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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #10 for D-Awareness Month: The One Who SHOULD GET Most of the Credit; But Takes Little…..

….and the answer is who is; YOU As I started to write tonight’s jeopardy question, something very wonderful entered my head.  It was tens of thousands of individuals who do what they can with this thing called diabetes. We all have different thoughts on so many different aspects of this world of diabetes.  We support different […]

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“Where Do I Begin”…….a Small Step Can Start a Race.

For this month of diabetes awareness, I have been highlighting various individuals who were not satisfied with the norm.  What they had…..was not good enough; so they changed it.  They took a step forward to ‘do something’. I am asked many times how to get started.  How to get involved.  How to “Not do nothing”.  The truth; there […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #9 for D-Awareness Month—-His ‘Online Degree’ Could Save Your Life!!!

…..who is Gary Scheiner. If there is anyone on earth who has taken personal experienced and turned it into an ‘online’ university for diabetes, it is Gary Scheiner’s Integrated Diabetes Services where anyone, anywhere can be taught a better diabetes management style linking into his site.   No more diabetes police hounding away (parents……that’s us) but […]

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Do You Ever Dream that Diabetes IS NOT in Your Life????

It is not uncommon for me to dream that Kaitlyn does not, and never had, diabetes.  It is usually en event of some significance where we had to take her aside and check her blood glucose or stop what we are doing to give her an injection. I had another last night. It was a family gathering and […]

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Diabetes Jeopardy Answer #8 for D-Awareness Month…..She Redefined #23…for Her Son.

…..who is Michelle Alswager One of the most incredible women I know in this diabetes battle is Michelle.  We, who complain, about what we go through daily are humbled by Michelle’s efforts because Michelle’s son lost his battle with diabetes.  Michelle is stead-fast in her belief that Jesse’s memory is worth her continuing the fight and […]

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Wires, Bulkiness, Lions, Tigers, and Bears….OH MY!!!!!!

In as much as it seems that the bionic pancreas (Ed Damiano) and other attempts at an artificial pancreas are constantly being reported as “not there yet’, “too bulky”, “too many wires still”, etc. etc. I would like to take this time to remind folks the following. Picture a back pack on the back of an astronaut; […]