A Guest Post by Allison Blass
Last week, I wrote a post here about my new relationship with my boyfriend and how I was curious about how to educate him about diabetes without totally overwhelming the guy. Besides the little he had seen me do — test my blood sugar and wear an insulin pump — he was pretty clueless to the whole disease. So I sought out the help of my wise diabetes community…
It’s finally here — the compilation of all the wonderful nuggets of wisdom from YOU, the diabetes community, that you shared with us here during the recent Holiday Survival Sweepstakes event.
In case you missed that whole to-do, we asked PWDs across the community to share some of their best tips about surviving the holiday season with diabetes: on exercise, stress, managing the “diabetes police,” travel, and of course, food.
Rather than lose all the…
When I first introduced the notion of a “Pimp Your Diabetes” contest a while back, plenty of you seemed enthusiastic indeed about applying for a free diabetes makeover:
“This is a wonderful idea. It will surely prove that however bad one’s diabetic health is, the patient can be saved by diabetes experts.”
“Will the diabetes makeover be free to the participants? That would make it the chance of a lifetime…a full diabetes/healthy lifestyle makeover and…
The New Year has begun and you’re just brimming with hope and anticipation at a brand new YOU! Correct? But making those lasting changes can be very difficult when you’re striking out on your own and before you can say “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” you’re back to your old (not-always-so-desirable) habits… don’t I know it!
For just this reason, I have teamed up with an innovative company called Insulite Laboratories to bring you “NEW…
A number of you asked about the OmniPod, so here you go: Below please find the third video in our Liberty Medical series on Insulin Pumping. This one’s all about “going wireless” — a personal fetish of mine, as you may know.
Again, this may not be ground-breaking news to you Type A-Personality Type 1 diabetics out there, but it IS new information for many PWDs, who’ve never had the good fortune to be…