Although I don’t feel #blessed to have diabetes and celiac disease in my home, there certainly hasn’t been a better time for it. This moment, right…
Collard wraps are beautiful, versatile, and convenient—something I’d be pissed off to have to give up for some inane medical reason. Since collard…
Facebook’s On This Day feature certainly knows how to yank my chain. Up it pops to say, On this day nine years ago…and presents a child with impossibly…
We recently got a letter from our insurance company. It was addressed to my younger son. He is fourteen.
“Dear BRIGGS, We want to keep you informed…
Reader, I am so tired of diabetes. I’ve been desperately needing to shake up my game. That’s why today is a glorious day: Carolyn Ketchum’s cookbook…
Although I was diagnosed three years ago, and Jack three months ago, neither of us has taken a speck of insulin. Having Type 1 diabetes but not needing to take insulin is weird. It is nothing to complain about, but it doesn’t make sense in most doctors’ offices, or spark joy among other people with diabetes.
Kids need parental guidance. Children with diabetes are no exception. After four years as the parent of a child with type 1 diabetes, I’ve learned that even (or especially) while experiencing hypoglycemia my son needs guidance, although perhaps not as much as he needs juice.
The sixth annual Diabetes Blog Week ended on Sunday, with enough startling, illuminating, and hilarious posts to flip your diabetic brains inside out.
Diabetes Blog Week, brainchild of diabetes advocate and Bittersweet Diabetes blogger Karen Graffeo, happens annually in May. Each year, seven themes (one for each day of the week, natch) are chosen by Karen to inspire, unite, and criss-cross the paths of disparate D-bloggers across the globe.
If you are a friend or family member who provides TLC in the form of spontaneously delivered diabetes advice, thank you! That is so nice! Unfortunately, not all of it arrives in the loving, friendly form you intended.