The year is coming to a close, and it’s hard to believe we now only have one month left of 2012! Time flies when you’re having fun, and the many happy posts we found around the diabetes blogosphere show that’s what we’ve all been doing this past month!
Of course, November is the biggest D-Month of the year, in which diabetes awareness is on the world’s stage. With World Diabetes Day itself on Nov. 14…
It’s officially National Diabetes Awareness Month as of today, Nov. 1 — so get out your blue and start celebrating/advocating!! We’re excited to kick off the month by hosting Best of the ‘Betes Blogs awards for the previous month, October. We were wowed to receive nearly 40 nominations!
But before we get to the awards, we wanted to mention a couple of serious items important to all members of our Diabetes Online Community:
We lost…
Another month has come and gone, and with that we are changing seasons. This final month of summer-turned-autumn was a busy one for our Diabetes Online Community, and it brought out some truly amazing — and also heartbreaking — posts. Below, in no particular order, is our initial “Fall Collection”:
D-Alert Dogs are fascinating, and the stories of those fellow PWDs who have them are always interesting to read. We’ve been following Tarra, whose blog, My Crazy …
We are winding down the summer months and making way for Fall. There’ve been so many great posts this past month… here’s our monthly snapshot of some we found particularly noteworthy (in no particular order):
We got a kick out of this post by Alexis Pollak over at I Run on Insulin, who tried to do a little advocacy when checking out at the local pharmacy! Totally laugh and sigh-worthy!
Meanwhile, D-Mom Hallie Addington…
Another month has come and gone… and once again, we find ourselves overwhelmed with all the outstanding posts that have been published in the Diabetes Online Community in the past month! Here is just a small sampling of noteworthy posts from bloggers we’re proud to know:
Celebrity shame moment: Conan O’Brien caught the DOC’s attention after a lame attempt to get a laugh earlier this month, when he used a Super Mario Brothers video game parody…