Happy Easter!
Today can mean a lot of different things for different folks — bunnies, baskets, family festivities and feasts, recognizing religious beliefs, or Charleston Heston movies. But for us PWDs (people with diabetes), certain things are always top of mind…
Well played, funny man and illustrator Mr. Mike Lawson. Here’s to “praying” everyone has a great day no matter what Easter means for you!
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Is there something in the water? Seriously… it’s like there’s a contagion out there at the moment spreading misinformation about diabetes.
Sadly, movies and media missing the point is nothing new for the Diabetes Community. It happens all too often.
But some recent high-profile examples demonstrate the continuing battle we face combatting myths and misconceptions around our disease.
First, there’s a new NBC show ironically titled Do No Harm (a referrence to the Hippocratic oath that all physicians…
A rose is a rose is a rose. And so is a magnolia… even the Steel Magnolias.
The 2012 remake of the movie Steel Magnolias that hit the silver screen 23 years ago aired worldwide on Sunday evening on Lifetime TV.
Like before, the film tells the story of a young woman from the South, Shelby, who is living with type 1 diabetes and dealing with the joys and stresses of being a newlywed. It’s basically a film…
Quick, name the movie!
“Drink your juice, Shelby!”
“Don’t talk about me like I’m not here!”
Those two lines are likely what’s burned into any PWD’s brain who saw… you guessed it! (if you read the post title)… the movie Steel Magnolias.
It’s the film in which Julia Roberts plays Shelby, a young woman with type 1 and dealing with family stresses in the U.S. South. There’s the famous scene in the beauty parlor, where…
Remember the story of filmmaker and D-Mom Jenny MacKenzie, who’s working on a documentary about life with diabetes called SUGAR BABIES?
Well, she has some updates about her project that features six families’ personal stories coping with different types of diabetes in America.
She and her team are now in the final stages of the filming process. There are just about two weeks left of a fundraising campaign that ends July 23, with the goal…