It’s D-Blog Week 2013! In its fourth year, this is a great “coming together” of the diabetes blogging community around selected topics of note to our community. The effort was spearheaded by Karen Graffeo of the blog Bitter-Sweet. You can learn more about this effort, and sign up yourself if interested, here.
There’s a list of set topics to tackle each day this week, and for Opening Day today, we bring you:
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We know our endos and diabetes educators don’t try to be Lucy, but it sometimes feels this way…
Props to social media guru, funny man, and illustrator Mike Lawson, who is also a lover of Peanuts-creator Charles Schultz and had some fun with a D-twist on his classic cartoon characters. Touché, Mike!
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Diabetes and frustration. They’re kind of synonymous, right?
Oh how we appreciate the visions of T1 blogger and illustrator Kim Vlasnik, who brought us this new yoga move (the pump roll?) today
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We are halfway through D-Blog Week, and today’s theme is “10 Things I Hate About Diabetes.” Pretty self-explanatory!
When I heard about this theme, I immediately flashed back to the classic teen comedy of a similar name, starring Julia Stiles and the late Heath Ledger. Who remembers that emotional climactic scene in which Julia reads her “hate poem” to Heath (which gives the movie its name)?
Of course, I just had to do some digging…
Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it’s in a very prescriptive tone, as in “This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management.” Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emotional challenges of life with diabetes from the patient’s perspective. That’s why the premise of the book, A Life of Control, was so interesting. Released last fall, the book is edited by…
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