When it comes to diabetes, no place is safe. We have featured folks with diabetes from Spain to Germany to Canada and now we’re traveling across the globe to Australia to hear from Simon, a 35-year-old with LADA.
Simon lives in South Australia where he works in antiques, and despite living in the sixth largest country in the world (and an entire continent!), he’s found that the Australian Diabetes Online Community is pretty small compared…
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending a really special type of diabetes event, just for the gals! The DiabetesSisters Weekend for Women conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, hosted almost 100 women from 20 states, who convened for two intense days of learning, bonding, and lots of fun. I had never been to a women-only conference before, so it was something new from many angles: a unique opportunity to spend time discussing the…
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Most of the time when a new book from an endocrinologist is published, it’s in a very prescriptive tone, as in “This is what you should do to achieve optimal disease management.” Very rarely are they written with the intention of showing the emotional challenges of life with diabetes from the patient’s perspective. That’s why the premise of the book, A Life of Control, was so interesting. Released last fall, the book is edited by…
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We continue with our new series on life around the globe with diabetes! Our first feature was an English PWD living in Spain. Today, we introduce you to Anke, a kindred spirit from Germany who has some pretty unexpected revelations about diabetes in her country.
A Guest Post by Anke Troeder
I’m a college lecturer for public speaking and presentation skills at a small college in northern Germany. I was diagnosed in 2005 at the…
Another “myth-busters” post:
There are a lot of things about diabetes that are taken as “gospel,” both by doctors and patients. But at the JDRF Capitol Research Summit last month, I learned that many commonly accepted beliefs about diabetes haven’t actually been proven by medical science with convincing evidence (far beyond ‘you got it because you ate too much candy.’) Eminent scholar Dr. Mark Atkinson was pretty adamant that “these ideas need to be put…