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AmyT on
January 15, 2010
Due to recent exciting news events, I’ve moved my trip down memory lane to Friday this week…
Another wonderful fellow D-blogger, Lee Ann Thill, recently posed a question on Facebook: “who exactly is responsible when people with diabetes aren’t ‘good’ diabetics?” Over 30 replies ensued, as this perennial question brings up all sorts of fundamental issues of living with diabetes: proper access to education and medical care, family support, diligence and “compliance,” and issues of…
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Welcome, partners and loved ones of diabetics. It’s been a while since we’ve visited this series by and for you all, where you can share your perspective on what it means to live with diabetes “from the other side.”
First off, I’d like to announce that fabulous fellow D-blogger and author Wil Dubois is working on his next project, “a book for those poor people… stuck with us T1′s and T2′s in their lives.” He’s…
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AmyT on
December 21, 2009
Happy Mid-Holiday Season, Dear Readers. We had a modest turnout for the DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Stories Contest this year, which wasn’t such a bad thing, as it turns out; we judges still had a hard time choosing winners.
In the end, we tried to focus on situations that “typify” what we PWDs tend to go through at this season.
Four stories, two “good” and two “bad” were selected — although the crossover was quite striking in…
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AmyT on
December 16, 2009
As a sort of addendum to this Monday’s post, I can’t believe I wrote the following testimonial four whole years ago. Ever more confirmation that the more things change, the more they stay the same:
Diab-entity Crisis
Sometime in the middle of last week, as I was gazing at my blog banner and mulling over my next post, I had a kind of out-of-body sensation for a moment: Am I still the same person who…
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AmyT on
December 9, 2009
Special for “hump day”: I’m revisiting this post from 2007, which I’ve referred to often whenever I second-guess myself about how to talk to my kids about living with diabetes:
Oh, Glorious Middle!
I’ve shared this tidbit with some of you already: whenever my girls and I are having a bit of relaxed fun, laughing and taking things lightly, my feisty 7-year-old perks up with a sideways grin and says, “Mommy, are you in the…
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