We know our endos and diabetes educators don’t try to be Lucy, but it sometimes feels this way…
Props to social media guru, funny man, and illustrator Mike Lawson, who is also a lover of Peanuts-creator Charles Schultz and had some fun with a D-twist on his classic cartoon characters. Touché, Mike!
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Hey everyone! Today, we have a new “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, creator of the documentary film Sugar Babies.
This clip looks at one health care provider’s efforts to help a teenager commit to taking her insulin and checking her blood sugar at least four times a day. It’s not easy in those teen years, and this HCP is taking it one step at a time.
Episode 12: One BG Check…
Like us, you may wonder what qualifies a CDE to win the national award for Diabetes Educator of the Year?
Joanne Rinker was recently named Diabetes Educator of the Year for 2013 (they’re picked in advance of the coming year). She’s a North Carolina-based dietician-educator who’s helped build a unique program for spreading diabetes education across her state. She also focuses on the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss, AND she works as a coach…
There are a heck of a lot of carb-counting “tools” out there. Today, we’re taking a look at the utility of one in particular…
My 10-year-old son Rio and I have been watching the 1960s Sci-fi show Time Tunnel on DVD. It’s about two government scientists lost in time. Every week it’s a different century. So my first impression of the new SureCount “carb tool” was that it must have fallen out of the Time…
The topic for this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) blog carnival is a great one! It prompts us to directly address our healthcare providers (HCP) and certified diabetes educators (CDEs), telling them what we’d like THEM to learn from the Diabetes Online Community.
That’s a very important question, as we’re constantly thinking about how much we want our docs and educators to actually listen to us patients individually, rather than treating us all like…