While we’re on the topic of women with diabetes this week, who hasn’t yet heard of the Girl’s Guide to Diabetes? It’s a must-visit for all us super-sweet females, run by type 1 sisters Sysy and Ana Morales. Sysy is a great DOC friend, frequent commenter here at the ‘Mine, a wife, mother of twin toddlers, diabetes advocate, and a freelance writer.
We are delighted to feature her take here today on a girls’ view…
Wil’s all over the map today with our latest edition of Ask D’Mine, the “curiously strong” diabetes advice column. That is of course our host, veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
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Send us your queries related to life with diabetes — whether it’s how to get a tan, or what to do in case of dying.
Ross from Washington state, type…
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Our Diabetic Partner Follies series returns with a bang here: Boy meets girl, they marry, girl gets diabetes, boy gets diabetes — oh boy! Enjoy:
A Guest Post by Jessica Apple, editor-in-chief of ASweetLife
“A really cute guy kept smiling at me,” I wrote in my diary when I was 18. “He looked like a football player.” I had just graduated from high school in Texas and was traveling in Israel with a group…
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Yup, you guessed it: it’s another edition of our new diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Send us your queries related to life with diabetes — nothing is off-limits here! (except of course specific medical instructions for your own care; that’s what doctors are for)
This week, Wil’s addressing a couple of burning issues about…
This recent testimonial in the Boston Globe, about a writer with type 1 diabetes who chose to keep his illness secret from girlfriend for quite some time, has stuck in my head. I can’t seem to stop thinking about the why’s and how’s of concealing your diabetes from people close to you. What a lot of work that would be! And to what end?
The writer, named Joseph Pierandozzi, starts off by stating that “bodily…