They say that April showers bring May flowers…
Of course, this month has once again also brought us some great blog posts from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC)! Here are some of our faves, in no particular order:
Those of us in the D-Community know well the stresses of living with chronic illness… and so we saw our own stories in many of the posts included in this month’s Patients For A Moment blog…
Did you know the DiabetesMine team were secret artists, painting masterpieces with our lancets in our garage studios by night?
Yeah… April Fool’s! Actually we’ve got, well… close to zilch artistic ability.
But our new friend Cathy Leamy in the Boston area is one of those people who REALLY has talent, and is using her comic-creating capabilities to raise awareness on important healthcare topics.
Cathy tells us she’s been doing comics and cartoons for most…
I think we’d all be gold medalists in this game!
Thanks to talented contributor Terry Keelan, an active member of the Insulindependence athletics group, for this inspirational vision that goes along with our post D-Olympics post earlier this month!
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We have our definition of what counts as “weird” in the D-world, no?
Thanks again to social media guru, funny man, and illustrator Mike Lawson, who’s all over the DOC these days!
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Diabetes: the all-season sport…
Thanks to our DOC friend & cartoonist Mike Durbin, who’s come a very long way in the 3 years he’s been living with type 2 diabetes himself. And with a recent power outage in his area in northern Indiana, he had to endure even more “adventure” in his routine of living with diabetes. Glad it all worked out, Mike!
If you’d like to submit your own artwork for consideration (and chance to…