Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…
Are you ready for the Readi Pak? No, not the Ready Pac salads. And not Redi-Pak defibrillator electrodes, either. The diabetes Readi Pak is a new “Go-Bag” that features a large main compartment with a removable diabetes accessory case that lives in its own hidden pocket.
This isn’t the latest thing from any of the dozens of existing diabetes case and bag makers. No, this new bag is the brain child of Sanofi, the giant…
How many of you just hate lugging around tons of diabetes junk, only to find yourself rifling through the black hole of your bag, looking for your glucose meter or spare insulin pen? Jen Dorn, a 34-year-old type 1 diabetic for the last 20 years, sympathizes. After lugging around her own medical-looking pack for years, she finally decided to pursue her dream to create a line of stylish but functional handbags and messenger bags for…
Read more »
What woman with diabetes can’t relate to this?!
Thanks to funny gal, CDE, and interim D-artist Theresa Garnero for this one!
* ENTER THE FUNNIES *
We’ve got a roster of talented D-folks regularly joining us here at the ‘Mine, but we’re still looking for folks from the community who’d like to be included in our monthly DOC Cartoonist Spotlight.
If you’re an artist with a funny bone for D-art, we’d love to hear…
So much diabetes news, so little attention to the individuals “in the trenches”…
It seems we’re bombarded with headlines, often about developments from the major pharmaceutical and device companies that do play a key role in how we live and manage our diabetes. But what about the folks that don’t have a billion-dollar budget? The passionate people out there working to make an impact on life with diabetes from the “bottom up”?
In this new…