By
AmyT on
November 21, 2012
The holidays are upon us! Which for us PWDs means spending time with friends, family and coworkers, who are generally well-intentioned but often try to “help us out” with what they know from Oprah, or something they heard from the friend of a friend’s cousin who knows about diabetes from what he read while standing in the grocery store aisle. Ugh!
Yes, the “diabetes police” often come out of the woodwork during the holidays. So…
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By
MikeH on
August 14, 2012
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…
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By
MikeH on
July 10, 2012
In case you didn’t get the memo: Yes, those of us with diabetes CAN eat ice cream.
Even though some outside the diabetes community don’t think so, and they try to convince us we can’t or shouldn’t, the fact remains that an ice cream sundae or vanilla waffle cone every once in a while isn’t going to kill us. It’s not the cause of any type of diabetes, either, and we’re not promoting unhealthy eating…
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Welcome once again to our weekly advice column, where we talk all about navigating life with diabetes. In this edition of Ask D’Mine, our host Wil Dubois ( veteran type 1, author and diabetes community educator) takes on another prime time TV show that recently “tried” to address diabetes, and he also gets at the real story behind insulin being used in the weightlifting world.
{Got your own questions? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Nancy from Missouri,…
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The Diabetes Blog Week prompt today asks us to ponder the question “What They Should Know,” i.e. what we in the Diabetes Community would tell someone who doesn’t have diabetes, given the chance. Our hostess Karen Graffeo encourages us to use this chance to do a little advocating …
I’ve been around the block a couple times since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a kid, so I’ll warn you: my list isn’t…
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