Category: Living

Alexis

How The Diabetes Online Community Saved Me

I was able to start asking questions, learn about post-prandial spikes, insulin pumps, CGMs, ketones, and so much more. After almost two years of my child living with Type 1 diabetes, I felt like I was being educated for the first time. I am thankful everyday for that first retweet I got, which led me to find my second family and my place in the amazing DOC.
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Halloween Tips From Parents of Children With Diabetes

Most kids love Halloween. Can you blame them? It's a holiday loaded with creepy crawly things, costumes, parties, and of course, candy. I recall the trick-or-treating loot my brother and I brought home in our childhood. We always had enough candy to last for months. We didn't usually keep all of the candy, but one year my brother outsmarted everyone and hid some in his desk drawer.
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5 Books People With Diabetes Should Read

5 Books People With Diabetes Should Read

I’m sharing five books that changed me for the better, and helped me see things I’d never considered before. Here is my list of five nonfiction books that have absolutely nothing to do with diabetes, but that everyone with diabetes in their lives in some way absolutely needs to read.
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Smash Diabetes with Glu and T1DExchange

Halloween is just around the corner, so get ready to grab a pumpkin and Smash Diabetes to kick off Diabetes Awareness Month in November. The idea behind Smash Diabetes is to visually show the world how frustrated we are about the never-ending grind we often face in silence.
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5 Ways to Help Your Teen with Diabetes Succeed

5 Ways to Help Your Teen with Diabetes Succeed

Treating diabetes well demands a long term vision. You tolerate a lot of inconvenience today in order to avoid future damage. But, have you tried lately talking to any teenager about the future consequences of anything? Be it school, friends, lifestyle choices– teenage thinking is not designed to consider long term consequences.
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How I Sailed to New Zealand with Type 1 Diabetes

Two years ago, on St. Patrick’s Day (for good luck, of course), I shoved off the North American continent with my family aboard a 38-foot sailboat. Our bow pointed towards South Pacific paradise. It would take us nearly a month to sail there, through calms and squalls and day after day of perfect tradewind sailing. We didn’t see land nor ship for 26 days, until the magical, lush and green island of Hiva Oa came into view at dawn one morning.
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Diabetes at Work

7 Tips to Prevent Diabetes From Interfering at the Workplace

It can be really annoying to have to use vacation time for endo appointments. But if you plan ahead, you can often work with your office or boss to use as little time as possible for this. For instance, I know the day before Thanksgiving is a slow work day, so I grabbed a time slot with my endo way ahead of time to avoid missing a crucial work day.
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DiabetesSisters To Host LA Conference

On October 24-25th, 2014, hundreds of women with diabetes and their loved ones will descend upon the Embassy Suites LAX North for DiabetesSisters’ power-packed weekend conference. This will be the eighth Conference hosted by DiabetesSisters and the first time it will convene in the Los Angeles, CA area.
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