diabetes films

LWD (Life with Diabetes) Video Friday: Battling the Burnout Blues

By AmyT on December 21, 2012

Welcome back to our Friday “life with diabetes” video short series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. This week’s snippet looks at a teenager with diabetes who’s trying to do better in his D-management, but is facing that common sense of burnout that we PWDs (people with diabetes) know all too well.
In this boy’s words, diabetes burnout is when “you don’t care about diabetes — period,” and your D seems like “a…

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Big Doings in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC)

By MikeH on August 20, 2012

Guess what? There’s a lot happening in the Diabetes Online Community!
No surprise, right?
But we’re proud to offer some tidbits on the details of successes in our community. Bravo, Friends!
→ First, the Diabetes Hands Foundation has opened up a call for grant proposals for this year’s Big Blue Test! Details can be found here. In short, there are five $10,000 grants that will be given out to U.S.-based non-profits based on certain criteria,…

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Type 1 Diabetes: First Impressions Count!

By AmyT on May 24, 2012

OK, so this is a promo video. It introduces yet another new online community for people with type 1 diabetes, this one founded by a team led by Jonny White out of Canada, that’s also working on a full-length documentary by the same name, which we wrote about here.
But despite its call for sponsors (solicitation bent), I couldn’t resist the urge to share this video, which for the first time ever, seems to scream…

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