In four extraordinarily short months, I will be getting married to my best friend. That means there is a heck of a lot of planning going on these days. Which flowers should we get? Should the second entree be fish or vegetarian? And what on earth are we supposed to do about favors? And lest we forget… diabetes.
Diabetes, unfortunately, never takes a vacation. Not even for six hours so I can get married and…
February may have been a short month, but that doesn’t mean the diabetes online community is short of amazing posts! Because the DOC is growing so quickly, we’ve taken to highlighting a few of our favorite “must-read” posts at the end of each month. For February 2011:
You may not know it, but this week is National Eating Disorders Week. And in light of that, Lee Ann shares her greatest achievement despite diabetes.
Caroline needs…
We get a lot of emails from a wide variety of folks with diabetes, but when we received an email from a newly diagnosed Marine, we knew we needed to find out more about this guy! Nick Lozar is a captain currently stationed in Quantico, VA, where he lives with his wife and 2-year-old daughter. It was while stationed in Virginia that he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in October 2009, and recently joined…
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For many parents and kids with diabetes, diabetes camp is a saving grace. When everyday life can leave you feeling isolated, diabetes camp provides a comradery and a normalcy to life with diabetes, along with your typical camp experience including arts and crafts, bonfires, late night bunk gossip, and lots of singing!
We bring this up now because it’s that time of year again when parents need to start thinking about signing kids up for…
Diabetes doesn’t discriminate — it affects anyone at any age, gender, race, and country… Our hope is to educate on life without diabetes outside the borders of the US, and show that our community is much bigger than we might think.
Today, our guest blogger is Mike Young, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 11 years ago. Although he was born in England and lived in the US for a while, he’s been living…