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I am a high school chemistry teacher and person with type 1 diabetes. I’ve been teaching for three and a half years and …

In early July 2011, I was a frail 114 pounds. I’m 5’5″ tall, and was all skin and bones. My sternum pr…

I remember the day my very kind endocrinologist told me “Your weight has gone up again. I’m concerned about the long-te…

That is the first line of Andie Dominick’s 1998 memoir, also titled Needles, on growing up with type one diabetes…

Since September of 1986, when I was seven, I have been living with type 1 diabetes. Day one of diabetes is mostly a blu…

Life – particularly with diabetes on board – is a series of choices. Looking back on the 20 years of my daughter Lauren’…

Asking what a clear liquid smells like sounds like an oxymoron, although it makes sense. Of course I’m talking about ins…

The theory in my family is that my pancreas had been dying a slow death for fifteen years. A cow’s milk-related allergy …

I adopted my first dog, a scruffy 10-pound terrier mix named Frankie, when I was an adult and fairly clueless about all …

Living with diabetes is stressful, frustrating and exhausting, and my general response to people who encourage me to fin…