This coming weekend is Mother’s Day, of course, so we’ve got mothers on the mind. Personally, I’ll be celebrating the Bat Mitzvah of my second daughter — one of a Jewish mother’s proudest moments
Meanwhile, we wanted a peek into the real lives of mothers caring for kids with diabetes —the hardest, hardest job, and one that certainly requires a sense of humor aside from a boatload of strength and resilience.
Since no one on…
We thank you for your many queries related to life with diabetes! And many thanks to our host Wil Dubois — diabetes author, community educator and veteran type 1 himself — for diving deep into such a variety of D-related topics.
This week at Ask D’Mine he’s taking on some fundamentals: dealing with mega-unhelpful family members and mega-challenging workplace issues.
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Renee from New…
In honor of National Diabetes Awareness Month, I’m trying to re-examine perspectives on this illness from all different angles. I ran this across this post at the Mayo Clinic blog reminding me of how difficult a new diagnosis can be on family members. And yet, for adults newly diagnosed with diabetes, so many family members are NOT particularly helpful.
It seemed a great time to revisit the following guest post from 2006, which illustrates family…