Quick, look at your wrist.
Is there a medical alert bracelet there? If not, do you wear one when you travel? Ever wear one, fellow PWDs (people with diabetes)? Or maybe not a bracelet but a dog tag or other kind of alert?
If you’re anything like I’ve been for most of my three decades with diabetes, the answers to those questions is a resounding “No.”
Here’s a news flash from my end of the…
Doesn’t it sometimes seem like we’re just swimming in circles with our diabetes, something like this…?
Ha! Thanks to the artistic talents of Jeannette Golubovic, a fellow PWD living with LADA, who works as an attorney in Texas. I guess the best we can all do is take that famous advice from Finding Nemo
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Happy Saturday, and welcome back to our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine! hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
Just last week, Wil tackled some pressing questions about what our insulin needs are and how it actually works. Today he explores another aspect of this BG-lowering elixir as it works (or doesn’t) in people with diabetes (PWDs): insulin resistance, and whether you can be living with two types of diabetes at…
Last summer we showcased some fellow PWDs (people with diabetes) over in Europe, who were carrying the Olympic Torch leading up to the Summer Olympics in London.
One of those folks is 16-year-old Hannah Jarrett, who lives in South Wales and has become an up-and-coming diabetes advocate in the five years since she was diagnosed. We’re featuring Hannah today as part of our ongoing Global Diabetes Series, in which we bring you different perspectives on life…
Sunnyvale-based Asante Solutions, which is just launching its new Snap pump, is going where no diabetes company has gone before with their marketing! They’re keeping it real and funny and even a bit edgy — which we at the ‘Mine love. But there is some concern that they’ve gone too far…
Please take a gander at these two videos being previewed exclusively here, and provide some community feedback below. They’d love to know (as would…