By
AmyT on
October 25, 2010
Michelle Page Alswager is a long-time diabetes advocate, whose mission has taken on new meaning since the sudden and tragic passing of her son, Jesse, in February of this year at only 13. Michelle is a former Executive Director for the Western Wisconsin chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but continues to volunteer and participate in their Ride to Cure Diabetes, as well as working with the group Triabetes, a triathlon club for PWDs. …
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By
AmyT on
October 22, 2010
It doesn’t seem possible. In this day and age, with all the advanced medicines and devices, the diligent attention so many of us pay to our glucose control and that of our diabetic children… How can a healthy, happy child with diabetes, seemingly in such good control, simply pass away in her sleep without a peep or a warning sign that might have alerted her loved ones that something was wrong?
But it did happen,…
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AmyT on
October 11, 2010
One of the funner things that came out of last week’s Health 2.0 developer’s conference in San Francisco was also one of the most unexpected: a new approach to making health stuff “sexy”…
Roni Zeiger is Chief Health Strategist at Google, where he helps lead the Google Health PHR application and all sorts of health search efforts; Alexandra Drane is President and Co-Founder of Eliza Corporation, which develops interactive communications programs for healthcare companies. Who…
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AmyT on
September 20, 2010
I’m a huge Crystal Bowersox fan. Personally, I think this husky-voiced “busker” should have won this year’s American Idol competition, but it’s still freakin’ amazing to take 2nd place in this larger-than-life national competition.
Those of you who follow entertainment news (or this blog) know by now that Crystal is “one of us” — a person with diabetes (PWD). She’s a type 1 and insulin pumper, currently using her new-found fame to help fellow PWDs.…
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Richard Vaughn is a bit of a legend in the diabetes online community. Known more widely as Richard157 on several diabetes forums, Richard began sharing his story of living with type 1 diabetes for over 60 years via forum posts in 2007 and has become an inspiration for many. Last week, Richard also became a self-published author, releasing his memoirs, Beating The Odds: 64 Years of Diabetes Health, on Amazon.com.
Born in 1939 in rural…
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