In West Virginia, a 16-year-old with type 1 recruited hundreds of walkers and raised a record amount of money for his local JDRF chapter because he wanted to give back to a worthy cause.
In New York, another teenager helped raise a record amount of money for his local JDRF walk.
We tend to think of teens as “hanging out” and wasting a lot of time, but these two kids exemplify how younger generations of…
Welcome back! It’s Saturday again, so time to curl up with a cup of tea/coffee and our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! This week, veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois tackles a question we’ve never heard before about the probability that continuous glucose monitor (CGM) use might lead to cancer (?). He also has some thoughts about how to manage non-diabetes medical professionals when you’re in the hospital… should an emergency situations…
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Teens and young adults with type 1 diabetes age 16 and older are finally getting some long-overdue recognition and resources from the JDRF – hooray! The organization this week announced a new “toolkit” aimed at supporting young adults newly diagnosed with type 1.
They’ve already got a “Bag of Hope” for new families of kids with diabetes — something created in the 1990s and complete with all the newbie info one might expect, along with the…
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…
April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and what better time to bring you a new resource directly from the Diabetes Online Community aimed at raising awareness about diabetes and drinking?
Appropriately, it’s named Drinking with Diabetes.
You may remember it as one of the concepts that won backing from the Diabetes Hands Foundation Seeds Grant Program last summer. Created by fellow D-Advocate Bennet Dunlap, who’s dad to four great kids (the youngest two, Connor and Delaney,…