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An Initiative Created: Now it’s UP TO ALL OF US. PLEASE SHARE EVERYWHERE.

There has been talk for so long how the education level regarding T1 diabetes needs to be ramped up.  We need to do more.  What can we do? For over a year I have been working with Kim May (a d-mom) who owns her own ad agency in Texas (this initiative DOES NOT happen without her […]

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A Child’s Cry that MUST Be Heard………A Child’s Cry for Change THAT WILL BE Heard.

It was over four months in the making.  The finished product is almost 40 pages long.  To be honest, I cannot tell you how many times I cried as I read the stories.  I received so many.  The story of the missed-diagnosed child that led to bigger problems upon diagnosis.  A story or two also […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #25 for D-Month: No one has Been a Better, or Longer Tenured Spokesperson for Diabetes, than this Woman who Turned the World On with Her Smile

…..and the answer is, who is Mary Tyler Moore. We can argue the point whether or not Ms. Moore is the greatest TV and/or Female TV personality of all time; but she stands alone when it comes to spokesperson in the world of diabetes.  I can tell you from meeting her many times and actually […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #23 for D-Month: Diabetes is NOT Just in the USA…4 Making a Difference Where They Live

       ……..and the answer is, who are Jacqui Double, Jackie Jacombs, Barb Wagstaff, and Wayne Cox. The problems of diabetes stretches across the globe and the problems and challenges we fight in the USA  are sometimes even more challenging than we would ever know.  But here is a short glimpse of 4 parents who fight […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #22 for D-Month: On the Anniversary of that Fateful Day In Dallas; Something WONDERFUL from the State of Texas.

….and the answer is, who is Pam Henry. It just seemed to me that with the 50th anniversary of that fateful day in Dallas being today, I needed to write about something hugely positive that came from the wonderful state of Texas……I found my answer of course, in Pam Henry, her husband John, and their […]

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NEWSBREAK: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE RECALLS STRIPS

FROM THEIR WEBSITE—-CLICK THE LINK TO READ ALL Recently, it has come to our attention that certain lots of FreeStyle® and FreeStyle Lite® Blood Glucose Test Strips produce erroneously low blood glucose results when using FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Meters, FreeStyle Flash® Blood Glucose Meters and the FreeStyle® blood glucose meter built into the OmniPod® system. […]