By
AmyT on
December 6, 2012
We’ve been traveling the world for the past year, bringing you different perspectives on life with diabetes via our Global Diabetes Series. Today, we bring you a story from South Africa!
We were delighted to bump into fellow person with diabetes (PWD) Mark Koekemoer, a 31-year-old diagnosed with type 1 as a teenager 16 years ago. A year ago, Mark created an online community called Rock Your Diabetes, and more recently, he’s started a South African Twitter…
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The other day, my dad told me that he’d recently hired a woman at his company who has LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). She wears an insulin pump, and when he mentioned that I went off my pump this Spring and went back to taking multiple shots a day, the woman was apparently shocked and couldn’t figure out why I would “go backwards.”
It’s true that switching from a pump to multiple daily injections…
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By
MikeH on
November 30, 2012
As we come to the end of Diabetes Awareness Month and the year, it’s always a good chance to reflect a little on what we do.
Turns out, this month’s DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) Blog Carnival prompt encourages all of us active in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) to look back on how we’ve advocated this year and what we can do differently in 2013. We all worked hard this month (and every day of…
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By
MikeH on
November 29, 2012
The year is coming to a close, and it’s hard to believe we now only have one month left of 2012! Time flies when you’re having fun, and the many happy posts we found around the diabetes blogosphere show that’s what we’ve all been doing this past month!
Of course, November is the biggest D-Month of the year, in which diabetes awareness is on the world’s stage. With World Diabetes Day itself on Nov. 14…
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AmyT on
November 28, 2012
To my mind, the DiabetesMine Innovation Summit I’ve hosted the last two years is not a “conference.” Rather, in the true tradition of a “Summit,” it aims to bring key decision-makers and other folks passionate about diabetes care together in one room for some very frank conversations about where we are now, what needs improvement, and how we can get to a better place as quickly as possible.
On that note, the Pharma executives and…
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