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Define. Your Thoughts and Input Needed.

I have received many emails and one person wrote, “I would be interested to read what others consider as their definition of a cure?” Fair enough. Very simply put:  Please share what a cure means to you?  Please share here on the blog and not on the FB post because it is posted in many […]

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A Meeting……I Should Have Known……We Have Work To Do…….What Say You?

Astounding. Mind-blowing.  Revealing.  Frustrating. We have some work to do.  If ever I was reminded of that fact, it was last night. I belong to a small group in my hometown.  We raise money for local causes surrounding diabetes needs.  In the scheme of things it is significant enough to make a difference to those […]

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I was Asked, I Answer. How About You?

I was asked by someone recently what a cure looks like to me? She writes, “Is the cure you visualize one without side effects, complications and risk. Does it restore normal beta cell function in some way? Does it involve an operation? Will they need any other medication? Will the cure last or will they […]

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PLEASE Let These Wonderful People Know How Grateful we, as a Diabetes Community, are for their Efforts!!!!!!!

Welcome.  Here is your ticket to enter a fabulous world.  I am absolutely exhausted.  I am absolutely exhilarated.  I am absolutely thrilled.  For the past few months, we Suffolk County LIONs Diabetes Education Foundation members have been working on a project to raise money to do what we do to help people with diabetes.  Yesterday we […]

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JDRF, and The World, Loses a POWERHOUSE. A Tribute.

When I was a staff person at what was then called the JDF (didn’t know that did you?) I was at a meeting and the woman at the microphone said with that incredible smile; “Lock the doors because no one is getting out until they commit to this.” That woman was Dame Carol Lurie.  Last […]

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Diabetes….Does One Really Plan for Future Birthdays????

I started crying in the car thinking about my birthday. I know it’s still two weeks away, but I never thought I’d live to see 40. I was sure I’d be dead by now, and I don’t know how I’m not, but here I am. Lee Ann Thill wrote this on her FB page this […]