You can walk away from diabetes-focused conferences with more than dry science and research news. Really, you can! That’s what I did recently after attending the Diabetes Today and Tomorrow conference held in the suburbs of Detroit on May 12. I took away two important nuggets of information that can help me better live with diabetes:
First, the key to achieving post-exercise stability in blood sugars may very well be in chocolate milk (!)
Secondly,…
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We are in the third day of the annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today is One Thing to Improve. As Karen instructs: “Yesterday, we gave ourselves and our loved ones a big pat on the back for one thing we are great at. Today, let’s look at the flip side. We probably all have one thing we could try to do better. Why not make today…
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Welcome to Day 2 of the third annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today: One Great Thing. Karen explains: “Living with diabetes (or caring for someone who lives with it) sure does take a lot of work, and it’s easy to be hard on ourselves if we aren’t ‘perfect.’ But today it’s time to give ourselves some much-deserved credit. Tell us about just one diabetes thing you…
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I have been thinking about depression a lot lately. And not just because May is National Mental Health Awareness Month. When I wrote our post on Diabetes and Depression last year for our 411 series on diabetes complications, I had no idea that this particular complication was going to impact my life in such an unexpected way.
Earlier this spring, I found out that my friend, Caitlin McEnery, a type 1 PWD for 25 years…
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