For many parents and kids with diabetes, diabetes camp is a saving grace. When everyday life can leave you feeling isolated, diabetes camp provides a comradery and a normalcy to life with diabetes, along with your typical camp experience including arts and crafts, bonfires, late night bunk gossip, and lots of singing!
We bring this up now because it’s that time of year again when parents need to start thinking about signing kids up for…
Last month, we launched a new series on diabetes complications. The idea is definitely not to use scare tactics to convince you to take better care of yourself, but rather to embrace the notion that “knowledge is power” and that if you are diagnosed with a complication, life goes on…
(Hey, we’re facing our own worst fears here, too)
It just so happens that February is National Heart Month (go figure), so this month we’re…
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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…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air, Folks. Red roses, boxes of chocolate, and… glucose meters? For PWDs, there is no escape from the challenges of diabetes, but some of us are lucky enough to find someone to face the trials and tribulations by our side. Others may still be searching, or just starting out in a new relationship…
Inevitably the question comes up of how “involved” a partner should be in a…
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’re getting in the mood for love. According to Riva Greenberg, a fellow diabetes writer and advocate, the journey to finding love begins with loving yourself, which isn’t always easy with diabetes.
Riva is a frequent motivational speaker at some of the top diabetes conferences in the country (ADA, AADE, TCOYD), and she’ll also be a keynote speaker at this spring’s Weekend for Women event in North Carolina. …
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