Drawing Diabetes: the Video
Get out your kleenex box, and watch this:
Special thanks to Manny Hernandez and the whole gang at the Diabetes Hands Foundation.…
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“OMG, Nick Jonas!”
The Jonas Brothers played San Francisco this week. We did not attend (tickets started at $92). But my three daughters have chatted up everyone at their school, everyone at summer camp, and everyone under age 14 within a 10-mile radius, I believe: they just cannot get over the fact that I actually interviewed Nick Jonas back in Spring of 2007.
Never mind that the interview was over the phone. And never mind that this was…
Thigh High
I’ve always been squeamish about trying alternate sites for my insulin pump. When Tiffany wrote about using her breasts back in 2005, I kind of shut down on the whole notion. Eeeeww! Just give me the belly and arms, thank you very much.
But now that I’m having issues with both skin irritation and lipodystrophy (overused infusion sites), I’m starting to eye the rest of my body for acceptable places to poke.
Insulet, the makers…
Diabetes Research Wars
One thing about the ADA Conference last month that I haven’t gotten around to reporting: You wouldn’t believe the jockeying for position by these Big Pharma companies around all the research announcements. What from the outside looks like a bunch of meaningful academic pursuits is in truth pure gold data that fuels streams of business. So when results are announced, they’ve got to make the right impression the first time.
Allow me to explain a…
The Diabetes Educator We All Should See
I knew Theresa Garnero was someone special before I even met her. She not only won the honor of AADE Diabetes Educator of the Year in 2004-2005, but she also recently won the Inspired by Diabetes contest — for a “Pin the Pancreas on the Piggy” game, no less. She also contributed to this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, with a completely goofy product idea called the “Pet Pancreas” that says silly D-things when you press…
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