Sunday Funnies: Our Constant Companion
Even when traveling, guess who’s along for the ride?
Thanks to our cartoonist Mike Durbin, who blogs at My Diabetic Heart and knows a thing or two about traveling with diabetes.
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Our Many Types of Diabetes Baggage (with Book Giveaway!)
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…
The Diabetes-Friendly Skies – Pending TSA’s Approval
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…
“The Most Awesome Thing I’ve Done Despite Diabetes”
Thanks to Cherise Shockley and the team at the DSMA (Diabetes Social Media Advocacy – #dsma) website, there is a new Blog Carnival making the rounds in the DOC (Diabetes Online Community). How’s that for a mouthful of acronyms? In case you’re not familiar with any of this, a Blog Carnival is a monthly feature in which bloggers respond to a prompt on their respective sites, and the following month all the responses are collected…
Read more »The ADA Gets to TSA on Insulin Pumps
I’ll be flying myself soon for the first time since TSA introduced its new, more invasive screening procedures. And frankly, I’m really getting a bit nervous now — especially in light of the disastrously insensitive approach some TSA agents seem to take to administering pat-downs to people wearing medical devices. (Who read about the bladder cancer survivor whose urostomy bag they broke?!)
This seemed like a good moment to check in with the American Diabetes…