Welcome to the latest in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the 2012 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were announced back in June.
This time, we’re chatting with Tom Ley, who has a unique story in that he’s not only been living with type 1 diabetes for most of his life, but has also been blind for much of his life too. Despite his inability to see, Tom’s visionary thinking on D-innovation has the…
Welcome to the latest in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the 2012 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were announced back in June.
This time, we’re chatting with Sara Vazquez, a fellow PWD who lives in Massachusetts, where she’s in her senior year of college studying biology. She also works as an undergraduate research lab assistant at the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, so she’s right there at the corner of Brilliant Minds…
Adults with type 1 diabetes, rejoice! Whereas we were once “square pegs” in a world dominated by “juvenile diabetes” and type 2, there is more and more recognition that we exist, and more and more great events are welcoming us grown-up type 1s and LADAs.
Now, this includes the national diabetes-education conference series many of us know and love, Dr. Steven Edelman’s organization out of San Diego, Taking Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD). Starting this…
This is the sixth in our series of interviews with the 10 winners of the 2012 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Contest, who were announced back in June.
Julie Cabinaw, who lives in Boise, Idaho, is a type 2 who’s no stranger to innovation and web-based technology. She’s worked in software and web tech, product strategy and user experience for 18 years for companies like Microsoft, Healthwise, HP and Scentsy! On top of being a proud wife and mom…
If I were the parent of a child with diabetes, my opinions about the new-to-the-market and highly praised Medtronic MySentry CGM monitoring device might be different.
But I’m not a CWD parent. No, I’m an adult living with type 1 diabetes.
And from that perspective, despite all the benefits of this device I see, it’s just not for me. I see more cons and downsides to it than benefits and that’s why I can’t say…