Here’s a shot of me with my some of my new bike gear. Excellent! Actually, this is my old bike, and I’m pretty black, blue, and yellow so far from attempting to train on my new bike with clip-in pedals. (Don’t laugh, you know what a girlie-girl I am!)
Nevertheless, I’ve spent quite a bit of time lately out riding — complete with bugs in teeth, bugs in nostrils, bugs in ear, bugs stuck on…
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How strange and wonderful and full of surprises life is. For instance, just last week I was an ordinary petless PWD on shots. And look at me now: I’m a Pumper with a Cat!
Meet Mystique, the one-year-old female calico who joined our family just a few days ago. She’s confident and playful, outgoing yet calm, patient with grabby little hands while always on the lookout for a twitching shoelace to attack. She’s a cuddly…
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If you open it, close it.
If you drop it, pick it up.
If you empty it, fill it up.
If you make it messy, clean it up.
If you wear it, put it back.
If you borrow it, return it.
+ If you eat it, dose for it (my 2 cents)
Oh, you parents out there — does this not sum it up so well? And for the rest of you,…
Happy Valentine’s Day, Dears.
(photo courtesy of the Diabetes Made Visible folks on Flickr. Love you all!)
Especially for us PWDs, a few V-day treats without the actual glucose:
* Sharing. This week’s edition of Grand Rounds, the medical blogging roundup, features a “Give Me Some Sugar” theme. No actual consumption involved. Oh, except for Kim over at EmergiBlog. (If it weren’t Love Day, I might be tempted to ring those chocolate-stained necks)
* Empathy. …
Anyone remember that goofy Internet game Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon? Well, yeah, it was originally intended to lampoon him and all celebrities and their hangers-on. But good for Kev, for turning it into something useful. He’s recently launched a new fundraising networking site called SixDegrees.org that’s supporting any charity of your choice with a chance of winning a matching donation from Kevin himself of up to $10,000!
And it didn’t take our enterprising D-Community…