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How Do You Know…….(with Apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)

If your kid yells to you in a department store that they are high and you know there is not substance abuse……you might be part of the diabetes community. If you find test strips attached to your dog…….you might be part of the diabetes community. If you know who the cute little bushmeister is…….you might […]

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When There is Nothing Left…..There is Something Left

The pain. Ten of thousands of finger pricks, shots, lows, highs, other management nightmares, and tears. Thousands of trips to doctors, glucagon, severe lows, severe highs, and tears. Sleepless nights, dragging days, school hassles, other problems from life, and tears. Diabetes is a non-stop barrage of pain and emotion.  It gathers you together and drop- […]

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On Hallowed Ground………..Again; In Boston.

Today I stood on hallowed ground caused by terrorism for the second time in my life.  Those who know me well know my story of spending thirty-six hours in Lower Manhattan from 9/11-9/12 in 2001.  It’s too long a story to go into here but it was surely a day I will both never forget […]

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Diabetes…..Even in a Quiet Cemetery Called Arlington.

These two stones rest in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC. Two of the worst disasters in our aviation-space-history. I had to wait to get close to them because there was a school in front of me crowding around as the they were lectured to how important these days in history were and to take a moment […]

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A Massacre in Boston

Again. A terrorist attack yet again. From someone who spent 36 straight hours in Lower Manhattan on September 11th, 2001 helping in a way I could have never imagined (that story at another time); my head started to swirl with the news coming from Boston Massachusetts yesterday.  One of the world’s most famous runs, the […]

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Happy Siblings Day……How Important are the Ones in Your New Normal?

Did you know yesterday was ‘Siblings Day’.  I didn’t.  It is not National Siblings Day because it would need a presidential order for that and thus far only 41 state’s governors have recognized it.  But it is the goal of the organization to obtain all 50 and 3 more are pending according to their website at www.siblingsday.org. […]