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7 Ways to Cope with Diabetes Burnout
You can’t hire a babysitter for your diabetes and have a romantic dinner out. You can’t take a vacation to a tropical island and leave diabetes at home (and if you’re anything like me, diabetes and tropical drinks are a recipe for disaster to begin with).
DBlog Week: No Colleagues with Diabetes
Today is the third day of Diabetes Blog Week. Its founder, Karen Graffeo, suggests that “now seems like a great time to explore the emotional…
DBlogWeek #3: Down on Diabetes
I personally never get really down because of my diabetes. I only get down because of how others are down on diabetes. Overall, diabetes is a tough…
DBlog Week: As Compared to the Ideal Self
Today is the second day of Diabetes Blog Week. Its founder, Karen Graffeo, proposes: “Write a poem, rhyme, ballad, haiku, or any other form of poetry…
Diabetes Blog Week, Day 2: Poetry
What diabetes is The problem is What diabetes isn’t Which is ever not In and out dusk and dawn It is and it is and it is I left my nothingness At…
The Factory Farming of Patients
When did we decide medicine was more about making money than making people well? Yesterday I went for my annual mammogram. I go to the same medical…