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Gina Capone: How Pregnancy with Diabetes Saved My Life

By AmyT on August 30, 2012

We were over the moon when we heard that D-blogger Gina Capone, founder of Diabetes Talkfest and The Diabetes Resource, was expecting a little one. We knew that Gina’s road to parenthood was not an easy one. Before conception, pregnancy and childbirth, many women with diabetes struggle to prepare for conception by achieving ultra-tight glucose control.  Gina, now in her mid-30s, discusses what it took for her and her husband to have a baby, and…

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Grassroots Push for Continuous Glucose Monitors: Hear This!

By AmyT on September 11, 2008

Listen up, insurance providers: People with diabetes want the freedom to at least test out new continuous glucose monitoring technology to improve their lives with diabetes.  And many of them (many, many of them) are not taking no for an answer.
Along with the JDRF, Gina Capone, Founder of the Diabetes Talkfest chat site, has led a grassroots “CGM Anti-Denial Campaign” that’s quickly reaching critical mass proportions. Last month, Gina, who’s been denied coverage for…

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