A couple of weeks ago, we hosted our very first DiabetesMine Book Review Giveaway — a smashing success! — and our winner took us fully by surprise. In fact, she reminded us that outside the cocoon of the DOC, where online cheerleading and pats on the back are common fare, there are plenty of people fighting for their lives with this disease.
Our winner was Audrie Eckerle, a 20-year-old type 1 from Idaho, who has…
Sitting down with your coffee? Good. It’s time again for the DiabetesMine Sunday Funnies, featuring the artwork of lifelong type 1 humorist Haidee Merritt. Last week she took on gadgets; this week it’s the reassuring things people say (Not)…
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Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it’s in a very prescriptive tone, as in “This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management.” Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emotional challenges of life with diabetes from the patient’s perspective. That’s why the premise of the book, A Life of Control, was so interesting. Released last fall, the book is edited by…
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This is kind of the flipside of yesterday’s post, if you will. As much as I enjoyed hearing the personal stories of so many women living with Type 1 diabetes, I was amazed — a bit shocked, even — to hear so many of these strong, beautiful ladies talk about denial and depression.
A few of them even said they had a hard time getting out of bed that morning to make their way to…