I have a message for you! Exercising with diabetes is super hard, but you can be successful with it! Education, practice, and persistence can pull you through it. This short video is my entry into the 2013 Insulindependence Athletic Achievement…
I am so excited about this announcement! We have long talked about health care professionals and our desire for them to recognize the value of peer to peer support. This event may be one of the first steps in a…
See this guy? This is Neil Benchell. He is one of my favorite people in the world. He does magic tricks, tells jokes, flies airplanes and giant kites, rebuilds antique cars, and makes balloon animals. I’m sure there are some…
I first learned of this talk from a recent post that Bea shared. She is an amazing person, and you should be sure to check out her blog, Cranky Pancreas. I am a fan of TED Talks. They are almost…
I am one of those hardcore Cozmo nuts. Have you ever met one of us? We’re easy to spot. We usually have an old Smiths Medical Deltec Cozmo insulin pump that is well past its warranty period, is a bunch…
If you’re near Chicago, I’d love a chance to meet you in person! We’re doing a special episode of DSMA Live during the meetup. Cherise and I will be there in person, and we’re hoping George can dial in from…
Early last month I attended the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ. It was a large event that brought those related to endocrinology together from around the world. Going into the event I knew that…
This is another post in my series of Powering Through the Extraordinary (first post here), where I’ve decided to add running into my exercise arsenal. I’ve been sticking with a training program that I found through Runtastic (one of the exercise…
Wednesday of last week I sat down with Tom Bregmann to learn more about his non-profit foundation called Juvenile Diabetes No Limits. He’s a Minneapolis area guy, and I do whatever I can to connect with local folks who are…
I’d like to pass along some (hopefully) helpful information around some changes that are coming very soon in Medicare. I received this information from Terry Blankenship, VP of Patient Care for Diabetes Care Club. With that in mind, it’s clearly…
This is my friend Steve. He climbs stuff. Like walls, boulders, mountains, and pretty much whatever he can find that is climbable. I met him in person for the first time at the Roche Summit in 2012 and liked him…
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.…
Topic for today: 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…
Topic for today: Click for the Dream Diabetes Device Wildcard Link ListBack by popular demand, let’s revisit this prompt from last year! Tell us what your fantasy diabetes device would be? Think of your dream blood glucose checker, delivery system for insulin…
Topic for today: Click for the Freaky Friday – Friday 5/17 Link ListJust like in the movie, today we’re doing a swap. If you could switch chronic diseases, which one would you choose to deal with instead of diabetes? And while we’re considering…
Topic for today: Click for the Accomplishments Big and Small -Thursday 5/16 Link ListWe don’t always realize it, but each one of us had come a long way since diabetes first came into our life. It doesn’t matter if it’s been 5…
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 – ‘About the…
Topic for Today: Click for the Memories – Wednesday 5/15 Link ListToday we’re going to share our most memorable diabetes day. You can take this anywhere…. your or your loved one’s diagnosis, a bad low, a bad high, a big success, any…
Topic for Today: Click for the We, The Undersigned – Tuesday 5/14 Link ListRecently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a person,…
Topic for today: 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 year, and they might not have a sense of what our lives are…