DiabetesDadAnyone seen fault lately? You know….fault. We always look for fault. We always find fault. Fault. Pretty nasty rap that fault gets….don’t you think? How things go wrong and how bad life gets……someone’s fault……not mine….right? If not mine, someone else’s fault surely. Funny word……fault. In so many areas people are so quick to try to […]
Years ago there was a fabulous television commercial for Staples. The Christmas song is playing (sing along with me), It’s the most wonnnnn-derrrrr-fullll tome of year…..” and of course the camera pulls back to revel parents gleefully shopping for back to school supplies while showing the kids’ dour faces. Click here for the commercial. That […]
I’m speaking to a friend who shares with me ‘how hard’ they are working (with their child) so that the next visit to the doctor they will have a different A1C. “It’s so hard and we are doing everything we can. But the sacrifice will be worth it.” Another friend struggling so hard to lose […]
Have you ever seen a story in the news about the rising cost of oil prices? Usually a photo of men hovering together as if to show that they control the price per barrel and the rest of the world can only watch and wait…..and bear the brunt of whatever decision is made. You’ve seen […]
Okay, I admit that the title was a bit much…..but so many who should be involved in this have yet to do so. AND THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. Remember your anger reading about the so many who have died, or became seriously ill, because their diagnosis of T1D was missed? Kycie, Little Reegan, and so many […]
Olympic parents. Specifically Olympic moms. Ever see them in the stands? Close-up, upon close-up, of the moms who know everything their child sacrificed and diligently worked at to be in the Olympics. Proctor and Gamble even did a commercial about Olympic moms. Yeah, so what. Actually I don’t mean to belittle those moms and in […]