World Diabetes Day: Gain and Loss
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View ArticleDiabetes Awareness Month 2017: I Just Wanted You To Know.
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. I haven’t posted about it yet because, ironically, diabetes has been kicking my ass for the past few weeks, so I’ve been all too aware of it. If you’re my friend,...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2017 Day 5: More than Diabetes
I am much more than diabetes.It’s fitting that this topic is the last of the week, because it basically bookends Monday’s topic, where I talked about all the different things I’m part of.I’m a...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2017 Day 4: What Brings Me Down
We’re going to go back to a past blog week topic from 2014. May is Mental Health Month so now seems like a great time to explore the emotional side of living with, or caring for someone with, diabetes....
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Diabetes Blog Week 2017 Day 3: The Blame Game
Prompt: The Blame Game - Wednesday 5/17Having diabetes often makes a visit to the doctor a dreaded experience, as there is invariably bad news of one kind or another. And sometimes the way the doctor...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2017 Day 2: The Cost of a Chronic Illness
Diabetes has an opportunity cost.When I picked up my US Social Security card in 2003, at the start of my undergrad, in the same government office with me was a man who was arguing with a woman behind...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2017 Day 1: Diabetes and the Unexpected
Welcome to Diabetes Blog Week! It's what got me into writing about diabetes (and, mostly, is the only reason I ever update this blog now, but I've met some great people because of it).Today's Prompt:...
View ArticleTwenty Years With Type 1: I'm Still Here
Twenty years ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Twenty. Years.Twenty years of this nonsense. Twenty years of my own body trying to kill me.But, here's the thing:I'M STILL HERE.I think it might...
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World Diabetes Day 2016
It's World Diabetes Day, and here's something everyone needs to know. In 1921, Banting, Best, and Collip, discoverers and purifiers of insulin, sold their discovery to the University of Toronto for $1...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2016 Day 5: Tips and Tricks
Click for the Tips and Tricks - Friday 5/20 Link List.Let's round out the week by sharing our best diabetes tips and diabetes tricks. From how you organize supplies to how you manage gear on the...
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Diabetes Blog Week Day 4: The Healthcare Experience
Click for the The Healthcare Experience - Thursday 5/19 Link List.Most people who live with a chronic illness end up with a lot of experience when it comes to dealing with healthcare. How would you...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2016 Day 3: Language and Diabetes
Click for the Language and Diabetes - Wednesday 5/18 Link List.There is an old saying that states “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. I'm willing to bet we've all...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2016 Day 2: The Other Half of Diabetes
Click for the The Other Half of Diabetes - Tuesday 5/17 Link List.We think a lot about the physical component of diabetes, but the mental component is just as significant. How does diabetes affect you...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2016 Day 1: Message Monday
Welcome to the 7th annual Diabetes Blog Week! I've been participating for a few years, and this week, where we all write according to a specific prompt, is really what eased me in to blogging about...
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Nineteen Years: The Girl Who Lived
As Kanye might say, “Nineteen years, nineteen years, busted your pancreas, got you for nineteen years.” Oh, diabetes, you golddigger, happy anniversary. I’ve had to deal with you for nineteen years as...
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Diabetes Blog Week Day Seven: Continuing Connections
The very first inspiration for Diabetes Blog Week was to help connect our blogging community, and that continues to be the most important reason it's held every year. So let's help foster and continue...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2015 Day Six: Favourites and Motivations
If you have been blogging for a while, what is your favorite sentence or blogpost that you have ever written? Is it diabetes related or just life related? If you are a new blogger and don't have a...
View ArticleDiabetes Blog Week 2105 Day 5: Foods on Friday
I have to admit that I almost used a wildcard for this one, because I worry about being judged based on my food intake. On other social media, people get excited when you post about the decadent food...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2015 Day Four: Changes (Where No D Has Gone Before)
Today's topic is Changes.Today let's talk about changes, in one of two ways. Either tell us what you'd most like to see change about diabetes, in any way. This can be management tools, devices,...
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Diabetes Blog Week 2015 Day Three: Clean It Out
Day Three of DBlogWeek (by the way, I haven't said thank you to the lovely Karen Graffeo for starting this wonderful tradition, so thank you! Also, read all of today's posts here!) begins with a...
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