Last summer, when I picked my nine year old son up from diabetes camp, his eyes, like those of the counselors and other campers, were bloodshot…
Category: Living
There are many books on diabetes topics, like getting diabetes, controlling diabetes, living with diabetes, and even quite a few on how to reverse…
Versatile and fun bags to carry all your diabetes stuff around in are all the rage, and thankfully, because the options were pretty crummy for a long…
When ASweetLife suggested I create a diabetes-related art piece for Arbor Day, I thought, Diabetes and Arbor Day? Hmm…
I started researching trees.…
After three decades with type 1 diabetes, with fifteen years of pumping tens of thousands of blood sugar checks, I’ve certainly generated my share…
Scene: A woman opens her eyes slowly, nudged from sleep by the sound of something screaming in the night. “What’s that noise?” she says, peering…
Making life better for people with diabetes may just be for the birds. Bear with us here: A Wisconsin family with a history of raising prize turkeys…
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…
Do you remember the date you were diagnosed with diabetes? Is there a pancreas-shaped mylar balloon that we can blow up and tie to our breakfast…
It was the summer of 2010, and I was working through that terrifying time in the life of a diabetes parent: figuring out the whole “sending your kid…