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…
No matter how old we get, our moms continue to fret, no…?
Thanks again to the talented Jerry King, an accomplished worldwide cartoonist who can always make us smile.
And to all the superhero D-Moms in our community, thanks for all you do!
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With Mother’s Day this Sunday (hope you didn’t forget!), we wanted to honor the many, many Superhero D-Moms out there, by highlighting how they have dealt with the transition from “regular mom-hood” to being a parental pancreas.
It’s tough to single out one in particular… But we’re excited to have found a mommy blogger who’s caring for not just one little girl with type 1 diabetes, but two.
You may recognize Heather Brand of Grand…
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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 you live day-in and day-out with diabetes, you often find clever, MacGyver-like workarounds to everyday problems — like using toupee glue to keep a CGM sensor stuck on your arm. Or using a pump reservoir as an insulin source to siphon the stuff off and then inject it with a syringe. Or a D-Mom’s use of one son’s pump to give a bolus-through-priming to another son who doesn’t have his connected. Or using a…
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