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NewsBREAK: Superstar Tom Hanks has T2 Diabetes

This was reported on ABC website.  Here is the link: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/tom-hanks-reveals-type-2-diabetes-123622689–abc-news-celebrities.html I am a diabetes dad Please visit my Diabetes Dad FB Page and hit ‘like’.

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Tomorrow is Diabetes Leave Me Alone Day

There are a wide variety of self-proclaimed ‘diabetes days’.  I think I would like to add one. Let’s make Tuesday, October 8th, Diabetes Leave Me Alone Day.  I chose that day because it’s tomorrow.  Why put off something that can happen right away? Here is how it would work.  Whoever is the caretaker of the […]

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The Diabetes Internet Highway of Information……….Due Diligence at Your Fingertips

I have discussed before doing ‘due diligence’.  Due diligence is making sure all aspects are checked thoroughly when dealing with our children’s diabetes.  Whether it is a doctor, a management tool, a diabetes educator, or even a diabetes alert dog; make sure you ask a zillion questions.  Check references. Ask people in the diabetes online […]

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Why Do the Good Times Need to be a Date Circled??????

How I wish every day was like yesterday. How I wish all of my friends could have yesterday, every day. Being so involved in the diabetes world; being so much involved with everything we do every day; once in a while a day comes along like no other. As many know, our son got married yesterday. […]

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The Wedding Day, Oh Yeah………and Diabetes.

We use the word diabetes with such familiarity, don’t we?  How was your diabetes today, diabetes came to visit, diagnosed with diabetes, ‘no not that one, the one without diabetes’; are all just some of the phrases that have crept into our every day language. I was all set to tell you about today, which […]

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A+ That Diabetes School Project…..PLEASE share!!!!!

School. It makes sense to think at some point our kids will be given the opportunity to share diabetes at school as part of a project. Perhaps a classroom speech. Perhaps a science project. If you have not been faced with this decision, you very well may.  I recently read a story of a young man, […]