Facebook’s On This Day feature certainly knows how to yank my chain. Up it pops to say, On this day nine years ago…and p…
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Do You Celebrate Your Diabetes Anniversary?
Do you remember the date you were diagnosed with diabetes? Is there a pancreas-shaped mylar balloon that we can blow up…
Disclosing My Diabetes to My Students
I am a high school chemistry teacher and person with type 1 diabetes. I’ve been teaching for three and a half years and …
A Dangerous Diabetes Misdiagnosis
In early July 2011, I was a frail 114 pounds. I’m 5’5″ tall, and was all skin and bones. My sternum pr…
How I Lost 120 Pounds and Gained Control of Diabetes and Myself
I remember the day my very kind endocrinologist told me “Your weight has gone up again. I’m concerned about the long-te…
I Know About Needles
That is the first line of Andie Dominick’s 1998 memoir, also titled Needles, on growing up with type one diabetes…
Day One of Life with Diabetes: Memories from Diagnosis Day
Since September of 1986, when I was seven, I have been living with type 1 diabetes. Day one of diabetes is mostly a blu…
The Choices of Diabetes: Reflections on a Twentieth Diaversary
Life – particularly with diabetes on board – is a series of choices. Looking back on the 20 years of my daughter Lauren’…
What Does Insulin Smell Like?
Asking what a clear liquid smells like sounds like an oxymoron, although it makes sense. Of course I’m talking about ins…
My Way-Too-Sweet Sixteen: A Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis Story
The theory in my family is that my pancreas had been dying a slow death for fifteen years. A cow’s milk-related allergy …