I spent and lot of time here talking about how amazing life can be despite diabetes; how the burden of this disease – as unimaginably heavy it is – does not have to stop you from savoring life. But sometimes, it just stops me cold. It shocks my soul. It, well, it pi$$es me [...]

  Lauren’s birthday falls right around the first day of school each year (she was born on Labor Day, which was fun to say that day. “It’s LABOR day!”) When she was at that party age, we always had the birthday party before the start of school, and then dug into the frenzy of getting [...]

We’re nearly 15 years into life with Type 1 diabetes on board at my house. We’ve seen a lot – the once-cool “Dex” meter that held the strips in a drum and looked like (well at least to me) a packet of birth control pills. The advent of not just insulin pumps – but insulin [...]

Today’s D-Blog week topic is simple: What I wish you would know. The idea is to open up about something about life with diabetes on board that I don’t usually share. Here goes.   I am well known in the diabetes world and so is my amazing daughter. We’ve spoken in local and national venues, [...]

Well, I’m late to the game but I’m here, ready to take part in the third annual Diabetes Blog Week, created and coordinated by Karen at bittersweetdiabetes.com. Each day Karen gives us a prompt to write on. Kind of a bummer my first is today since it’s “What I can do better.” That said, I’ll [...]

Hi Guys! First of all, I will be joining in on the annual Diabetes blog Week fun as of tomorrow. Driving to DC and back to bring Miss Lauren (now officially a college junior!) home took me away from things for a bit. But I have to share! As most of you are aware, I [...]

The Time cover! The Time cover! It is the buzz in media today, which must make the limping magazine quite happy. I’m not in any way interested in debating what age you should breastfeed until or what attachment issues mean. (I will confess to feeling my jaw hit the floor when a friend recently nursed [...]