Labor, labor, labor. That pretty much sums up life with diabetes, does it not?
On this Labor Day 2012, we’re thinking of all the folks who work so hard every day to improve our lives with diabetes: you know, the device-makers and HC providers and all of those who toil daily to help us PWDs better manage our daily D-Lives.
And so, today we offer an Ode to All Diabetes Workers:
To those who make…
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If you read our recent stuff about diabetes coaches, you’ll know this isn’t exactly what we had in mind…
Thanks to 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!
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We are winding down the summer months and making way for Fall. There’ve been so many great posts this past month… here’s our monthly snapshot of some we found particularly noteworthy (in no particular order):
We got a kick out of this post by Alexis Pollak over at I Run on Insulin, who tried to do a little advocacy when checking out at the local pharmacy! Totally laugh and sigh-worthy!
Meanwhile, D-Mom Hallie Addington…
We were over the moon when we heard that D-blogger Gina Capone, founder of Diabetes Talkfest and The Diabetes Resource, was expecting a little one. We knew that Gina’s road to parenthood was not an easy one. Before conception, pregnancy and childbirth, many women with diabetes struggle to prepare for conception by achieving ultra-tight glucose control. Gina, now in her mid-30s, discusses what it took for her and her husband to have a baby, and…
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Even though Ed Damiano isn’t living with diabetes, he occasionally wears a continuous glucose monitor and two Tandem t:slim pumps, and he constantly has his eye on all the newest D-devices.
Sometimes his pumps are filled with saline and sometimes colored water, with blue liquid representing insulin and red standing in for fast-acting glucagon. The Boston researcher is wearing the devices in the name of his 13-year old son, David, diagnosed with type 1 more…