Our Diabetic Partner Follies series returns with a bang here: Boy meets girl, they marry, girl gets diabetes, boy gets diabetes — oh boy! Enjoy:
A Guest Post by Jessica Apple, editor-in-chief of ASweetLife
“A really cute guy kept smiling at me,” I wrote in my diary when I was 18. “He looked like a football player.” I had just graduated from high school in Texas and was traveling in Israel with a group…
We have a special treat for today’s edition of The Diabetic Partner Follies, the series featuring partners and loved ones of diabetics.
Today our guest is Andreina Davila, the behind-the-scenes partner at one of our largest online diabetes communities, TuDiabetes.org. Her husband is of course founder and diabetes advocate extraordinaire, Manny Hernandez. Andreina isn’t just a wife either; she is a partner and co-founder of the Diabetes Hands Foundation and also the organization’s Creative Director,…
Welcome, partners and loved ones of diabetics. It’s been a while since we’ve visited this series by and for you all, where you can share your perspective on what it means to live with diabetes “from the other side.”
First off, I’d like to announce that fabulous fellow D-blogger and author Wil Dubois is working on his next project, “a book for those poor people… stuck with us T1′s and T2′s in their lives.” He’s…
Welcome to the latest edition of the Diabetic Partner Follies, where the partners of people with diabetes (PWDs) come to share their stories. Ginger and her husband Doug have had it tough; his health issues go beyond struggling with blood sugar. Understandably, she is scared. And worn out. And — well, let’s hear it from her:
Hi Amy,
I just last night tried to find something out on why diabetics do not heal well. I…
Welcome back at last to the Diabetic Partner Follies, a series of guest posts from the Loved Ones and partners of us PWDs (People with Diabetes). Wow, hearing about this disease from the other side is not pretty. Not pretty at all. Please read this latest heartfelt contribution from a partner who is, well, … just depressed about her family’s state of affairs.
Hi Amy,
I just found your website and cannot believe that…