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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
I had brunch a few weeks ago with friends and acquaintances, all of whom have diabetes. As always happens, we talked exclusively about diabetes throughout the whole meal, both ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
This month Diabetes Health magazine was about diabetes heros. I think there are more diabetes heros around than we could ever write about and we generally tend to only hear ab ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
I'm a type 1 who rarely logs her blood sugar numbers. I test about six times a day ordinarily, more when I eat a meal out and don't really know how many carbs are in it, or ta ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
These last two weeks I've been "Amtracking" up and down the East Coast: From New York to Cambridge, MA two weeks ago and last week to Harrisburg, PA and then back f ...
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This Saturday, November 14th, is World Diabetes Day (WDD). The day people around the world will mark in various ways to involve the local community, engage the media, and rais ...
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Yesterday I had the rare good fortune to do one of my favorite things. Shoot the breeze with other PWDs (people with diabetes if we're being politically correct). Miriam Tucke ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
If I think about it, most mornings when the weather isn't obvious, I stand at my living room window while my oatmeal is simmering on the stove, squinting through the trees out ...
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Having made the acquaintance of so many remarkable fellow diabetes bloggers a few months ago at the Roche social summit, I've had the wonderful opportunity to share some of my ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
With little fanfare, my husband turned to me about two months ago and said, "Wouldn't it be something if we gave away your books to the speakers and member nations who'll ...
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Just landed home from two weeks in the U.K. where I'm collaborating with an expert in behavioral intervention to help patients better manage diabetes. This promises to be exci ...
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This is my last post for a few weeks and so I wanted to leave you with some interesting things to check out and do while I'm gone. And, remind you to come back t he end of thi ...
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What's a blogger to do when she's going to be away for a few weeks and can't post except from home? Well, one thing is I'm working on solving that problem, but not in time for ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
A lifetime ago, well literally half my life ago when I was in my twenties, I quit my advertising copywriting job to design and write inspirational greeting cards. I was taking ...
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Grab a videocam and help us all make sense of diabetes. Manny Hernandez, founder of Diabetes Hands Foundation and the social networking sites, TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes, is ...
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Translation: "The ABCs of Loving Yourself with Diabetes." This Spring my ABC book came out in Spanish due to the unprecedented hard work of its two translators: Geo ...
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My second and third post went up at Diabetes O.C. so have a look. That lets me off the hook for at least a few days I figure.Post #2: "How Meaningfulness Makes a Differen ...
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Lying in bed at 6 A.M. a few weeks ago I felt a sting and when I brushed my hand against my wrist, felt something fuzzy there. I didn't know it but I had just brushed off a ho ...
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This week I'm the guest blogger over atDiabetes O.C., a great place to hear many patient voices and a growing resource site. Take a look. Today's topic is what else - diabetes ...
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For the first time in I don't know how long I'm keeping a log of blood sugars. No kidding, it has the blood smears throughout to prove it. The reason? Two weeks ago I started ...
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I've just returned from Worcester, Massachusettes where I spoke to a group of about 100 patients about a lot of confusion around insulin. It was a great group, it was a great ...
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