Ever seen that Who’s Line is it Anyway bit called “If You Know What I Mean?“ Me loves that show! And this past week, as much fun as I had on vacation with my three girls in sunny SoCal, I felt like the only PWD on the planet. Hello, People Who Understand Diabetes – do you know what I mean?!
“Ticket – check! ID – check! Load of medical supply crap – check!” (if…
A lot of exciting things are on the horizon, so time for a quick update on the Madness to Come:
♦ Countdown: One week until takeoff – YIPES! Next Wednesday I board a plane for Indianapolis to attend the first-ever Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche Diabetes Care. Can’t wait to meet a whole gaggle of D-bloggers and Tweeters in person, finally.
(Again, if you didn’t get invited this year, please don’t fret: we…
I realized with a bit of shock that the anniversary of my diagnosis came and went this year without notice. Here it is July already, and it just dawned on me that on May 21, I hit six years with this exasperating illness. I suppose it’s a good thing that that day no longer knocks me for a loop.
Kind friends and relatives often ask me: “How are you doing — with your health (or…
Since I got Type 1 diabetes at the ripe old age of 30+, I never had the experience of “leaving the nest” with the Big D. So I recently asked fellow blogger and advocate Allison Blass what that was like: Did your parents fall apart? Were you scared to death, or more elated? What she came back with was actually more of a practical nature: the top tips she wished she’d known at the time.…
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I’m taking a cue from my buddy Scott Johnson and other bloggers, and enjoying a look back at what I was on about here a few years ago, via the WayBack Machine. Here’s what DiabetesMine roughly looked like back in 2005. Wow!
In the process, I stumbled on the following post, from April 2005, that seemed worth re-hashing: It’s still a double-whammy pain in the ass, every day of my life!!
Free Gifts with…
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