By
AmyT on
September 22, 2010
Good thing poetry is timeless. I’m a little late getting this out, but wanted to shine the spotlight on a new(ish) diabetes book that was created not by a doctor or medical professional or even a patient sharing his/her personal journey, but by the aggregate of our own awesome D-community: “No Sugar Added Poetry.”
The book is a compelling and sometimes heart-wrenching collection of 39 poems written by people touched by diabetes from around the…
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By
AmyT on
August 20, 2010
Anyone else feel like keeping up with reading around the diabetes / health communities online is becoming overwhelming? Yup. And that’s a good thing, because it validates that what we’re all doing here is meaningful. Don’t believe me? Just ask CNN’s big-shot medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, who just published a book called The Empowered Patient (nope, I haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list!).
Here’s what I have been reading of late:
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By
AmyT on
August 11, 2010
Today’s guest post is penned by William “Lee” Dubois, a Type 1 diabetic, diabetes educator, and fellow D-blogger at LifeAfterDx.
Wil has been called the “Godfather of Continuous Glucose Monitoring” because he was the 30th person in the whole United States to get “hooked up” to a CGM system when they became available five years ago; as far as anyone knows, he’s now the ultimate veteran, having continuously used a CGM longer than anyone else…
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Arthur Ainsberg is the successful director of a New York-based financial firm. He is also a survivor himself and successful “hobby author,” who is just completing a new book on the discovery of insulin — “a drug that turned a death sentence into something more akin to a chronic nuisance.”
According to early reviews, his book Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle is “an important read for…
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Funny what you find when you clean out your closets. As I was sorting through some of the piles of diabetes-related materials in my office last week, I uncovered this cheery-looking little book called “My Life as a Pancreas” by Priscilla Call Essert:
Someone had sent it to me for review a while back, and I guess I set it aside thinking it was a kids’ book. Luckily, this time I grabbed it for some…
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