My older daughter – the one without diabetes – is expecting her first child, a girl, due this summer. My granddaughter will be adored and nurtured…
Category: Living
Diabetes affects every facet of daily life—diet, sleep, and exercise, to name a few. It can even affect clothing choices. Whether your pump is a…
Back in early January, I sent an email out to some of my friends asking them if they might be interested in getting away for a ladies’ snowboarding…
A non-profit organization called the Critical Path Institute is spearheading a new initiative called the Type 1 Diabetes Consortium (T1D Consortium)…
I have been living with type 1 diabetes for 25 years now. The relentlessness of type 1, and the fact that I will probably live with this non-preventable…
This week, Novo Nordisk and CVS Health announced a new program that will offer discounts on insulin, a life-sustaining drug for people with diabetes.…
Andrew Mika gazes down to examine his tailored white dress shirt. “See look at that—there’s a blood stain!”
These words, unexpected in the upscale…
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,…
Let’s start positive: Here are the best things about the new health-insurance plan rolled out by Republicans in the House of Representatives.…
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…