Diabetes Support Group

April 6, 2012.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Describe your ideal diabetes “support group”? What would you discuss? “This post is my April entry in the DSMA Blog Carnival. If you’d like to participate too, you can get all of the information at http://diabetessocmed.com/2012/april-dsma-blog-carnival-2/“ My Ideal diabetes support group – a group of adults with diabetes and parents of children with diabetes that encourage, […]

Juice

April 6, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

Juice in my home is kept in the same cabinet as the test strips, infusion sets, catridges, glucagon, extra batteries and spare meters. Of course a few are always kept in the fridge as well but are relegated to the butter compartment with it’s counterpart insulin. My kids know juice is medicine. Sometimes it urks […]

Haiku

April 6, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

Are you Kidding Me? I always hated Haikus! Now time to write one? (Does that count?) Day 6 Write a haiku about your health focus. Write as many as I like – who are they kidding?So here is my first attempt since high school to write a Haiku Stick with it sugar It never gets […]

Airplanes Elephants and Merri-Go-Rounds

April 5, 2012.Reading time 9 minutes.

Airplanes, Elephants and Merry Go Rounds Day 5 Health Activists Writers Challenge Month So today’s assignment was to go to http://www.flickr.com/explore and write an ekphrasis post about a random image. Sounds fun except I ran out of ‘word a day’ toilet paper before ever learning ekphrasis. Thus I had to look it up. According to Wikipedia: the […]

Why I write

April 4, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

I write because… I have only been at this diabetes blog thing for about 6 weeks. I started drinking the Kool-Aid as an outlet for my own thoughts and feelings. I didn’t expect many to find let alone read my blog posts aside from close friends who I guilt into doing so. Last time I […]