I am a NY Mets Fan. To say that statement is an absolute and complete understatement. Anyone who knows me, knows that my blood has three colors running through it. Green for the NY Jets, and Blue & Orange for my beloved Mets. In 1973, my sister, brother, and I slept outside Shea Stadium to get […]
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I have a friend; let’s call her K. K has a son, let’s call him Z. I have known K for a very long time and she was an incredible actress. I thought nothing could ever surpass her talent, but it did, it was K’s incredible and wonderful heart. She is an incredible mom and her […]
So, say you are speaking to a newly diagnosed parent. They are slowly coming around to understanding this new thing called diabetes and the doctor starts to inform them that it’s time to start thinking of having their child consider an insulin pump. The conversation and the plans begin. But is that an error? Well not […]
I enter an elevator. Now four of us are standing there as the door closes. Man #1 is dressed in a suit that I can only imagine the price and he is about sixty-ish. Man #2 is in jeans, a t-shirt, and a backwards baseball cap say around late twenties. Man #3 is in his […]
Mama always taught me; ‘…….to believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see…..” The premise, quite simply, is that nothing is as it seems. If someone is speaking, everything they say is as they see the world; and that “….it ain’t necessarily the way it is….” It also may have influenced […]
I do my job. When it came to diabetes and our kids, we did our job. We did it with all due diligence, we did it with education, we did it with all we had. We did not beat ourselves up over a high A1C and we did not dance in the streets when the […]