Today marks Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year: 5,771 years of a peoples’ history. May it be a sweet new year to all those of you who celebrate today!
In some senses, this holiday is considered the birthday of the world.
But perhaps more importantly, Rosh Hashanah is considered a time for personal renewal: not just to swear off our old bad habits, but to refresh and revitalize ourselves as human beings. We are tasked…
I receive a lot of emails with questions about diabetes, mostly on pump models or how to motivate teenagers to test their glucose more often. I do my best to point people to the most valuable resources around. But late last week last I got an email I felt helpless to reply to:
“I’m 28 years old my name is K. I’m type one diabetic, I’ve never really taken good care of myself… I rebelled…
Back to School seems to be coming earlier every year — although for me, psychologically, it will always be the Tuesday after Labor Day. Speaking of the psychological aspects of school life, I asked my D-correspondent extraordinaire Allison Blass to share her thoughts about being a kid with diabetes in the classroom: who do you tell about the Big D and how, and what’s a parent to do these days?
A Guest Post by Allison…
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My seven-year-old wanted to know: since we have so few official days here in America where all the people get off work, why is this one in particular called “Labor Day”?
“Well… it’s for all the people who work really hard every day. It’s to celebrate them and their hard work,” I fumbled to explain.
“Oh, like with diabetes, people have so much work every day,” she replied.
Yikes! Is everything always all about the…
To cap off this week of copious diabetes creativity, I am presenting a few favorites from the “Most-Creative” category in the 2010 DiabetesMine Design Challenge as promised.
Again, using the Wired/Tired method, I’m also sharing some key comments from our judging team (below each entry today). Hopefully these ideas will not only motivate you to envision your own “ideal diabetes tool,” but will also provide some insight into our judging process.
Note that we struggled…