One of the 64-million-dollar questions in the diabetes world is why more of us don’t do a better job tracking our blood sugars.
I know that’s been a key question in my 28 years of living with type 1.
Fitting with the behavioral change theme of this year’s ADA Scientific Sessions, and how doctors can motivate us to “do better,” a breakfast session explored the issue of BG logging and why it’s such a challenge…
Diabetes stress and struggles don’t just smack at the PWD (person with diabetes). The rest of the family is impacted, too.
That’s the message two well-known type 1s and diabetes advocates — Dr. Bill Polonsky of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute and Former Miss America 1999 Nicole Johnson, who leads the Bringing Science Home program at University of South Florida Health (providing resources for patients and families affected by chronic diseases) — are pushing with a new…
A few years back, Dr. Bill Polonsky and his team at the Behavioral Diabetes Institute in San Diego introduced their now-famous Diabetes Etiquette cards — the world’s first recognition and pocket-sized guidance on how to avoid being rude and potentially hurtful when interacting with PWDs (people with diabetes), thank you very much!
At this year’s ADA, the BDI premiered the next-generation of these ueber-clever and useful little fold-out cards: “Diabetes Etiquette for Parents – What…
Last week we talked about Celiac Awareness Month. Turns out May is also National Mental Health Awareness Month, so for our ongoing 411 series on diabetes complications, today we’re tackling something that you might not even realize is a complication: depression.
Although not typically listed as a diabetes complication, it is well-documented that depression affects people with diabetes in large numbers. No surprise to us PWDs, considering all the crap we have to deal with:…
Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it’s in a very prescriptive tone, as in “This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management.” Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emotional challenges of life with diabetes from the patient’s perspective. That’s why the premise of the book, A Life of Control, was so interesting. Released last fall, the book is edited by…
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