How would you go about proving that anything is possible with Type 1 diabetes? Outdoorsmen Patrick Mertes and Michael Sh…
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Some of My Favorite Diabetes Memes
We all know that having diabetes or caring for someone who has diabetes can be challenging day in and day out. That’s wh…
Senator Amy Klobuchar Calls For Lower Insulin Prices
In a speech announcing her 2020 candidacy for president, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), said she would take the necessary…
8 Reasons Why Insulin is so Outrageously Expensive
This story was co-written by James Elliott and Elizabeth Pfiester. It originally appeared on T1International.
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The Most Popular Diabetes Stories of 2018
Thanks to the article published in Pediatrics, we might call 2018 the year of the low carb breakthrough. Finally, we hav…
Let’s Change the Way We Treat Diabetes
In the spring of 2002, very shortly after my husband Mike was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I overheard him speaking o…
Gif Me a Break: Annoying Diabetes Questions Edition
The questions are usually well-intentioned, asked by people who care because they love you or care because they are genu…
Earth Day and Recycling Diabetes Supplies
After three decades with type 1 diabetes, with fifteen years of pumping tens of thousands of blood sugar checks, I’ve ce…
Turkey Bidding For JDRF
Making life better for people with diabetes may just be for the birds. Bear with us here: A Wisconsin family with a hist…
Smart Answers to Annoying Diabetes Questions
My family and I get a lot of questions from the rest of the world about living with diabetes. Sometimes the questions ar…