With Father’s Day just a couple of days away (hint, hint!), we thought it would be cool to hear from a dad who’s involved with diabetes on many levels.
Pete Miselis is a D-dad who’s stepped up his advocacy into a professional role, working for a relatively new organization aiming to act as a watchdog for people making donations to various organizations pursuing a cure for type 1 — the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance (JDCA),…
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By
MikeH on
June 10, 2013
We know Scott Benner as the great D-Dad from New Jersey who’s behind the blog, Arden’s Day. You know, the diabetes daddy blog named for his daughter Arden who’s been living with type 1 since age 2 in 2006.
Of course, Scott’s been blogging and advocating for a number of years in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC). But he‘s been all over the news in 2013 with the release of his new book, Life Is…
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We recently learned about a group of graduate students at the University of Washington who are developing a contact lens capable of delivering insulin sans needle, a product called InsuLenz.
Ah, yet another stab (pun intended) at the non-invasive dream, this time on the insulin delivery front.
As PWDs who’ve been promised this type of technology for a while without any real progress, we’re generally quite skeptical of these types of products. That being said,…
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As most of us are aware, a diabetes diagnosis is difficult for everyone, including loved ones of the PWD. (We like to call them type 3s!)
That’s why we were excited to learn about Jay Rosenfeld from Houston, TX, who’s forming a virtual support group for a very specific group of type 3s — grandparents. It can be pretty scary for these folks to care for grandchildren dependent on insulin — always afraid something might…
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We talk a lot about living with diabetes around here (hey, we’re a D-blog after all!), but we’re keenly aware that other ailments affect many of our D-brethren.
This is Diabetes Blog Week and the prompt for today encourages us all to think about what it might be like living with another chronic condition… Turns out May is also Celiac Awareness Month, so it seemed like a doubly-good time to take another look at this…
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