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 j…
Parenting (Children)
Diabetes Is Not A Guessing Game
I grew up around needles, meters, insulin, test strips and blood. I grew up to know the moodiness, the fatigue, the weig…
Girl With Diabetes and Insulin Allergy to Receive Pancreas Transplant
A 12-year old South Carolina girl with Type 1 diabetes and what her parents describe as an intense allergy to insulin th…
Usher Takes Son to Diabetes Camp, Misses Manchester Benefit Concert
When superstar Usher explained to the world why he had to miss the Manchester Benefit Concert this week, the average par…
5 Ways Diabetes Made Me A Better Mother
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 …
My Daughter Without Diabetes
My older daughter – the one without diabetes – is expecting her first child, a girl, due this summer. My granddaughter w…
My Husband and I Had Different Diabetes-Parenting Styles
I opened my daughter Lauren’s diabetes log book (this was, obviously, long ago). I’d just returned from my first busines…
A Diabetes Mom’s Thoughts on the Horrific Murder of Alex Radita
Of all the photos taken over 20 years of my daughter Lauren’s diabetes life, the one that haunts me is the one in which …
The (Almost Always) Confident Parent of A Child With Diabetes
Is it odd that I sometimes yearn for the simple days when we had no social media (to scare us even as it supports us), n…
The Never-Relaxed Parent of A Child With Diabetes
“Are you back?” I asked my son, as I always do when he’s had a low blood sugar and then juice.
“No,” he answered.
I chec…