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…
If you’re at all interested in diabetes technology and patient advocacy, you should get to know Bernard Farrell. He’s a software architect, patient advocate, diabetes technology blogger and father of six (!) In his “spare time” he’s agreed to act as one of our expert judges in this year’s DiabetesMine Design Challenge, the $25,000 innovation contest open for submissions until this Friday, April 29 — coming up fast!
Bernard has had type 1 diabetes himself…
Today is the anniversary of the birth of our fearless leader, AmyT.
In honor of this momentous occasion, I, her loyal assistant editor and Gal Friday, have taken over for the day to organize a special tribute to this fabulous woman, who has provided us with countless reports of late-breaking diabetes news and represented the patient community with candor, integrity and pizzazz. The DOC certainly wouldn’t be the same without her!
People often ask me…
Our Diabetic Partner Follies series returns with a bang here: Boy meets girl, they marry, girl gets diabetes, boy gets diabetes — oh boy! Enjoy:
A Guest Post by Jessica Apple, editor-in-chief of ASweetLife
“A really cute guy kept smiling at me,” I wrote in my diary when I was 18. “He looked like a football player.” I had just graduated from high school in Texas and was traveling in Israel with a group…
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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