Anyone reading this blog knows that being diagnosed with diabetes isn’t easy, and the thought of sharing that news with people in your life can be daunting.
We’ve written about “coming out of the closet” before, but today we have a special story brought to us by our talented cartoonist, D-Advocate and correspondent Mike Lawson. He met a woman who had an especially hard time revealing her diabetes, which prompted him to “rethink” the whole…
We all need a little perspective sometimes.
Mine came on the heels of a week of diabetes conference activity and advocacy talk, and it was a reality check that slapped me upside the head while screaming at me about how much bigger the world is than diabetes.
One phone call was enough to remind me that, in the grand scheme, diabetes isn’t that big of a deal. Really. There are a whole lot of worse…
My D-blogger friend and intermittent correspondent Allison Blass has been living with diabetes since she was 8 years old. It’s pretty much all she knows. She copes with it her way, and strives to let others do the same. That’s why, this week, she’s musing on the theme of respecting each others’ choices in this diabetic life.
A Guest Post by Allison Blass
A few weeks ago, I announced that I was hosting a party…
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