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 recently returned from a short trip to Indianapolis, IN for a visit with Lilly Diabetes*. They hosted a summit with about a dozen people from the diabetes online community and gave us a chance to learn more about what…
The Diabetes Scholars Foundation does amazing work. They raise money to help get families and young adults to Friends for Life conferences. As if that isn’t enough, they also raise money to get young adults to college. I’ve written about what…
Among other things, Kerri and I were responsible for being “room captains” of the Adults with Type 1 room (sponsored by Insulet (thank you!)) at this year’s Friends for Life conference in Orlando, FL last week. Being a room captain…
I really do like the Medtronic System so far. It’s just unfortunate that I haven’t taken the time to write about the positives before experiencing another negative. For the past couple of years, I have been blessed to serve with…
The statue in the front lobby was one of the first things I saw when I walked in the door. And more than just a token representation of what Lilly is all about, it was the first of endless reminders…
I’m posting this on behalf of Mary Podjasek, President of the Diabetes Scholars Foundation. Her mission in life is to help bring more people to Friends for Life (not to mention college scholarships), and that is a mission I support…
Please head on over to Kerri’s blog and help us shape Friends for Life 2012. Thanks!
I’m a big fan of the CWD Friends for Life conferences. I attended my first in 2010, and it changed my life. Every person who lives with type 1 diabetes (and their family) deserves to attend this conference at least…
Last year, at my first Friends for Life (FFL) conference, I bumped into Gary Scheiner in the exhibit hall. He told me that they play basketball in the activity center in the evenings. I didn’t have any of my basketball…
The Johnson family returned from the 2011 Friends for Life conference late on Sunday. My brain is frantically trying to process all of the magic that I experienced, and I’ve been crazy busy catching up on home stuff. I feel…
While in Florida for the 2011 Family Support Weekend I heard a couple of stories that really stuck with me. For most families, coming to CWD events are very important. How important you ask? One family was scheduling a c-section…
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 at least three or…
In an ideal world I would be publishing this post on January 1, 2011, because that’s the time for big announcements, right? But early tomorrow morning I am heading out of town to work with Kerri and the folks at…
Me looking very serious at Friends for Life 2014 (www.childrenwithdiabetes.com). Don’t let this picture fool you – I’m usually smiling and trying to hug people. Hi, my name is Scott K. Johnson. I have lived with type 1 diabetes since…
Some of my first exposure to the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI) was from Gina Capone and the blog posts about attending ‘Mastering Your Diabetes‘, an intensive five-day course designed to teach self-management skills. She chronicled her time there, and it…
I first heard of Dan Hurley and his book, “Diabetes Rising“, over at Amy’s site (Diabetes Mine). She did a two part interview about a year ago (Part 1, Part 2), and there was something about what Dan said that…
theBetes:NOW is a really fun project that I bumped into at the CWD Friends For Life (FFL) conference. It’s a project that a couple of the super creative Dunlap teenagers are putting together, and I’m so impressed with how it…
Thank you all for the incredible amount of great feedback for an adults with type 1 track at Children WIth Diabetes, Friends for Life 2011. I am so grateful to be a part of this community. There are so many…