April showers bring May flowers… and they also bring us some of our fave blog posts! Here’s our very own monthly diabetes “blog carnival”:
For WEGO Health’s April series of health prompts, Sue reflects on things you need to learn…
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Oh, Lourdes
Charlie wants to set out on a pilgrimage to the town of Lourdes in France. We recently watched a news show about Lourdes. Millions of people visit the small town each year to bathe in and drink the spring water that is said to be a miracle cure. Charlie’s eyes lit up. He dropped his iPod into his lap, inched closer to the television and turned his head to me. “Can we go???”
I’ll Huff and I’ll Puff
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As if just using our meters enough (or “the right way”) were the answer … NOT!
Big thanks to guest cartoonist, Mike Durbin, a type 2 PWD, who basks in #DOC camaraderie. Who else would even have…
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Happy Saturday! Welcome to another edition of our weekly advice column, Ask D’Mine, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois, where our goal is to always “tell it like it is” — no matter what! We’re…
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“Can’t you just take a pill?” is a question most of us have heard again and again whenever we take an injection or show off our insulin pump to family, friends, or strangers. Taking insulin orally has been a wish…
I started watching a new show on Fox called Touch. It stars Keifer Sutherland as the father of a child who is described as special needs. The kid doesn't talk, can't be touched and essentially doesn't communicate. Kiefer accidentally discovers that his son is "speaking" to him through numbers. These numbers are a road map for essentially helping people or bringing them together. It's almost as if the kid is clairvoyant.
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QUESTION: My mother is type 2 diabetic and is going to have thyroid surgery. Her doctor is worried about her blood sugar level during and after surgery.
Charlie sat sandwiched between two teammates on the dugout bench. To his left, an easygoing boy with dark shoulder-length hair who liked to engage Charlie in random conversations usually unrelated to baseball. He was undeterred by Charlie's shyness and spoke fluidly to him as if they'd been pals for years. He began every sentence with, "Hey, Charlie." To his right sat a serious boy with a persistent squint and short hair that sprouted out of his backwards baseball cap.
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According to the American Diabetes Association, seven million people have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, and a staggering 79 million more have pre-diabetes. Early detection of type 2 diabetes can save lives, which is what drives the ADA’s recent Diabetes Alert…
Right after the first of this year, Medtronic Diabetes announced FDA approval of mySentry, a remote monitoring and alarm system for their Revel CGM-enabled (continuous glucose monitoring) insulin pump. D’Mine Columnist and Correspondent Wil Dubois, also author of the award-winning…
In November, I became determined to lose the extra weight that I'd put on and to just get my overall health back in line. Since then, I've lost 10 pounds and brought my averages into a much lower range. I'm still determined to lose about five to ten more pounds and continue to get my blood sugars more stable.
My weight has plateaued after the 10 pounds and I can't seem to get anything else off. It seems to fall off in "chunks" and not gradually which I don't really understand. I've been counting calories and working out as much as possible with Jillian Michaels' DVDs.
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A special premiere today of some exclusive video clips!
Who remembers our introduction of filmmaker and D-Mom Jenny MacKenzie, who’s working on a very ambitious documentary about life with diabetes? Jenny’s the creator of the award-winning HBO documentary Kick Like…
Fighting misperceptions of diabetes in the mainstream media seems to be a losing battle sometimes. Case in point: this recent story in Women’s Health magazine about a “new wave” of fit and trim young American women developing type 2 diabetes…
Awkward moments with diabetes? But of course!!
Thanks again to T1 blogger and talented illustrator Kim Vlasnik, who’s always got her finger on the pulse of life with type 1.
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Welcome to another edition of our weekly Ask D’Mine column! But before we get started, we want to wish Amy a very Happy Birthday today!
We hope Amy has a fabulous and relaxing day with her family and friends. She…
QUESTION: For the last two months, I am taking Lantus 24 hours Autopen at night (9:00 p.m) and I am taking medicines in the morning before breakfast Galvus