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AmyT on
February 18, 2011
Thanks to Cherise Shockley and the team at the DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy – #dsma) website, there is a new Blog Carnival making the rounds in the DOC (Diabetes Online Community). How’s that for a mouthful of acronyms? In case you’re not familiar with any of this, a Blog Carnival is a monthly feature in which bloggers respond to a prompt on their respective sites, and the following month all the responses are collected…
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Have we mentioned that we are hard core fans of Blünt Lancet? Nope, not those overused needles that haven’t been changed since daylight savings time ended. I’m talking about the awesome D-rock band that made the girls swoon back in the early ’90s!
Haven’t heard of them? Don’t worry, it’s not that you weren’t hip, even if you were old enough to remember their “heyday.” Is Blünt Lancet really a “blink-and-you’ll miss-them” has-been group making…
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AmyT on
January 14, 2011
The somewhat tenuous division between people with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes has always existed, but it’s been more in the public eye lately after being discovered by mainstream media (see the November Chicago Tribune article, ‘Diabetes’ Civil War‘). Just last week, the Globe and Mail published an article on whether or not type 1 diabetes should be renamed to distinguish it from type 2.
We thought it would be nice to ask…
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to take a few minutes today to introduce myself as the new assistant editor here at the ‘Mine. While I am not new to the diabetes community, some of you might not be as familiar with me as others and I wanted to make sure that we could all get to know each other.
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes nearly 17 years ago, on January 27, 1994 (funny how…
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