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{Disney with Diabetes} Pressed Pennies
Join me this week as I share some experiences traveling this summer with diabetes. When I found out that we were going to go to the annual Children With Diabetes Friends For Life conference, I began...
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{YouTube Tuesday} Kid President
In my book Kids First, Diabetes Second there is an entire chapter devoted to the language of diabetes. One of the sections is diabetes slang and includes some of the best phrases and words used by...
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{Diabetes Art Day} Time To Get Creative
Did you know that the cover of my book was inspired by Diabetes Art Day? It’s true. Karen Graffeo, my friend who writes Bitter-Sweet, made a piece of diabetes art for the 2010 event. We asked her to...
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{In Q’s Words} Hope
Q told me that she took a spelling test with her teacher. Q: The word was “hope” and I kept saying to myself “Don’t look at your bracelet, Q. Don’t look at your bracelet.” Me: Did you look? Q: No. Me:...
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{Our Story} Living Vertical
My husband and kids tagged along when I went to Indianapolis for the 2012 Roche Social Media Summit. My family was returning to the hotel from lunch as the summit was ending. Steve Richert was the last...
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{D-LOL} Toaster Strudel
While at our most recent endo appointment, she asked if we have been having better luck with the post-breakfast blood sugar spike. She asked if we tried having lunch foods for breakfast and if that...
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{D-LOL} The Ninja Strikes Again
George, AKA Ninjabetic, is one of my favorite PWD’s* that I get to see in person a couple of times a year. He just launched Ninjabetic TV with his first episode and I was LMAO. I can’t wait to see...
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{Diabetes Awareness Month} Blue Cupcakes!
My friend Allison Blass, author of With Faith and Grace and occasional contributor to Diabetes Mine, has opened a new Etsy shop called Blue Cupcake offering “Diabetes-Inspired Handmade Greetings .” Her...
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{Holidays} Advent Calendar Redux
Join me for a week of holiday-inspired posts! The past few years I purchased a $2 Advent calendar at Walgreens filled with tiny chocolates that were so few in carbs I didn’t even have to bolus for...
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Twelve of 2012
It wouldn’t be the end of the year without a “top” list post, would it? Some of these are firsts for us, some are exciting, some are unwanted. But here are twelve diabetes-related things that have...
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{D-LOL} Lessons Learned
Lesson 1 Do not call your daughter “stinky feet” when her blood sugar is low because it will make her cry and hurt her feelings. Lesson 2 Do not say, “If my feet smell, you can call me ‘stinky feet’...
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{YouTube Tuesday} Think Like a Pancreas
Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin–Completely Revised and Updated written by Gary Scheiner. is my go-to diabetes management book, especially when I need to...
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{D-LOL} Cupcakes
I don’t know if I had d-mommy brain or if it was a Freudian slip, but this is now a running joke… Me: You can eat that cupcake outside, but you have to pay for it first. Q: (Looks at me weird.) Me: I...
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Jim Turner of Arli$$ fame, who happens to live with type 1 diabetes, was in my town earlier this year and I somehow talked him into letting me pick him up, go out for coffee, and drop him off at the...
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{YouTube Tuesday} Things Diabetics Say
MadeYewLook is a YouTube channel made by an incredible make up artist who happens to have diabetes. Did I mention that she’s really funny? In honor of diabetes awareness month, she has a great video...
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