By
MikeH on
September 28, 2012
Another month has come and gone, and with that we are changing seasons. This final month of summer-turned-autumn was a busy one for our Diabetes Online Community, and it brought out some truly amazing — and also heartbreaking — posts. Below, in no particular order, is our initial “Fall Collection”:
D-Alert Dogs are fascinating, and the stories of those fellow PWDs who have them are always interesting to read. We’ve been following Tarra, whose blog, My Crazy …
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By
AmyT on
August 7, 2012
Diabetes educators who do less talking, and more listening to the real-world concerns of patients? That’s something I think we can all rally around! So we’re pleased to report that this was a running theme in all the sessions our team attended at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), which just wrapped up this weekend in Indianapolis.
Team members Allison Blass and Mike Hoskins report that at this giant…
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I’ve often read about doctors whose perspective changed drastically once they were diagnosed with a serious illness of their own. Suddenly, being a patient and just “doing what you’re told” didn’t look so easy…
I also heard fellow D-blogger and advocate Scott Johnson talk recently about a doctor who experienced patients connecting with one another for the first time — and how cathartic and life-changing it was for these people with a rare illness to…
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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the first-of-its kind e-Patient Bootcamp program held at the offices of Edelman PR in New York City. The event was hosted by the venerable leader of the e-Patient movement, Dave deBronkart. e-Patient Dave, as he’s more commonly known, has an incredibly moving story: after being diagnosed with “terminal” metastasized kidney cancer, he managed to beat the odds by using the internet and his own stubborn persistence to…
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This year is the Seventh Annual D-Blog Day, started by the wonderful Gina Capone, founder of Diabetes Talkfest and moderator on JDRF’s Juvenation community site. D-Blog Day is essentially one day a year in which everyone in the DOC is encouraged to write about their experiences blogging about diabetes — as a way to increase the chatter even more, and also to include bloggers who may not necessarily identify themselves as D-bloggers but who are affected…
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