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WilD on
November 3, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. For the first post of November, Wil puts his finger on a universal question for PWDs: Should we really poke our pinky finger with lancets? He also opines on the state of the market in comparing insulin pens versus syringes.
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Claudia, type…
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AmyT on
November 2, 2012
Welcome to the first Friday of November! To kick off the month, we have another “life with diabetes” video short straight from Sugar Babies film creator Jenny MacKenzie.
The video this week is another look at “coming out” with your diabetes — a Brooklyn teenager’s challenges in telling others about his diabetes, navigating school life, and his mom’s worries about his future.
Episode 5: Before and After the School Bell Rings
How do…
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AmyT on
November 2, 2012
The 2012 Big Blue Test campaign is open for business. That’s the huge international online “glucose test-in” organized by Manny Hernandez and his team at the Diabetes Hands Foundation. It emphasizes the importance of exercise with diabetes, and just as last year, if the campaign hits its goal of of 20,000 entries, the program sponsor (Roche Accu-Chek) will donate $100,000 to charitable D-organizations.
But this year, the group is expanding the scope of where that…
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AmyT on
November 1, 2012
It’s officially National Diabetes Awareness Month as of today, Nov. 1 — so get out your blue and start celebrating/advocating!! We’re excited to kick off the month by hosting Best of the ‘Betes Blogs awards for the previous month, October. We were wowed to receive nearly 40 nominations!
But before we get to the awards, we wanted to mention a couple of serious items important to all members of our Diabetes Online Community:
We lost…
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