Happy Friday! Once again, it’s time for a “life with diabetes” video short from filmmaker Jenny MacKenzie, who created the documentary film Sugar Babies. In this week’s clip, we get a peek inside a family’s experience of taking their adorable little girl with type 1 to preschool for the first time!
But this mom and dad face having to give up the constant supervision of her diabetes, and help the new teacher learn how to…
As we come to the end of Diabetes Awareness Month and the year, it’s always a good chance to reflect a little on what we do.
Turns out, this month’s DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy) Blog Carnival prompt encourages all of us active in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) to look back on how we’ve advocated this year and what we can do differently in 2013. We all worked hard this month (and every day of…
Yes, any kid diagnosed with diabetes might be a bit trepidacious about Halloween as it approaches…
But we have ways of dealing with that…
Thanks for the ever-loving snark of our regular contributor Jerry King, an accomplished cartoonist in America who creates more than 200 cartoons each month for websites, magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, etc., worldwide.…
While we’re on the subject of diabetes and art this week, we want to introduce a couple of whizbang! projects that are taking the notion of diabetes education via artwork to a whole new level: in comic book form…
Learning About Diabetes, Inc.
The folks at the Arizona-based Learning About Diabetes, Inc., a non-profit charity focused on creating diabetes education materials, approached us during AADE to tell us about a new kind of interactive comic…
Ever wish there was someone to ask all those pressing, confounding, and disconcerting questions about life with diabetes? Someone who really “gets it”? Well, now there is!
If you haven’t discovered our diabetes advice column Ask D’Mine yet, now is your chance to jump in! This Saturday series is hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Laura from Arizona, type…
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