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Diabetes Support or Suspicion? (aka Don’t Question My Insulin Dosing as Long as I’m Healthy)

By AmyT on March 29, 2010

Everyone lives with — and copes with — diabetes in their own unique way. But some of us are more unique than others? No, that’s not the point. Today, a perspective from yet another kindred spirit, Hannah McDonald, a self-proclaimed nerd who lives in Pennsylvania and has been blogging about the Big D since 2008:

A Guest Post by Hannah McDonald, of Dorkabetic

Hello, DiabetesMine Readers.
You may have found my blog before, or you may…

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Clarifying LADA (Type 1 Diabetes in Adults)

By AmyT on March 16, 2010

When I met fellow D-writer Catherine Price for coffee recently, I immediately gushed about everything we had in common: two brunette journalist-types living in the SF Bay Area, both diagnosed a few years ago with LADA (or so I thought). Catherine gave me a sideways look, and then began grilling me about the formal definition of LADA. I had to admit, it’s pretty fuzzy. Today, I gratefully present you with the results of her investigation…

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JDRF’s New ‘Adults with Type 1 Toolkit’ A Good Start

By AmyT on February 26, 2010

One of the common criticisms of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is its overwhelming emphasis on children and parents of children with diabetes — with little to no recognition that kids with diabetes, well… grow up. Or that ever-growing numbers of us are being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as adults. God knows I’ve been vocal in pestering the JDRF on this issue over the past couple of years.
Slowly, the organization has branched out,…

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Calling All Grassroots Diabetes Advocates: Unite to Get Noticed!

By AmyT on February 17, 2010

If you run a diabetes blog, web site, or small organization doing some kind of diabetes advocacy work, you will want to know about this: a new ‘Diabetes Advocates Program‘ that can help you and your work get noticed.
Basically, TuDiabetes founder Manny Hernandez and David Edelman of DiabetesDaily put on their thinking caps after last summer’s Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche. Everyone in attendance was in the same boat: working hard on…

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Dodging Diabetes: How Andy Found the Yellow Brick Road

By AmyT on February 16, 2010

There are so many surprising and wonderful D-stories out there. Sometimes you just have to share. Andy Tiedeman, a 28-year-old self-proclaimed “geek” from the DC area, was 13 years old when he was diagnosed. We found each other recently through the web, and his unusual campaign to raise awareness. Dodgeball for diabetes, really? (I hated that sport in school) But each one of us has to find our own way to cope, and to turn…

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