Last week, for the second year in a row, I attended the Lilly Diabetes Blogger Summit in Indianapolis and experienced up close and personal the place that’s been making the insulin that’s been keeping me alive for almost 30 years.
This was the sequel, so to speak, of the first Blogger Summit the pharma giant held last year, hosting a dozen diabetes bloggers at the company’s huge headquarters in Indy (where I live). But unlike the…
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Need help navigating life with diabetes? You can always Ask D’Mine! Welcome again to our weekly Q&A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil has some advice on what to do if your insulin pump breaks down and also how to keep insulin cool when it’s very hot outside.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Lisa, type 1 from New Mexico, asks: Why is it…
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We talked recently about how diabetes is part of a much larger chronic illness community, and that’s a strength we don’t often tap into. Sometimes innovations that can help us PWDs (people with diabetes) come from folks dealing with other conditions too — like a small Minneapolis, MN, firm called Visual Medical, that was formed about two years ago based on one woman’s family ordeal.
Her name is Rachael Jacques and she grew up with…
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AmyT on
April 19, 2013
From the long list of lesser-known indignities one experiences with diabetes comes the “lumps and bumps” problem… Once again we’d like to welcome long-time type 1 PWD and Columbia University journalism grad student Amanda Cedrone to add her two cents:
Special to the ‘Mine by Amanda Cedrone
Like most people, I’m not always as hyper-aware of my diabetes as I should be. While I feel like I have pretty decent control, there are times when…
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WilD on
March 16, 2013
Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
Just last week, Wil looked at how long we PWDs (people with diabetes) could generally survive without insulin in our systems. Today, he explores how long a bolus dose of this BG-lowering elixir might last in your system once given. Hint: it’s not cut-and-dry!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}…
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