A Guest Post by Allison Blass
Last week, I wrote a post here about my new relationship with my boyfriend and how I was curious about how to educate him about diabetes without totally overwhelming the guy. Besides the little he had seen me do — test my blood sugar and wear an insulin pump — he was pretty clueless to the whole disease. So I sought out the help of my wise diabetes community…
Some of you may know that I’ve been working closely with fellow advocate and blogger Allison Blass these days. We have a ton in common, and I love her perspective on life with the Big D. Today, you can join me in cheering for her new relationship! She also wanted to share how difficult it can be starting out with someone wholly unfamiliar with her illness…
A Guest Post by Allison Blass
Growing up with…
As many of you know, I recently spoke with Rebecca Killion, one of a small group of people who works with the FDA as a Patient Representative, about the diabetes community’s current petition to the FDA. Rebecca has Type 1 diabetes herself, is a mother of two, and runs a professional development program at a law firm in Washington, DC.
I was fascinated by the fact that Rebecca has the “inside view” of workings at…
That’s what it feels like, anyway. A millennium of skin malfunctions over here that are making my diabetes and gluten intolerance genuinely intolerable of late! (A TMI post? Read at your own risk)
The latest bout of troubles kicked off this summer when I took the new Abbott Navigator CGM sensor for a test drive. The very latex-y adhesive used to adhere that product to the skin did not get along with my skin at…
In honor of THANKSGIVING this year, a special message about life and death from Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team. This initiative was born from the story of a young woman, a mom just 32 years old, who was dying of glioblastoma and desperately wanted to do so at home, with grace, rather than in the hospital. Have you and your family considered how you might handle end-of-life choices when the day comes? …
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