How mad are you…..I hope you are furious. Beyond Type 1.org (founded by Nick Jonas, Sam Talbot, Sarah Lucas, and Juliet De Baubigney) are involved in the Revlon One Million Dollar Challenge. Every dime that is raised today will go to Beyond Type 1’s efforts to bring awareness to the missed diagnosis of T1D. Reaching […]
Tag: DKA
Sigh. Yes my dear friends, it has happened again. And it will keep happening until it sinks in that the missed diagnosis of type one diabetes is so real….and it kills. It injures. It is unnecessary. Even in the story below, the Doctor interviewed does not even mention the flu-like symptoms as a warning sign that just […]
I said the same thing to each of my children once they obtained their license; “if you tell me you are going to be home at 12:00 midnight and it is 12:01 am and you have not called, I will think you are dead in a ditch someplace. That’s drastic I know, but that’s what […]
A man stands at the bottom of a stopped escalator. Not a long escalator, mind you, just normal-one-floor type. His face is red with anger as the escalator comes to a stop. “I cannot believe this, I’m so late.” There is a little boy behind him who says, “A broken escalator is just a staircase.” […]
When I was much younger, I was a huge cartoon lover. I used to watch and see how often, during a chase scene, the background repeated itself. I could tell you a really good cartoon (usually WB) from a real ‘hokey one’. There were a few constants in these cartoons that I have come to […]
The world around us. Asking for advice is a wonderful thing. At the touch of a finger you can seek a number of responses from novice to professional. Advice. Inquiry. Fact. You want it, you can find it right online. But when it comes to education, do we need to move beyond the outreach of […]