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Vacation

This post is by Annie!
With nearly half of my office out on vacation, it has gotten me thinking about what I would do if I could go on vacation from diabetes.  Imagine, being able to take off and go somewhere, without having to worry about packing test strips, insulin, pump supplies, glucose tabs and all the [...] [...]

Your Light is Shining Where You Least Expect

This post is by Caroline!
I got two voicemails from my mom last week that socked me in the gut in totally different ways.
The first was a very tense message saying that a dear relative was in the ICU. I was walking out of– of all places– tango class, and stopped dead in my tracks as [...] [...]

The Little Pump That Could…Sort Of.

This post is by Lesley!
It was as if the world was playing a practical joke on me…except it wasn’t funny and it certainly wasn’t practical.
I was simply going about my business at work when I heard the triple beep from my insulin pump. The triple beep usually means two things in my life – either [...] [...]

The Pissing Evil: Or, Diabetes Back in the Day

This post is by Caroline!
Did you ever play that game when you were a kid? You know……”If you could travel back in time, where would you go?” Yeah, don’t deny it. I bet you still fantasize about days gone by when you encounter some obnoxious Jersey Shore wannabe smacking her gum and yammering away on [...] [...]

DiaWho?!

This post is by Soara-Joye.
Happy Friday D-Folk! So, my betes is giving me tude today and I’m a bit out of it so I figured instead of not blogging at all I’d share the  very first blog I posted about type 1 back in 2007. I wrote it a few days after I had gotten [...] [...]