Here we are on our final Friday in the month of January, and we find ourselves wrapping up our Life with Diabetes (LWD video series that’s been a regular find here for the past four months.
In this week’s final snippet, we visit with a teenager with diabetes struggling to keep her weight down and manage her blood sugar levels, all the while making it through college courses and working a job too, and, you…
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…
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.…
Keeping up with our new Friday series, we bring you the next “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie. This week’s clip dives into the scary deep end of the diabetes world by looking at the high costs of keeping up with daily management.
But despite the costs, this family’s motto for their kiddo: “Just Keep Swimming!”
Episode 6: Costs of D-Management
Anybody got any tips you’d like to share on managing…
Welcome to the first Friday of November! To kick off the month, we have another “life with diabetes” video short straight from Sugar Babies film creator Jenny MacKenzie.
The video this week is another look at “coming out” with your diabetes — a Brooklyn teenager’s challenges in telling others about his diabetes, navigating school life, and his mom’s worries about his future.
Episode 5: Before and After the School Bell Rings
How do…