Since September of 1986, when I was seven, I have been living with type 1 diabetes. Day one of diabetes is mostly a blur for me, but I remember that…
Category: Living
Life – particularly with diabetes on board – is a series of choices. Looking back on the 20 years of my daughter Lauren’s diabetes, I can see that how…
For Renata Souza Luque designing an award-winning method for children with diabetes to not only administer their insulin more easily, but in a…
Are people aware of the very moment they change your mindset forever? The moment that they confirm you aren’t alone with diabetes?
Dressing up for…
I’m fairly sure most of you reading this right now have already heard about the Jimmy Kimmel drama (over nothing). Quite frankly, his diabetes joke…
Have you ever dressed up in a diabetes-themed Halloween costume? Dug through the trash to find a discarded candy wrapper, hunting for the carb count?…
A few days ago, a viral Instagram post began appearing all over my social media threads. It was the same post everywhere, showcasing a recent photo…
To: President Donald Trump
From: “D-Mom” Moira, on behalf of all who live with diabetes
Re: “Her health. No good. Diabetes.”
According to…
Stigma is a strange and unspoken side effect of living with diabetes. People make generalizations about people with diabetes (PWD) and their…
Christel Marchand Aprigliano is not the kind of diabetes advocate who waits for instructions. When she saw the need for a cohesive advocacy program…