Romance is in the air… Valentine’s Day is coming up in less than 2 days. Are you ready? If you’re a PWD, you probably have more pressing concerns besides whether to get your beloved flowers or chocolate. As with most things, diabetes makes relationships… well, complicated. Not just complicated in the old-fashioned sense, but complicated [...]

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Isn’t it ironic that the multi-million-dollar companies that are most ‘part of the problem’ like to pretend that they’re ‘part of the solution’?
That’s all I could think of when learning about Pepsi’s big social-media-based “goodwill campaign” surrounding the SuperBowl this weekend. The company hopes to wow the country by relinquishing those coveted SuperBowl TV ad [...]

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A few days ago, I noticed an exceedingly active discussion thread over at DiabeticConnect that began with the header “Husband is not a supporter of diabetic food choices.” The woman who posted it explains how she struggles to cook separately for herself, her husband (a strictly meat-and-potatoes guy) and her two-year-old.
This poor PWD mom is [...]

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The holidays are around the corner and that means another edition of the DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes. For this year’s contest, we’re asking you to submit your “Best Of” or “Worst Of” stories about surviving the holidays with diabetes.
The “Best Of” category asks you, Dear Readers, to share your triumphs and successes with [...]

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One of the wonderful things about the online diabetes community is our ability to create our own language. We have SWAG Bolus, Rage Bolus, Real People Sick, and one of my favorites, bolus-worthy.
With the full holiday season just around the corner (everyone got their Halloween costume ready?), we PWDs are going to be inundated on [...]

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