Hey everyone! Today, we have a new “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, creator of the documentary film Sugar Babies.
This clip looks at one health care provider’s efforts to help a teenager commit to taking her insulin and checking her blood sugar at least four times a day. It’s not easy in those teen years, and this HCP is taking it one step at a time.
Episode 12: One BG Check…
The results are in for our 2012 DiabetesMine D-Moment Holiday Sweepstakes!
We asked PWDs everywhere to share, in a few sentences, their big “aha!” diabetes moment of 2012, as in:
What struck you hardest this year, in that you learned or observed something new?
The idea being that whether you’ve had diabetes for two months or 20 years, there always seems to be an “aha moment” to be had.
The contest ran from Dec. 3…
Welcome back to our Friday “life with diabetes” video short series from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. This week’s snippet looks at a teenager with diabetes who’s trying to do better in his D-management, but is facing that common sense of burnout that we PWDs (people with diabetes) know all too well.
In this boy’s words, diabetes burnout is when “you don’t care about diabetes — period,” and your D seems like “a…
Welcome again to our Friday video shorts, where we’re bringing you a weekly “life with diabetes” snippet from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies.
In this week’s clip, we get a peek inside the world of a teenager with diabetes who says she weighed 311 pounds. But by piecing together and personalizing a management plan, she was able to lose a whopping 140 pounds (!) and get her health on track.…
Calling all artists and creative types, or anyone who might be inspired to make some diabetes-themed art… The third annual Diabetes Art Day is coming up this coming Monday, Sept. 24!
Over 80 people participated in the inaugural online event in 2010, and that number more than doubled to 170 last year. So, at that rate and with the event falling a little later in the month (it was previously held on Sept. 1), this…