

He was introduced.  He is mega star in NY News.  How fortunate that he would lend his good name and time to such a worthy cause. He calls them the way he sees them.  He created his “The Debrief” as a vehicle to help accomplish telling the stories needing to be told.  He is direct.  He is […]