Every so often, we get questions here at our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine!, that flat out break our hearts. Today, your host Wil Dubois, a veteran type 1 and diabetes educator & author, is responding to a teenage girl facing some pretty cruel treatment at her school relating to diabetes. Ouch…
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Taylor, type 1 from Oregon, writes: Hi, I’m 13 and got diagnosed with type 1…
Did you know the DiabetesMine team were secret artists, painting masterpieces with our lancets in our garage studios by night?
Yeah… April Fool’s! Actually we’ve got, well… close to zilch artistic ability.
But our new friend Cathy Leamy in the Boston area is one of those people who REALLY has talent, and is using her comic-creating capabilities to raise awareness on important healthcare topics.
Cathy tells us she’s been doing comics and cartoons for most…
Hello again, Diabetes Alert Day.
Like clockwork every year, the American Diabetes Association marks its annual D-Alert Day on the fourth Tuesday of March. This is a one-day “wake-up call” designed to make people more aware of type 2 diabetes and offer them ways to assess their own potential to develop this condition. In other words, “Hey, you don’t want diabetes so do something about it now while you can!”
Twenty-thirteen marks the 25th year…
This February marks the 37th year of African American History Month (formerly Black History Month), and we’re pleased to mark the occasion by welcoming Chrystal Leary, a fellow D-advocate who’s become extremely active online spreading education and awareness among the African American population.
Chrystal lives in the Los Angeles, CA, area and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just over five years ago. Since then, she’s quickly stepped up to her new role as an advocate, busting myths, countering stereotypes and working…
We always love to discover people in the diabetes community who are doing (unusually) great things.
That’s why it was so exciting to learn about the work of fellow online D-Advocate Marie Smith, who blogs over at Joy Benchmarks. She was diagnosed with type 1 as an adult in July 2011, and just celebrated her first diaversary last summer!
Just about that time, Marie traveled to Indianapolis for a D-Meetup and I had the pleasure…