In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause.
In New York, another teenager helped raise a record amount of money for his local JDRF walk.
We tend to think of teens as “hanging out” and wasting a lot of time, but these two kids exemplify how younger generations of…
Welcome back! It’s Saturday again, so time to curl up with a cup of tea/coffee and our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! This week, veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois tackles a question we’ve never heard before about the probability that continuous glucose monitor (CGM) use might lead to cancer (?). He also has some thoughts about how to manage non-diabetes medical professionals when you’re in the hospital… should an emergency situations…
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There’s been a longstanding discussion among patient advocates over the need for new, more descriptive names that would better differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The debate has hit a climax this week, in the wake of a new online petition issued by two passionate D-Moms, who’ve gathered more than 2,800 signatures to date and even enlisted the support of some renown researchers in their call for a “rebranding” of disease types.
The…
We’ve heard so many people in the Diabetes Community say it feels like “starting over” when a diabetes diagnosis enters their world, because they have to learn and re-wire their brains with so much D-info.
But D-Mom Jamie Wolf in South Carolina has had to start over in more ways than one since that day more than 15 years ago, when her daughter Pamela “LaLa” Jackson, now 26, was diagnosed at age 10. The diagnosis…
When her daughter Tallia (Tally, for short) was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in September of 2007, Donna Annese was one of those moms who wasn’t taking it sitting down.
Within a year of diagnosis, Donna helped her daughter get started pumping, and then in November 2008, the family began creating unique cases for pumps and other D-supplies under the label Tallygear (named after her Tally, of course!). Their main product is something called the Tummietote, a…