By
AmyT on
April 30, 2012
April showers bring May flowers… and they also bring us some of our fave blog posts! Here’s our very own monthly diabetes “blog carnival”:
For WEGO Health’s April series of health prompts, Sue reflects on things you need to learn the hard way, like… diabetes sucks?
Stacey Divone takes the new Accu-Chek Fastclix lancing device for a test drive.
Legendary type 2 blogger David Mendosa muses on the “wonderdrug” metformin: is this something we all…
Read more »
By
WilD on
February 11, 2012
Diabetes isn’t very loving, but here at the ‘Mine, we’re here to support you! Welcome to another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois.
Mysteries are all around us in the world of diabetes, and today Wil tackles a couple involving Lantus.
{Need help navigating life with diabetes? Email us at AskDMine@diabetesmine.com}
Francisco from New Jersey, type 2, writes: I took…
Read more »
Last Spring, the DOC was abuzz when a casting call went out for MTV’s reality series “True Life.” The producers were planning to make a one-hour documentary on diabetes, and they were looking for folks to submit their stories. Understandably, many people were wary of what kind of “reality” MTV would create with this show. What kind of people would they choose to represent PWDs? Would they overhype or downplay different parts of life with…
Read more »
Today is my 18th diaversary. That’s DOC slang for the anniversary of my diagnosis. I used to think 18 years with diabetes sounded like a looooong time. Growing up, most of the people I knew had diabetes for about as long as me, because most of my D-friends were the same age as me and were diagnosed around the same time as I was (at age 8). Now that I’m older and have had the…
Read more »
