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Tried CGM? Pump?…and Went Off…..YOU FAILED!!!!!……..Hmmmmm Really?

I have a friend; let’s call her K.  K has a son, let’s call him Z.  I have known K for a very long time and she was an incredible actress.  I thought nothing could ever surpass her talent, but it did, it was K’s incredible and wonderful heart.  She is an incredible mom and her […]

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Insulin Pump? CGM? One Choice……What Do You Choose? A Needed Dialogue.

So, say you are speaking to a newly diagnosed parent.  They are slowly coming around to understanding this new thing called diabetes and the doctor starts to inform them that it’s time to start thinking of having their child consider an insulin pump.  The conversation and the plans begin. But is that an error? Well not […]

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Panic or Solve It—-How do You Handle Life’s Problems?

I enter an elevator.  Now four of us are standing there as the door closes.  Man #1 is dressed in a suit that I can only imagine the price and he is about sixty-ish.  Man #2 is in jeans, a t-shirt, and a backwards baseball cap say around late twenties.   Man #3 is in his […]

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Nothing that You Hear……Only Half of What you See.

Mama always taught me; ‘…….to believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see…..”  The premise, quite simply, is that nothing is as it seems.   If someone is speaking, everything they say is as they see the world; and that “….it ain’t necessarily the way it is….”  It also may have influenced […]

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Know it, Learn it, and——Do Your Job!!!!

I do my job. When it came to diabetes and our kids, we did our job.  We did it with all due diligence, we did it with education, we did it with all we had.  We did not beat ourselves up over a high A1C and we did not dance in the streets when the […]

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Sung a la Elvis…It’s a Blue Diabetes…How do YOU Shake, Rattle, Roll It…Thank You Very Much?

My friend and wonderful author, Andrew Deutscher asks a very interesting question that I would like to get out there to hear your comments/feedback.  If you have diabetes or you have a child with diabetes, needless-to-say that at some point or another, you are going to want to scream from the highest mountain…….and maybe you do […]