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A Diabetes Bag by Any Other Name………What Do You Call Yours?

I have noticed recently, that when people refer to their ‘diabetes bag’; you know that ‘quick-grab-and-get-and-take-with-you’ bag full of just enough diabetes supplies to help you in your travels, that they call it something. You know, like a name. I found that very interesting.  So today I would like to hear what you, in your household, call […]

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Labels….Labels….Labels. A Public Service Announcement from your Local DiabetesDad.

I want to save you from some grief.  Whether you have been at this for a week or over twenty-three years, there is something you should do, and many do not.  Kind of hard to explain why people do not do this; but so many don’t. Labels. In this day and age it is so easy to […]

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Have You Ever Suffered from Diabetes Dropsies????? Welcome to My Week!!!!!

Have you ever suffered with ‘Diabetes Dropsies’?  It’s a phrase I made up.  It is just those times that, even though I know I know, I drop the ball.  It just seems that there must be a full moon or something because when it comes to diabetes, I am having it a tad rough lately. […]

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Houston, We Have a Problem. Energy Building is More Productive than Energy Knocking Down.

 If you click the photo you will see a very  short clip.  It is from the movie Apollo 13, a classic directed by Ron Howard.  What is very interesting about this clip, is something that you might think is standard operational procedure for people working at NASA.  The ‘takeaway’, perhaps, is one does not have to […]

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It’s Easy To Make it About what they Got Wrong and Right………BUT ASK Yourself………

There has been much discussion about the recent NY Times article that included the writer’s opinion/research about devices, expenses surrounding diabetes, and more.  You can read the entire article by clicking here. Someone asked me if I was going to chime in; and I AM going to chime in but perhaps not in the way that I […]

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Did You Ever Have a Dream More Real than Not Real?

Did you ever have a dream that was so real, you could touch it?  The conversation being so real that you think you actually had the conversation with the person in your dream?  My dream was just like that and even though it seemed impossible, my friend was right next to me. Many things that happen […]