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AmyT on
September 14, 2011
Employers enforce some stupid policies sometimes, for sure, but this one absolutely takes the cake! (or the chips, as it were) Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was forced to file a federal court suit against Walgreens for throwing a long-term employee with diabetes out on the street in 2008 after she ate a bag of $1.39 chips to offset a glucose low. She paid afterward, but hadn’t wanted to abandon her cash…
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By
AmyT on
August 20, 2011
Two more tough topics await in this week’s edition of our “curiously strong” diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine — hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Take a gander, and don’t forget to send us YOUR queries related to life with diabetes. Not much is off-limits here! (except of course specific medical instructions for your own care; that’s what doctors are for)
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us…
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Since I got Type 1 diabetes at the ripe old age of 30+, I never had the experience of “leaving the nest” with the Big D. So I recently asked fellow blogger and advocate Allison Blass what that was like: Did your parents fall apart? Were you scared to death, or more elated? What she came back with was actually more of a practical nature: the top tips she wished she’d known at the time.…
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