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AmyT on
October 30, 2009
One of the wonderful things about the online diabetes community is our ability to create our own language. We have SWAG Bolus, Rage Bolus, Real People Sick, and one of my favorites, bolus-worthy.
With the full holiday season just around the corner (everyone got their Halloween costume ready?), we PWDs are going to be inundated on an almost regular basis with folks offering up the sugary sweets that come with this loathsome time of year. …
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AmyT on
October 29, 2009
“Diabetes? I’ve heard of it. It’s one of those charity diseases, the kind they raise money for… There’s no way I can have diabetes. I’m a twenty-one year-old dancer with the New York City Ballet. Things like that don’t happen to people like me!“
— Zippora Karz, from the first chapter of her new memoir, “The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina’s Triumph Over Diabetes.”
Zippora’s new book will be in stores beginning this Sunday, Nov. 1,…
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AmyT on
October 28, 2009
On an overnight trip to Dallas two weeks ago, I broke out in some rather ugly hives — again! My lips poofed up like I’d been slammed with a hockey puck, and my right eye went all ape-like. This lasted for several days. It was that damn gluten allergy again, I must assume, although for the life of me I can’t figure out what I “ate wrong.”
This experience reminded me about a post from…
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AmyT on
October 27, 2009
There are so many great events around empowered patients and consumer-driven healthcare in the Fall. It also being soccer season, the kickoff of the school year, and time for nearly every existing Jewish holiday, I can’t possibly attend as many as I’d like to. This makes me especially thankful to have some good D-blogger friends, such as Allison Blass, who recently attended one of these key conferences, and reports back to DiabetesMine today:
A Guest…
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AmyT on
October 26, 2009
We tend to assume that the big companies making glucose monitoring products do nothing but sit around thinking about how they can sell more product. You can’t blame us; it sure looks that way from the outside. But late last week I was privileged to get an inside view of some of the real innovation going on behind closed doors.
I was invited to visit Roche’s New Concept Incubator, a small “think tank” of about…
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