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Douchy Blog, lol

Post by Tina – read her bio here!
I just read this to Greg and he said “you sound like a douche”. Oh well, I am fighting lows and this how I am feeling. So if I do sound “douchy” forgive me.
 Last night I was at a party discussing the upcoming JDRF walk. This led to [...] [...]

The upside to diabetes

Living with a chronic illness sucks. There’s just no other way to put it. I’ve lost a lot of time thinking about diabetes – from the anger/denial when I was first diagnosed, to the constant worrying about my blood sugar, the sleep I lose on some nights due to lows, and all the [...] [...]

30 Things

 This post is by Stacey – read her bio here!
 
This week is National Invisible Illness Week and many people are blogging about it.
These are 30 things about my invisible illness you may not know … thanks to Crystal and Rachel (and probably other D bloggers) for sharing theirs; I thought I’d share mine too.
 
1. The illness [...] [...]

My Feet

Post by Coral – read her bio here!
There are so many things you have to think about as a PWD besides controlling your blood sugars that it would drive anyone insane. We are typically so preoccupied with our blood sugars and injections or boluses that we just don’t have time to think about everything else. That [...] [...]

An ACT1 in Crisis

This blog is by Katie – read her bio here
I just read this article through a post I found on TuDiabetes about 24 year old woman Amanda Starnes, recently diagnosed with T1 diabetes, struggling to stay out of the ICU while lacking health insurance and means to pay her medical costs.
““I need special insulin that [...] [...]