Autumn is just around the corner (sniff!) … So as you wind down from your summer vacation, let us help you catch up on some of the gems of the diabetes blogosphere that you may have missed while you were away:
It was just a typical day at Starbucks until Nicole Purcell encountered a woman suffering a severe hypoglycemic reaction. Nicole’s compassion and quick thinking inspires us to give her the award for PWD We’d…
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Ever feel like you’re just faking it? Just going through the motions of having a “normal day” when in fact your diabetes is dragging you down (and up… and down)?
Yup, type 1 artist Haidee Merritt feels your pain…
Speaking of pain, we are sad today to bid a fond farewell to Haidee as our regular weekly artist here at the Sunday Funnies. She is off to new frontiers. We wish her all the best of…
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Ever wonder how diabetes educators are trained to deal with us patients? That’s the most intriguing thing for us about covering the American Association of Diabetes Educators annual conference. Out of 15,000 attendees, we could probably count the non-CDE attendees on one hand. Not many actual patients are in attendance, so these CDEs end up talking and learning about “us” in absentia.
One session title that particularly intrigued us was titled “Dealing with Patients Who…
It’s the little stuff with diabetes they don’t tell you about that sometimes gets you down, right? Like grappling with skin irritations and finding test strips stuck in places they do not belong (thx Scott!).
As usual, our beloved T1 illustrator Haidee Merritt has the images that say it all:
Ahem… yeah.
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It’s bathing suit season, oh joy!
And if that weren’t enough to get you down, swimming takes on a whole new persona in the alternate world of our type 1 illustrator Haidee Merritt.
Um… Jump on in — the water’s fine?!
Missed last week’s Sunday Funnies? Paddle over here.
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