This is the question I asked myself as I looked at the many attendees at the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) Annual Meeting who stopped in to the presentation of the incredibly knowledgeable Susan Weiner and myself at our missed diagnosis of T1D. People believe that speaking in front of a large crowd is […]
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So hard to believe another year has gone by. Each year around June (her birthday), in honor of my friend Lisa Carlinsky, I bestow my Lisa Awards — kudos to people who understand the power of one person. To people who, in their own way, changing the world just like Lisa did. My friend Lisa […]
There certainly is no secret how strongly I feel about the missed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes (T1D). Many long hours after work and at lunchtime I spend spreading the word so we can stop the seriousness of kids seeing a medical professional with flu/virus like symptoms and no testing being done resulting, many times, in disaster. […]
A year. A full year since I met Anna at T1DExchange and shared with her the vision to try to end, halt, or even slow down the missed diagnosis of T1D. I needed help. She listened, she asked a million questions. I shared my town hall meeting survey with my questions. “It’s not official, they […]
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 […]