By
AmyT on
February 7, 2012
Sophie Lee has an obsession with toilets – not because it’s some kind of fetish, but because all of her adult life, she’s never known when she’s going to urgently need one nearby, or suffer the consequences. It’s a pretty icky topic, I know, but Sophie’s new narrative describing her 20-year struggle with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the best-written “empowered patient” testimonials I’ve read.
Sophie grew up in the UK and went…
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It’s D-Blog Week this week, an online “rally” of sorts in which D-bloggers near and far write their personal responses to prompts created by the unflappable Karen from Bittersweet Diabetic. Today is Letter Writing Day:
“In February the Wego Blog Carnival asked participants to write letters to their condition. You can write a letter to diabetes if you’d like, but we can also take it one step further. How about writing a letter…
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By
AmyT on
March 25, 2011
Today, we hope to continue motivating y’all to get involved in the 2011 DiabetesMine Design Challenge!
One of the new faces on our Judging Panel this year comes from our sponsor, the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF). Dr. Sophia Chang is Director of CHCF’s Better Chronic Disease Care program. She’s an internist who’s done a lot of work with AIDS patients and also medical research examining health disparities in breast cancer care.
Sophia’s also a really…
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Something else that struck me from my recent interview with D-psychologist Jessica Bernstein was her observation that “we diabetics tend to not see ourselves as part of the larger chronic illness community — which is unfortunate because we miss out on a lot.” I am sure she is quite right. And yet…
It’s simply human nature to listen to that nagging little voice that says: “Unless somebody is living with MY disease, they can’t possibly…
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