I’d like to share a guest post by Jay Haapala, recipient of a Prudential Spirit of Community award. His story is pretty awesome, and deserves to be told. I’m honored to give Jay a small platform to tell his story.
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On October 8, 2003 I was diagnosed [...]
Continue Reading →I’m pulling another wildcard here. The topic I’m skipping is about sharing some new blogs and/or blog posts I’ve read and loved. Finding new blogs to follow is actually one of my favorite things about Diabetes Blog Week — but I’m terribly behind. I’ve been travelling this past week and simply [...]
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Back by popular demand, let’s revisit this prompt from last year! Tell us what your fantasy diabetes device [...]
Click for the Freaky Friday – Friday 5/17 Link List
Just like in [...]
Click for the Accomplishments Big and Small -Thursday 5/16 Link List
We don’t always realize it, but each one of us had come a long way since [...]
I am excited to share some background on the upcoming Diabetes Hope Conference. Where did the idea come from? What do we hope to accomplish? Who’s behind this thing?
We hope we’ve answered most of those questions – ‘ Continue Reading →
Click for the Memories – Wednesday 5/15 Link List
Today we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere…. your or your [...]
Click for the We, The Undersigned – Tuesday 5/14 Link List
Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today
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Click for the Share and Don’t Share – Monday 5/13 Link List.
Often our health care team only sees us for about 15 minutes several times a [...]
I can cross “tour an insulin manufacturing facility” off my bucket list.
It was absolutely mind-blowing.
There is a lot of science involved, much of which I am not quite bright enough to understand. But the basic idea is that they start with some E. coli bacteria that is modified to produce insulin as it grows, [...]
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