So it’s been an entire decade since type 1 diabetes turned my life on its ear, or something along those lines…
Many of you know my story: How I had a new baby who had just turned 5 months old, along with a 5-year-old and 3-year-old to care for when the symptoms hit… How I thought I was just exhausted because my baby had been suffering with a nasty flu that kept the two of…
It’s taken me a little longer than expected to get around to posting this review of Erin Spineto’s new book “Islands and Insulin“ — but hey, good things take time, right? It’s a different kind of diabetes book from any I’ve encountered so far; it’s a narrative of a huge sailing adventure + the college-age experiences that shaped Erin’s life, with a generous helping of diabetes on the side — rather than the other way…
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Motherhood is fraught with challenges, but adding diabetes to the mix brings it to a whole new level of “OMG what am I doing?!” So it went for San Francisco D-mom Brooke Gibson, who knew that nothing replaces face-to-face interaction and dialogue between people who really get it. And so Brooke decided to launch Sugar Mommas, a special group for PWD moms and moms-to-be.
As a wannabe-mom myself (nothing in cards right now, folks!), who’s spent a…
On our final day of Diabetes Blog Week 2012 (boo, so sad!), we are ending the week on a high note by blogging about our “Diabetes Hero.” As Karen suggests: “It can be anyone you’d like to recognize or admire, someone you know personally or not, someone with diabetes or maybe a Type 3. It might be a fabulous endo or CDE. It could be a D-celebrity or role model. It could be another DOC…
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We’re always hearing the scary warnings that the rate of diabetes is increasing dramatically. Here’s another scary statistic: 1 in 88 children is diagnosed with autism each year. April is National Autism Awareness Month, so we wanted to take some time to highlight not just autism, but the relationship between autism and diabetes… if there is one.
If you’re not familiar with autism (or “Autism Spectrum Disorder” known as ASD), it’s actually a wide-spectrum disorder,…