Particularly apropos for Diabetes Awareness Month – a little DAA (diabetes attitude adjustment):
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes way back in 1994, when I was only 8 years old. Even as a child, certain words always stuck out to me whenever I was at the doctor’s office or read articles about diabetes.
In control.
Management.
Stable.
Sound familiar? For a long time, I’ve been told that diabetes was in my power to control,…
As PWDs (people with diabetes), we face a huge laundry list of things we’re supposed to do, and an equally long list of things we’re not supposed to do, including having pedicures, getting waxed, or making any kind of permanent change to our bodies, namely getting pierced or tattooed. But where did these rules come from? And are they really worth listening to in this day and age? Today, Allison and I take a look…
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This is one of those creations from my quirky 9-year-old that I just had to post. This was meant to be the “rules for upstairs” in our house:
Kind of makes a great credo for certain circumstances in life, ay? Except that the eating and drinking parts are often prerequisites for No. 4
But what I actually wanted to talk about today in the wake of Friday’s World Diabetes Day awareness bonanza was the Rules…