We love to spotlight our wonderful readers here at the ‘Mine, especially because we have some really fabulous, accomplished people in our community. For example, Caroline Sheehan, a type 1 PWD for 8 years, who recently won our giveaway of the book Your Medical Mind. Not only is Caroline a good friend of mine, but she’s an accomplished Laughter Yoga instructor (featured for that last Fall) and has run two marathons — and she’s only 25 years old!…
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AmyT on
December 13, 2011
We’re very excited to announce the winners of our landmark 20,000 Voices Giveaway! Over the past seven years, we’ve hosted thousands of visitors, and your thousands of comments full of great input have made this site what it is. When we saw that we were coming up on our 20,000th comment, we decided to take the opportunity to honor YOU with some nice prizes!
- the Grand Prize is a $200 gift card to the…
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Another month has come and gone — and in the spirit of this past weekend’s Thanksgiving holiday, we are thankful to be part of such an amazing blogging community. Here’s a small sampling of noteworthy posts from bloggers we’re thankful to know:
November was of course National Diabetes Awareness Month and there was a lot of awareness-raising going on in the DOC. Gina hosted the 7th annual DBlog Day, Lee Ann organized the World Diabetes Day…
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AmyT on
November 28, 2011
We’re about to reach our 20,000th reader comment here at the ‘Mine! No kidding. Incredible, right?
Without a doubt it is YOUR VOICES that make the difference!
Your visits and your input are what make our efforts worthwhile, and what makes this site worth visiting every day, in our humble opinion… for example, this post, with over 970 comments!
We want to THANK YOU ALL for speaking up, speaking out, and supporting us for seven…
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Today is the 36th Annual Great American Smokeout, an awareness day from the American Cancer Association encouraging people to quit smoking or make a plan to quit. Although smoking is often associated with lung cancer, it’s also really bad news for diabetes; it puts PWDs at an increased risk of heart disease and also affects diabetic neuropathy, because of a decrease in circulation. Icky…
Over the years, the Great American Smokeout has been celebrated with…
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