The Diabetes Blog Week prompt today asks us to ponder the question “What They Should Know,” i.e. what we in the Diabetes Community would tell someone who doesn’t have diabetes, given the chance. Our hostess Karen Graffeo encourages us to use this chance to do a little advocating …
I’ve been around the block a couple times since being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a kid, so I’ll warn you: my list isn’t…
You can walk away from diabetes-focused conferences with more than dry science and research news. Really, you can! That’s what I did recently after attending the Diabetes Today and Tomorrow conference held in the suburbs of Detroit on May 12. I took away two important nuggets of information that can help me better live with diabetes:
First, the key to achieving post-exercise stability in blood sugars may very well be in chocolate milk (!)
Secondly,…
We are in the third day of the annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today is One Thing to Improve. As Karen instructs: “Yesterday, we gave ourselves and our loved ones a big pat on the back for one thing we are great at. Today, let’s look at the flip side. We probably all have one thing we could try to do better. Why not make today…
Welcome to Day 2 of the third annual Diabetes Blog Week, hosted by Karen Graffeo over at Bitter-Sweet Diabetes.
The topic today: One Great Thing. Karen explains: “Living with diabetes (or caring for someone who lives with it) sure does take a lot of work, and it’s easy to be hard on ourselves if we aren’t ‘perfect.’ But today it’s time to give ourselves some much-deserved credit. Tell us about just one diabetes thing you…
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I’ve often read about doctors whose perspective changed drastically once they were diagnosed with a serious illness of their own. Suddenly, being a patient and just “doing what you’re told” didn’t look so easy…
I also heard fellow D-blogger and advocate Scott Johnson talk recently about a doctor who experienced patients connecting with one another for the first time — and how cathartic and life-changing it was for these people with a rare illness to…