I have some bittersweet news to share with you: today is my last day as Assistant Editor at DiabetesMine.
What could possess me to leave such a great position at an amazing diabetes blog? Well, I’m heading back to school to become a Certified Diabetes Educator!
(((YAY!!!!!)))
This has actually been something that’s been brewing inside me since I was in high school. I remember first mentioning the idea of being a diabetes educator to…
David Weingard, a 48-year-old type 1 PWD from New York, is known in the D-community as the founder and CEO of Fit4D, a popular organization that brings together PWDs with CDEs, nutritionists and fitness coaches to help patients live healthier with diabetes. Fit4D uses virtual coaching, phone calls and videos to bring education to patients where they need it, so David knows a thing or two about diabetes and technology! David is also an avid…
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I never thought I needed a life coach or health coach, but while writing last month’s post on diabetes coaches, friend and fellow PWD Ginger Vieira kindly offered me a one-month trial to experience what it’s really like working with one. Intrigued, I decided to take her up on her offer.
For the past four weeks, I’ve been having calls with Ginger once a week and exchanging occasional text messages, to take a look at…
It looks like a duck. It quacks like a … Oh. Wait a minute. It doesn’t quack at all. So why is Abbott Diabetes calling it a duck? (That’s a metaphorical question, just so you know.)
The metaphoric duck we’re talking about lives over in Europe and is quacking along just fine. Its real name is the Abbott Freestyle InsuLinx glucose meter, and it was introduced in Europe in May 2011 and Canada this May,…
We’ve walked through multiple exhibit halls at diabetes conferences in recent months, and seen hundreds of displays for products ans services meant to serve or help the diabetes community — everything from medical devices, blood strips and supplies to non-profit charities and food products that people with diabetes might care about.
Some “controversial” exhibitors definitely caught our eye, such as a cinnamon water extract product that’s supposedly a dietary supplement to help blood sugar control (really?), and…