Diaversary. When you type it, the little red-squiggle-line is under it as a mis-spelled word; you won’t find it in any dictionary, but you will find it in the Diabetapedia (bet you did not know we had one of those in the diabetes community….did you?…but we do); but for all intent and purposes, the word-diaversary-does not […]
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So I have been traveling this week….no surprise there…eh? But this travel is for family business and a little fun. As I sit down by the water I see the waves breaking a short distance from the shore. Rougher weather than normal (no surprise there either), I notice what sea-bearing people will call ‘white-caps’ on […]
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Anyone PISS You Off Lately?????
It’s hard sometimes to sit and think this all the way through. I have been at it a long time. I have dedicated my life and am a staff member supporting one of the greatest research centers in the world. There are surely more centers than just the DRI and many are doing great things. To me, the […]
Two incidences have happened that have caused me to write today’s article. One is to share that I know two families who have come to know each other only through the deaths of their sons. Side-by-side pictures, you would swear they were brothers. Yes, both died of complications of T1 diabetes and both families are […]
How many times have we asked ourselves ‘why’ something happens when it comes to our child’s blood glucose numbers. I always loved that question, as if it really has a logical answer? Let’s equal the playing field here, I am not speaking about the instances when a number is easily explained, of course that is——easy. […]
We challenge our colleagues, our partners, our kids and even the mechanic that works on our car. We challenge them at what they know, and what we want them to know, and yet, I’ll ask a mom in mere conversation why she uses a certain glucometer and she will answer because our doctor said we […]