Life is all about spending time with great people, which is exactly what I did on Monday night. Kathy White blogs at “my new islets” and writes about her experiences receiving an islet cell transplant at the University of Minnesota’s Schulze Diabetes Institute. Kathy hails [...]
Continue Reading →The CWD Family Support Weekend runs through the new year holiday. Many of these families have been spending the new year holiday together for a number of years. The kids and teens are all about bringing in the next 365 days with the [...]
Continue Reading →The recent CWD Family Support Weekend I attended had about three-hundred people, plus the volunteer staff. While much smaller than the giant Friends For Life conferences, 300+some is still a BUNCH of people.
It took me [...]
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In an effort to help spread the word about great things happening around the diabetes community, I’d like to share that Diabetes Sisters recently opened up registration for the 2011 Weekend for Women Conference in Raleigh, NC. The conference will take place on April [...]
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Are you an “insulin user who wants focused, expert information that is relevant to your daily life?” (from their press release). You might be interested in a new project that Gary Scheiner recently launched called Type-1 University.
Gary is looking to overcome some of the challenges that keep many of us from [...]
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I first heard Joe Solowiejczyk when he was in Minneapolis a few years ago to speak at a JDRF Walk kickoff meeting. I liked him almost instantly. He has lived with type 1 diabetes for about 50 years, and his specialty is the mental aspect of living with type 1 diabetes. I am a big [...]
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I have rarely, if ever, seen Jeff Hitchcock without a camera. Not only does he always have a camera with him, he also knows how to use it. Jeff spends much of the conferences roaming around with his camera and capturing some of the magic. I love that he does that! Most of the Continue Reading →
On the beach for the CWD Staff Retreat on Wednesday, I got pretty sunburned. It was bad enough to give me a little headache later in the evening, and I thought I’d be miserable for another day or two. Thankfully, after washing up for the night, putting on some fancy hotel brand lotion, and getting [...]
Continue Reading →Being the new guy on the volunteer staff at CWD’s Family Support Weekend, I made a point to introduce myself to as many of the other staff as I could.
The night before the opening session, I crossed paths with Neil Benchell, who helps keep the tween’s entertained. I’d met his [...]
Continue Reading →One of the revelations I had here with the Children With Diabetes (CWD) family is that both CWD and the Diabetes Online Community (DOC) want the same thing, and we both have the same problem.
We both want to help people with diabetes, but that’s not exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the [...]
Continue Reading →Scott K. Johnson
Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in April of 1980, I recognize the incredible mental struggle of living with diabetes.
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