This was a hard article to write but I have never shied away from a discussion that should be had. I’m also shocked when, undoubtedly, someone writes me privately and says, “……are you referring to ‘such-and-such?” Interesting thing is that I will get numerous such emails and I will not be referring to any specific […]
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A while back, Rob and Kaitlyn were discussing something about their diabetes. The conversation was theirs, and I will not reveal it, but I will say that what Kaitlyn said I could never say. I have often wondered if people who have diabetes have a language all their own. Or, at least, a ‘pass’ to […]
To fight for the right, without question or pause … To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause … —–Man of La Mancha Sometimes, it feels like Don Quixote trying to fight windmills all day with very little results (you can read the story sometime to understand that reference). I was […]
I have never tried to ‘fake it’ about what it is like to have diabetes. I have always made it clear to my children that I DO NOT understand what they go through; but I have also spared them what we go through as parents. Unless you are a parent of a child with T1 […]
Twenty Six Hundred kids. I’ll say it again—-twenty six hundred kids. Do you know what that represents? That represents the amount of kids who applied for a college scholarship last year from the Diabetes Scholars Foundation, according to Mary Podjasek, President and Executive Director. That means twenty-six hundred kids graduated high school last year who had […]
I have found it a tad scary to think that there is an entire generation of people who have no idea of the meaning, ‘You sound like a broken record.” I mean how would they know? Records are achievements broken in sports, at the box office, and in other places where milestones are measured. They […]