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There’s another kind of auntie our world needs: this one’s bond with the person comes not from blood, but from blood sug…

Although I was diagnosed three years ago, and Jack three months ago, neither of us has taken a speck of insulin. Having …

I called my friend Anne from the ER. “Lauren’s in the hospital,” I said. “She was just diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. A…

When my eleven month old niece, Ella, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I was equal parts stunned, angry, and sad. My …

Which brings me to the olden days of diabetes. Back when we had to walk barefoot both ways uphill in snow to get our NPH…

For 19 years, my focus and goal as the mother of a child with diabetes had been survival. And in life with diabetes, tha…

My experience babysitting Noah not only taught me new things about managing my own care, but it also gave me a newfound …

Dex Share meant that—if our entire family was home and our son went high or low—two cell phones and the Dex receiver wou…

I woke up the next day to a new life. My face was a mess. My body was cracked and broken and bruised and hurt. But my he…

Diabetes is learning to be careful about googling your disease.
Diabetes is hearing about other people's fear of needle…