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		<title>18 Years with Diabetes: A Diaversary Post</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2012/01/18-years-with-diabetes-a-diaversary-post.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my 18th diaversary. That&#8217;s DOC slang for the anniversary of my diagnosis. I used to think 18 years with diabetes sounded like a looooong time. Growing up, most of the people I knew had diabetes for about as&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Do It? Invisible Illness Awareness Week</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/09/how-do-we-do-it-invisible-illness-awareness-week.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/09/how-do-we-do-it-invisible-illness-awareness-week.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life with Diabetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allison Blass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chronic illness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diabetes has never felt like an &#8220;invisible illness&#8221; to me. I can see the teeny-tiny puncture wounds on my fingers, the juice box that weighs down my purse, the stray test strip on the bedroom floor. The presence of diabetes&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Smart Woman&#8217;s Guide to Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/07/a-smart-womans-guide-to-diabetes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/07/a-smart-womans-guide-to-diabetes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emotions / Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guest Posts (alphabetically)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J-O]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Stockwell Mercer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diabetic women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emotions and diabetes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Smart Woman's Guide to Diabetes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an invisible illness, diabetes can feel terribly isolating, especially when first diagnosed. Many of us remember the first person we met who also had diabetes. For author Amy Stockwell Mercer, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 25 years&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>You Can Do This! (Homemade Jobbies)</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/you-can-do-this-homemade-jobbies.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/you-can-do-this-homemade-jobbies.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmyT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes Blogs and Web Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health 2.0]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allison and I are happy to be part of the “You Can Do This” diabetes awareness campaign!
Huge thanks to D-blogger Kim from Texting My Pancreas for initiating this campaign: calling all PWDs to share our stories and our struggles&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Diabetes in the UK: Free Care, But Behind the Times?</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/diabetes-in-the-uk-free-care-but-behind-the-times.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/diabetes-in-the-uk-free-care-but-behind-the-times.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Diabetes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Becky Thomson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=29947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Diabetes is certainly not created equal, and it&#8217;s even more varied when you take into account the various ways countries manage their health care system. Over the past few months, in our new international series, we&#8217;ve peeked into the lives&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Troubleshooting Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/troubleshooting-diabetes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/troubleshooting-diabetes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diabetes Blogs and Web Stuff]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=29794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only constant in diabetes is that it&#8217;s always changing. Numbers go up, numbers go down. Medication doses change. Your body changes. So how on earth do you figure out what to do when things start to go haywire? This&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Living with Cancer AND Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/living-with-cancer-and-diabetes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/06/living-with-cancer-and-diabetes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ativan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Campbell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemotherapy and diabetes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.diabetesmine.com/?p=29654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This upcoming Sunday is National Cancer Survivors Day, a worldwide observance the first Sunday in June, dedicated to &#8220;showing the world that life after a cancer diagnosis can be meaningful and productive.&#8221;
We almost hate to mention it, but there&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Life with Diabetes Down Under</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/life-with-diabetes-down-under.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/life-with-diabetes-down-under.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to diabetes, no place is safe. We have featured folks with diabetes from Spain to Germany to Canada and now we&#8217;re traveling across the globe to Australia to hear from Simon, a 35-year-old with LADA. 
Simon lives&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Contextual, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/its-contextual-stupid.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/its-contextual-stupid.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmyT</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insulin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few notes from my personal journal today:
At the risk of sounding harsh, I&#8217;m getting a little sick of how people — even those supposedly in the know — lay so much import on a single BG result. It&#8217;s&#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Unexpected Awesomeness of Diabetes</title>
		<link>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/the-unexpected-awesomeness-of-diabetes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/05/the-unexpected-awesomeness-of-diabetes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AllisonB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might not feel like much good can come from diabetes, but today&#8217;s D-Blog Week prompt encourages us to look at the bright side of diabetes:
In February the #dsma blog carnival challenged us to write about the most awesome&#8230;]]></description>
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