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The Essential Diabetes Auntie

There’s another kind of auntie our world needs: this one’s bond with the person comes not from blood, but from blood sugar. This auntie’s advice, compassion, and care comes not from knowing what it means to live with diabetes or care for someone with diabetes.

A Field Guide to People With Diabetes: 7 Things to Look For

When you live with diabetes for a given amount of time, your mind is always on the lookout for those secret clues – the signals from other people that remind you you’re not alone in the world. Even when you don’t realize it.

Pricing Drugs by Their ‘Value’ to Sick People

When Bresch talked about drug prices and access existing “in a balance,” she was referring to what the pharmaceutical industry calls value-based pricing.

Let Your Child With Diabetes be Sad

Michelle Sorensen, M.ED, Clinical Psychologist is passionate about increasing the counseling capacity of healthcare professionals who support people loving with type 1 diabetes. The majority of healthcare professionals have been trained in directing and educating clients but Sorensen sees that people living with type 1 diabetes respond better to a counseling approach. “It’s about understanding how you help the patient tap into their own resources,” says Sorensen.

Now My Husband And I Both Have Diabetes

I can deal with my own diabetes. This is my life. But my husband? He is the strong one, the one with no health issues who is tough and barely ever gets a cold.

College Diabetes Networks Creates New Booklets for Students and Parents

If you’re familiar with me or my blog, then you probably know about my history with the the non-profit organization College Diabetes Network (CDN). I went from attending meetings as a member, to leading them as chapter president, and now I participate as much as possible as an alum.

IDF Launches Life for a Child (USA) Inc.

The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Life for a Child Program has expanded into the U.S. to launch IDF Life for a Child (USA) Inc. (LFAC),…

When A Sibling Pretends to Have Type 1 Diabetes

The past two weeks my six-year-old daughter, who does not have type 1 diabetes, has been wearing an old, worn insulin pump pouch that belongs to her eight-year-old brother, who does have type 1 diabetes.

Sharing the Responsibility of a Kid with Type 1 Diabetes

Andrew and I have since separated. Type 1 diabetes was not the cause of this decision, but more the last in a series of hurdles our marriage just couldn’t overcome. But while nothing about divorce is easy, the simple acknowledgment that we weren’t working well together anymore has actually strengthened our ability to tackle diabetes, and parenting in general, as a team.

15 Things I Didn’t Know Before I was a D-Parent

There were not only many things I didn't know before diabetes was part of my life, there were things I never imagined I'd know. And chances are that you, D-Parents out there, have plenty to add.