Since I got Type 1 diabetes at the ripe old age of 30+, I never had the experience of “leaving the nest” with the Big D. So I recently asked fellow blogger and advocate Allison Blass what that was like: Did your parents fall apart? Were you scared to death, or more elated? What she came back with was actually more of a practical nature: the top tips she wished she’d known at the time.…
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I’m sure you’ve all heard that Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court was confirmed by Obama today. How could you miss it, with all that media buzz about her being:
1) the first Latina, 2) only the third woman, and 3) the first Type 1 diabetic (first known chronic illness survivor) ever to be considered for the high court?
A huge day for Type 1 diabetes in the news! Which immediately spurred renewed buzz…
Sonia Sotomayor, a frontrunner for President Obama’s first Supreme Court appointment pick, has type 1 diabetes, and it may work against her.
Sotomayor is currently serving as a Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The fact that she could be the first diabetic (along with the first Latino) to serve on the Supreme Court is incredibly exciting for our community, of course! But there’s outcry from many that her medical…