President Trump’s budget director, Mick Mulvaney, specifically called out people with diabetes as a group of Americans who do not deserve health…
When my now adult daughter turned six: BAM. There it was, type 1 diabetes, something that would demand a lifetime of constant medical intervention,…
My older daughter – the one without diabetes – is expecting her first child, a girl, due this summer. My granddaughter will be adored and nurtured…
I opened my daughter Lauren’s diabetes log book (this was, obviously, long ago). I’d just returned from my first business trip since her diagnosis,…
Of all the photos taken over 20 years of my daughter Lauren’s diabetes life, the one that haunts me is the one in which she – and we – had no idea Type 1…
Is it odd that I sometimes yearn for the simple days when we had no social media (to scare us even as it supports us), no Dexcom Share (to unnerve us even…
Mary Tyler Moore, who lived with Type 1 diabetes, died today at the age of 80. She was a much loved actress, best known for her television roles in…
This headline turned heads across the diabetes landscape:
“CITY OF HOPE SETS NEW GOAL FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES CURE
More than $50 million in private funding…
Working toward a better life – and a cure – for any disease is a practice in patience. We all start out hoping for some “Lorenzo’s Oil” type of situation:…
Our first holiday season with diabetes in the family was 20 Christmases ago, but I can remember it like it was an hour ago. It was all centered on sugar…