When I was growing up, I believed there were many things I couldn’t do because of my type 1 diabetes.
Be a professional athlete. Fly planes. Go to the moon. Join the military. Even grow up to be a “real” news reporter out on the streets covering current events. Honestly, I never thought I’d get even get married.
All because of my diabetes.
Keep in mind, this was the 1980s and early 90s. And this…
We’ve heard so many people in the Diabetes Community say it feels like “starting over” when a diabetes diagnosis enters their world, because they have to learn and re-wire their brains with so much D-info.
But D-Mom Jamie Wolf in South Carolina has had to start over in more ways than one since that day more than 15 years ago, when her daughter Pamela “LaLa” Jackson, now 26, was diagnosed at age 10. The diagnosis…
As a person with type 1 diabetes who’s been trying to lose weight for as long as I can remember, one of the things I often hear from other PWDs is that it takes twice as long to lose weight with diabetes as it does without. Now, I’ve checked with my expert sources and they tell me that isn’t true, but that doesn’t mean losing weight with diabetes is a walk in the park. Jessica…
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If there’s one thing not lacking in this community, it’s people who are doing great things because of their own or a loved one’s diagnosis. You can put Kevin Marshall from Austin, TX, into that category.
Living with type 1 diabetes now for 17 years, Kevin’s story of learning to move past his anger and denial that came in his late teens with the help of spiritual study and prayer is nothing short of remarkable.…
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…