One Size Does NOT Fit All

May 18, 2012.Reading time 10 minutes.

Diabetes Isn’t a Pants Size Diabetes Blog Week Day 5 Today’s Prompt: Today let’s borrow a topic from a #dsma chat held last September. The tweet asked “What is one thing you would tell someone that doesn’t have diabetes about living with diabetes?” Let’s do a little advocating and post what we wish people knew about […]

Friends For Life

May 17, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

Friends 4 Life Sugarboy was dxd in Feb of 2007. During the week post diagnoses during my nightly searches for information about Type 1 diabetes I found the Children With Diabetes website and a link to the Annual Friends 4 Life conference held in Orlando each July. I didn’t hesitate to register our family for the conference […]

Cure Diabetes – Eat a Frosty

May 16, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

Wordless Wednesday (sort of – if you haven’t figured it out yet I’m not a wordless kinda gal) The owner of the Greater Austin Area Wendy’s has Type 1 diabetes. His own son was dxd a few years ago. He has been supporting the JDRF for I don’t know how long with these awesome coupon […]

Tag Line

April 26, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

Stick With it Sugar….. Day 26th of Health Activists Wrtiter’s Month Challege Today’s prompt: Health Tagline. Give yourself, your blog, your condition, or some aspect of your health a tagline. Make sure it’s catchy! I have been looking forward to today’s post (not just because it falls on my birthday). I love tag lines. I […]

My Own Devices

April 23, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.

My own Devices…. Day 23 Health Activists Writers Blog Today’s prompt: Health Activist Choice Day – Write about whatever you want. As a parent of cwd (children with diabetes) when I think of Devices I automatically think of my kids insulin pumps, glucometers, and the Dexcom that is still sitting in its box getting dusty. […]