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Wordless Wednesday: AADE Highlights
Photos from AADE 12 in Indianapolis. Four amazing diabetes advocates: (L to R) Hope Warshaw, Manny Hernandez, Amy Tenderich, and David Edelman. It was an honor being featured in their presentation. Great meeting Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999, at AADE … Continue reading
Posted in D-Meetups, Diabetes, Inspiration, Life, Photos, Shout outs
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Sorry Doc, Quitting isn’t an Option!
Have you ever sat in a meeting hall and listened to a presentation and suddenly realized that the hypothetical person the speaker was talking about could very easily be YOU? Most of us have that sort of experience at some … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Health, Heart, Lessons Learned, Life, Rants
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Lantus and the Power Outage.
My first blog post about adding insulin to my type 2 diabetes management regimen was going to be an inspired tale about my doing what’s best for me and taking the step of asking my doctor about making that change. … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Lessons Learned, Life, Medications, Photos
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Simon says: Let’s meet in Indy!
So, Simon said he was going to be in the U.S. for a month and wanted to see as many people and places as possible while here. And then Simon said he would be traveling to Indianapolis for a couple … Continue reading
Posted in D-Meetups, Diabetes, Photos, Shout outs, Travel
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Another look: It’s OK to Need Help
This post was originally written in March 2011. At the time I was going through a rather rough bout of depression, was struggling to get a handle on things, and ultimately made the decision to seek help. Given that May … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer, Depression, Diabetes, Heart, Lessons Learned, Life, Medications, Mental Health
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Worth a Read
Today is the first day of Diabetes Blog Week and the first prompt is all about sharing blogs that we think others may not know about and introducing them to the community. The majority of the blogs that I read … Continue reading
Posted in Diabetes, Diabetes Blog Week, Shout outs
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Mountains and Mole Hills
It’s day 27 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and the prompt is: 5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories. 5 Challenges & 5 Small Victories. Make a list of the 5 most difficult parts of your health focus. Make another … Continue reading
A Recipe for a Mascot
It’s day 24 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and the prompt is: Health Mascot. The challenge for today was to come up with a mascot for ourselves, our medical issues, our health focus, whatever. And provide a visual if … Continue reading
Madlib gibberish
Post for day 21 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and the prompt is: Health Madlib Poem. OK, the gibberish below is just that. Pure, unedited, computer generated gibberish. I followed the instructions of the prompt, went to the … Continue reading
Chicago Diabetes Expo 2012
Today is day 20 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and I’m going off prompt to talk about the Chicago Diabetes EXPO. The American Diabetes Association hosted their annual Chicago Diabetes EXPO last Saturday and, for the second year … Continue reading
My Diabetic Heart 