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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Our new correspondent Wil Dubois takes on another test strip-related issue here — one that could effect the future of health care coverage for PWDs all over the country…
by D’Mine Correspondent William “Lee” Dubois
Along with the mystery of how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, is the mystery of how many test strips diabetic children need to stay safe. At least that’s what an obscure panel of…
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Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it’s in a very prescriptive tone, as in “This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management.” Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emotional challenges of life with diabetes from the patient’s perspective. That’s why the premise of the book, A Life of Control, was so interesting. Released last fall, the book is edited by…
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Two years ago, Roche was the first to take the plunge, inviting a bunch of diabetes bloggers to visit their headquarters for a day of frank conversations and an “inside look” at how they make the products that keep us ticking. And they hosted us again last year at the CWD Conference.
On Friday, about 25 of us online advocates from the diabetes community were invited to Los Angeles for a day of similar interaction…
This month, we bring you more of our favorite posts from around the Diabetes Online Community. Luckily, there’s never a shortage of fun stuff to read.
Oh, and don’t forget to send us your favorites to be sure we’re ropin’ in all the best stuff each month!
Kim Vlasnik illustrates that there are some inadvertent advantages to life with diabetes in a creative and humorous way.
Candy Hearts blogger Wendy and her daughter are having…