Kathleen Weaver might be considered the godmother of diabetes bloggers. After all, she started blogging about her experiences back in the dawn of time (about 2003), when the word “blog” brought nothing to mind but a spill of some sort for most folks. For her day job, Kathleen’s an accomplished high school computer science teacher in Dallas, TX. We’re delighted to host Kathleen today, as she provides a little window into her “other” life as…
Today is the 36th Annual Great American Smokeout, an awareness day from the American Cancer Association encouraging people to quit smoking or make a plan to quit. Although smoking is often associated with lung cancer, it’s also really bad news for diabetes; it puts PWDs at an increased risk of heart disease and also affects diabetic neuropathy, because of a decrease in circulation. Icky…
Over the years, the Great American Smokeout has been celebrated with…
This past spring, one of our Grand Prize winners of the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge was 26-year-old Luciana Urruty, from Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. As a former fashion designer and a type 1 diabetic for 12 years, Luciana entered the competition with a concept called BLOB, a small, colorful device that discreetly delivers insulin. This is especially important for Luciana, because in Uruguay, insulin injections are essentially the only way for people with diabetes…
All across the world, countries are facing a difficult economic time. But there are few places in the developed world in as critical condition as Greece, where unemployment has reached staggering heights. Like the U.S., Greece’s healthcare is built on private insurance companies, and nowadays, more and more people with diabetes are unable to afford their medications.
In our continuing series on diabetes across the globe, Lena Zafeiriou, a 37-year-old type 1 living in Athens,…
For years now, we’ve complaining about the state of diabetes education in this country: overworked educators, near-impossible hoops that prospective CDEs have to jump through, and difficulties in getting reimbursed by insurance companies (so what else is new?). Who read my big exposé article on this issue waaay back in 2007?
We DOC advocates met with representatives from the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) at the second Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit in 2010, but that…