In the aftermath of my recent cancer scare, I’m feeling lucky to be alive these days. But it doesn’t make the diabetes any easier. Ironically, the days I work out hardest are often my worst BG control days, since I’m so hungry and craving carbs…
All of these thoughts brought me back to this post, which first appeared on the Diabetes OC site when I was “Featured Blogger of the Week” over the holidays. (I’m…
Following quickly on my post about Pharma companies warming up to social media, I got a call this week from some folks I know at Sanofi-Aventis. They are launching their very own YouTube channel to promote their Go-Insulin campaign aimed at offsetting the myths and misperceptions about insulin use among type 2 diabetics.
So far, there are seven videos posted — all patients’ personal stories — three of them featuring Gregg Pfaff, the deli owner…
This week, Lance Armstrong is riding his first tour on American soil since he retired after winning his 7th Tour de France. And do you know who will is riding alongside him? More than 100 of the world’s best bicyclists, including four riders from our own Team Type 1!
If you haven’t heard about them, you can easily Google them and find many great links and stories about “the only professional cycling team in the…
These are my daughter’s new high-tops:
And this is my new iPhone 3G cover:
Ironically, they cost about the same amount of money. And clearly, it was my 11-year-old who insisted that I get the MONKEY*PHONE.
What does any of this have to do with diabetes? Nothing, other than: it looks like a theme is developing here —
I’m gonna smile ’cause I deserve to (thank you, Fiona)
The MONKEY*PHONE makes me smile every time…
I don’t know if all you fellow patients realize this, but the big companies that make the medicines and devices we rely on (those giant Pharmas that we love to hate) are struggling something fierce to come to terms with Social Media. By that I mean they see the world of blogs, social networks, YouTube and wikis exploding all around them and they’re not quite sure what to do about it.
But with the Obama…