This month, we bring you more of our favorite posts from around the Diabetes Online Community. Luckily, there’s never a shortage of fun stuff to read.
Oh, and don’t forget to send us your favorites to be sure we’re ropin’ in all the best stuff each month!
Kim Vlasnik illustrates that there are some inadvertent advantages to life with diabetes in a creative and humorous way.
Candy Hearts blogger Wendy and her daughter are having…
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AmyT on
March 30, 2011
Please welcome a brand new judge this year in the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, Dr. Daniel Crowe. He is Medical Director of the Diabetes Program at Southboro Medical Group in Massachusetts, and a long-time type 1 himself.
As a diabetologist who wears his very own insulin pump and CGM, Dan brings a unique perspective to this contest and the prospects of innovative diabetes tools:
DM) First off, can you tell us what it’s like to…
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AmyT on
March 29, 2011
The topic for this month’s DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) blog carnival is all about exercise, which made us laugh. That’s because Allison and I are polar opposites on this topic: we’re two type 1 pumpers who view physical activity as penance and party time, respectively. I wonder which camp most of you are in — or hopefully someplace inbetween…?
Allison and Exercise:
I’m just gonna come out and say it: I hate exercising. It feels…
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AmyT on
March 28, 2011
The newest member of our team, Wil Dubois, takes on a sweet-and-sour issue here: organizations that purport to help out diabetics in need, and possibly do so, yet their facade of “charity” masks a thriving business. Read on and let us know what YOU think…
The card and the flyer are misleading.
Diabetic Supply Rescue, known as DSR, is a New Mexico based non-profit that bills itself as a charity. Their slogan is “Recycle.…
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AmyT on
March 27, 2011
Welcome back to the new DiabetesMine Sunday Funnies, featuring the work of fantastic D-artist Haidee Merritt (and occasionally some other stuff). If you missed it last week, check it out here.
Your Funnies for today… the way life often seems to us PWDs:
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