Sunday Funnies: Awkward Moments
Awkward moments with diabetes? But of course!!
Thanks again to T1 blogger and talented illustrator Kim Vlasnik, who’s always got her finger on the pulse of life with type 1.
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Your A1c: To Share or Not To Share…
A few weeks ago, I was reading around on one of the many diabetes message boards of which I’m a member. I spotted a thread that included a note from a woman who wrote that her A1c has never been above 7% in 40 years of living with type 1 diabetes. Rather than responding directly, I tweeted, “I want to die a little.”
Why the strong reaction? Because in the 18 years I’ve had type…
“D-Friendly” Cooking by Paula Deen’s Son is Better than Cardboard
After the whole Paula Deen controversy earlier this year, we were interested in seeing what her “Diabetes In a New Light” cooking campaign was going to be all about. That chance arose recently when Indiana-based fellow D-blogger and journalist Mike Hoskins took a bus ride to Chicago, where one of Paula’s sons was doing a cooking demonstration showing their new “diabetes friendly” Southern recipes. Mike had the chance to not only watch the demo and…
Read more »Sunday Funnies: Unusual Suspects
Sometimes you just have to wonder how they got there…
This week’s cartoon is courtesy of guest cartoonist Meredith Gruebbel, a type 1 PWD, who works in Louisville, KY, as graphic designer and regularly blogs about her life with diabetes at With a Side of Insulin.…
Read more »Hosting the Diabetes Advocates: Well-Played, Medtronic
As many of you may know, my husband/consulting partner and I were approached by Roche Diabetes’ Accu-Chek team a few years back with a challenging project request: how could we help them best “embrace” the burgeoning online diabetes patient community (what is now known lovingly as the DOC)? Our suggestion was hosting an in-person summit, to offer us cyber-advocates a rare chance to meet each other, as well as an unprecedented “peek behind the curtain”…
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