Diabetes Blog Week: Day One

I’m participating in this year’s Diabetes Blog Week. Thanks to Karen Graffeo of Bittersweet Diabetes for organizing this event.

Today’s topic is “find a friend” and asks us to introduce a blogger others may not know.

Many of you have probably come across Laura Houston’s blog, Houston We Have a Problem. If you haven’t, now is your chance. It’s very worth your while. Laura’s son Nate, now three, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 14-months-old. Shortly thereafter one of Laura’s daughters became ill with what was recently diagnosed as Crohn’s disease.

I love Laura’s blog because it’s totally straightforward. She doesn’t waste words. It’s a completely honest account of her life as the mother of a small child with type 1 diabetes (and all the other crap she deals with).

To manage what Laura manages you’ve got to be extraordinary. And she is. Read her post Insulin Overload and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

Jessica Apple

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Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)