Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break.  We spent the weekend laughing and relaxing with friends. I’ll admit: we ate too much, and also geeked out just a little playing with some new Web 2.0 stuff.
Um, just watch this …

{{Grin}}

Editor’s Note: Don’t forget to share your Thanksgiving with the Big D story (or Xmas [...]

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Don’t worry. Be happy.  Enjoy the day! (And the long weekend!)

That is my 7-year-old’s artwork, btw: Mr. Scarecrow.  Does he look bummed, just because he might be missing a functioning brain?  No Sir.  So no bemoaning your dead pancreas today People, OK?
Hey, if nothing else, be glad you’re not an astronaut;  if you thought [...]

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving: do you have D-plan in place?  On this note, and in keeping with this year’s Holiday Survival Stories Contest announced this week, I’m revisiting this little tongue-in-cheek pre-feast post from 2006 (still timely!) today:

Are You Holiday-Ready?
No, really.  Are you ready for the season of making merry by way of overeating and [...]

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In honor of both National Diabetes Month and the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, I wanted to share with you the story of a man whom we all owe a debt of gratitude: Dr. Frederick Banting.
Some of you may know this, but World Diabetes Day was chosen to be on November 14 because it is Dr. Banting’s [...]

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The holidays are around the corner and that means another edition of the DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes. For this year’s contest, we’re asking you to submit your “Best Of” or “Worst Of” stories about surviving the holidays with diabetes.
The “Best Of” category asks you, Dear Readers, to share your triumphs and successes with [...]

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