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…
Category: Parenting (Children)
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?…
It was August of 2010 and I was days away from dropping my daughter with diabetes off at a college 500 miles away. I was putting up a good front but, truth…
It was a video taken in the middle of the night: a child with diabetes half asleep in bed, fighting off the straw to a juice box her mom was force-feeding…
I grew up around needles, meters, insulin, test strips and blood. I grew up to know the moodiness, the fatigue, the weight loss and weight gain, the…
A 12-year old South Carolina girl with Type 1 diabetes and what her parents describe as an intense allergy to insulin therapy is set to undergo a rarely…
When superstar Usher explained to the world why he had to miss the Manchester Benefit Concert this week, the average parent scratched their head.…
I’m not a huge fan of Mother’s Day. Mind you: my kids are wonderful about it, and so is my husband. I just kind of want to live a life in which we all almost…
My older daughter – the one without diabetes – is expecting her first child, a girl, due this summer. My granddaughter will be adored and nurtured…
I opened my daughter Lauren’s diabetes log book (this was, obviously, long ago). I’d just returned from my first business trip since her diagnosis,…