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Young Adults with Diabtes Home for the Summer

Young Adults with Diabetes Home for the Summer

Stepping back into those old parenting habits when your child already lives on their own and does just fine can ruin a perfectly wonderful visit or summer stay. So, what’s a parent to do? I am hoping by thinking it out ahead of time and making myself aware, I’ll avoid the pratfalls many of us face when our young adults come home.

Don’t Judge People with Type 2 Diabetes

People with type 2 diabetes continue to be seen as culprits who brought diabetes onto themselves instead as of people struggling with a difficult illness. Type 2 diabetes shaming has become part of our culture. I used to be part of that.

Report from ADA: How Far Diabetes Care Has Come, And How Far We Still Have to Go

Both type 1 and type 2 are on the rise: since 1985 the number of people with diabetes worldwide has increased ten-fold, from 35 million to 371 million; and it’s projected to double again over the next two decades.

Why a Teen with Type 1 Diabetes Lied to her Parents

High blood sugar completely wiped away my ability to focus in class, and by the time I was home and had to study and do homework, I was so tired that I would fall asleep long before my homework was done.

Short and Sweet: An Interview with Broadcaster Stacey Simms

Stacey Simms is an award-winning broadcaster and speaker. She is the host of the new podcast, Diabetes Connections, and has blogged since 2007 about her family’s experience with type 1 diabetes.

Type 1 Diabetes Unites Classmates

My son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes almost three years ago, when he was four. He started kindergarten as the only diabetic in a relatively small class of kids in a very small public school in a rural part of New York. And then, just as the school year ended, one of his classmates was diagnosed with type 1.

In Case You Missed It: Diabetes Blog Week 2015

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.

Asante Ceases Operations, Asks Animas To Transition Customers

Asante Solutions announced that it is ceasing all business operations and will no longer sell or support the Asante Snap Insulin Pump. This means all current Asante Snap Insulin Pump users will soon need to transition to a new insulin pump.

It’s Hard to Break the Ties that Bind: Marlin Barton’s Pasture Art

Sentimentality is missing in Marlin Barton’s Pasture Art (Hub City Press, 2015), a collection of eight stories set in the Alabama Black Belt, yet pathos is in great supply. Barton assembles unlikely characters who play out the hidden logic in their connections: why an old man protects the young girl who is stealing from him, or why an itinerant photographer apprentices a deaf woman to guide him around the town he is documenting.

Unsolicited Diabetes Advice: Think Before You Share

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.