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…
Almost 44 million Americans are traveling this Thanksgiving week, and without a doubt there are going to be hassles. But people with diabetes (PWDs) have to worry about a bit more than whether you can carry on a snow globe or your favorite brand of cranberry sauce.
(Both snow globes and cranberry sauce packs are OK, says the TSA.)
Let’s be honest. Many of us have walked through the regular metal detectors (or sent D-children…
Welcome to the first Friday of November! To kick off the month, we have another “life with diabetes” video short straight from Sugar Babies film creator Jenny MacKenzie.
The video this week is another look at “coming out” with your diabetes — a Brooklyn teenager’s challenges in telling others about his diabetes, navigating school life, and his mom’s worries about his future.
Episode 5: Before and After the School Bell Rings
How do…
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.…
TGIF, right? And welcome to the second in our new series of “life with diabetes” videos created for us here at the ‘Mine and for our sister community DiabeticConnect by filmmaker and D-mom Jenny MacKenzie.
This week’s episode is about a family learning to navigate life with type 2 diabetes — where eating isn’t as much fun as it used to be, for one thing.
Episode 2: Kids with Type 2 Diabetes
Have a child…