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WilD on
December 1, 2012
Got diabetes questions? You came to the right place! Ask D’Mine is our weekly advice column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil explores a so-called “lazy pancreas” as described by a doctor, and also how PWDs may need a tad more Vitamin D than other folks.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Rita, mystery type from Missouri, writes: Since I was 18, I…
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AmyT on
October 12, 2012
TGIF, right? And welcome to the second in our new series of “life with diabetes” videos created for us here at the ‘Mine and for our sister community DiabeticConnect by filmmaker and D-mom Jenny MacKenzie.
This week’s episode is about a family learning to navigate life with type 2 diabetes — where eating isn’t as much fun as it used to be, for one thing.
Episode 2: Kids with Type 2 Diabetes
Have a child…
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WilD on
September 29, 2012
Happy Saturday! Welcome to Ask D’Mine, our weekly advice column hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois. This week, Wil takes on the Evolution of Diabetes, as it occurs in your body over time — and you know, the end of the honeymoon phase!
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Lisa, type 1 from Texas, writes: Hi! I’m 27 and was diagnosed with diabetes last summer. When I was…
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In theory, diagnosing diabetes should be fairly simple. Have a fasting blood sugar over 127 mg/dL? Congratulations, you’re probably in the D-Club. Have a blood sugar reading over 200 mg/dL any time? Congratulations, you’re definitely a club member.
But not so fast! Just because you’ve been inducted into the club that no one voluntarily joins, that doesn’t mean the path forward is clear. Things just aren’t the same — or as easy to recognize — as…
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By
AmyT on
September 24, 2012
You all know about Diabetes Art Day today, right? It’s an ever-growing “web-based initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to ‘tell a story’ about life with diabetes though creative visual expression,” dreamed up and organized by one of our fave DOC’ers Lee Ann Thill.
Launched in 2010, the initiative has amassed an incredible gallery of art that illustrates what many people with diabetes struggle to express in words. Check out the gallery collections from 2010 and…
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