I receive a lot of emails with questions about diabetes, mostly on pump models or how to motivate teenagers to test their glucose more often. I do my best to point people to the most valuable resources around. But late last week last I got an email I felt helpless to reply to:
“I’m 28 years old my name is K. I’m type one diabetic, I’ve never really taken good care of myself… I rebelled…
Did you know there is now a National Infusion Site Awareness Week? It’s all part of a new awareness campaign brought to us by Roche Diabetes, coming up from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Publicity stunt by a pump manufacturer? Perhaps. But as anyone who pokes themselves regularly with needles full of insulin knows, infusion site management is an important and oft-overlooked challenge of life with diabetes.
In a recent press release, Roche shared that…
If you have diabetes and aren’t familiar with Dr. Steven Edelman, I am sorry. I hope this post will help remedy that. Dr. Edelman is a lifelong type 1 himself and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine. He has years of experience in both research and patient treatment under his belt. He was a pioneer in using and promoting CGM…
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Alan Johnson was part of the team at start-up company Gnoso Inc. that won the DiabetesMine Design Challenge in 2008, with an online tool called LogforLife. We’ve stayed in touch, and I’ve asked Alan, who is not diabetic, to share his journey with us here at the ‘Mine: what has he learned along the way, in the process of developing and trying to market a blood glucose record-keeping program? Surprisingly, Alan didn’t talk about advances…
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Richard Vaughn is a bit of a legend in the diabetes online community. Known more widely as Richard157 on several diabetes forums, Richard began sharing his story of living with type 1 diabetes for over 60 years via forum posts in 2007 and has become an inspiration for many. Last week, Richard also became a self-published author, releasing his memoirs, Beating The Odds: 64 Years of Diabetes Health, on Amazon.com.
Born in 1939 in rural…