While we’re on the subject of diabetes and art this week, we want to introduce a couple of whizbang! projects that are taking the notion of diabetes education via artwork to a whole new level: in comic book form…
Learning About Diabetes, Inc.
The folks at the Arizona-based Learning About Diabetes, Inc., a non-profit charity focused on creating diabetes education materials, approached us during AADE to tell us about a new kind of interactive comic…
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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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Life with diabetes is a complicated, crazy mess, and explaining this mess to our loved ones is never easy. Naomi Kingery, a passionate 22-year-old diabetes advocate, author and Medtronic Diabetes employee in their Customer Relations department in Northridge, CA, was diagnosed with diabetes at age 12. Over the years she has written two books aimed at teens with diabetes, and yesterday she published her third book, this one an eBook aimed at trying to explain…
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Get out your paint, markers, crayons and glitter! It’s time for the 2nd Annual Diabetes Art Day! Hosted on Sept. 1st, Diabetes Art Day is the brainchild of Lee Ann Thill, a diabetes blogger and certified art therapist who shared the impact of art and diabetes here at the ‘Mine last summer.
Lee Ann launched Diabetes Art Day last year as an online initiative for the Diabetes Online Community to “tell a story about life…
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