Our Many Types of Diabetes Baggage (with Book Giveaway!)
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place! Any PWD (person with...
View ArticleMaking Diabetes More Sexy, Less Scary, for the Black Community
This February marks the 37th year of African American History Month (formerly Black History Month), and we’re pleased to mark the occasion by welcoming Chrystal Leary, a fellow D-advocate who’s become...
View ArticleDiabetes and Eating Disorders: Fellow PWD Shares Her Diabulimia Story
It is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and many in the patient blogosphere are bringing much-needed attention to this issue. This year’s theme is one that resonates well for us in the...
View ArticleAround the Diabetes Blogosphere: February 2013 Edition (of Love)
Hey there, D-Peeps! February may be a shorter month, but that doesn’t mean our Diabetes Online Community is short of amazing content. With love in the air as usual this Valentine’s month, we wanted to...
View ArticlePWD Leans On Spirituality & Meditation, and So Can You
If there’s one thing not lacking in this community, it’s people who are doing great things because of their own or a loved one’s diagnosis. You can put Kevin Marshall from Austin, TX, into that...
View ArticleWhen You Wish Upon A Pancreas… It’s DSMA March 2013
This month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog Carnival asks our community to stretch our imaginations, in order to address one of their funnest queries yet: Disney just gave you funding to...
View ArticleTCOYD Santa Clara, and Little Internet Things
Santa Clara, California, is a very sunny place, even in March. But I didn’t mind so much spending the whole of last Saturday indoors at the convention center there since TCOYD conferences are always...
View ArticleAround the Diabetes Blogosphere – March 2013 Edition
Hard to believe we’re already a quarter of the way through 2013! This Spring hasn’t exactly been a warm one for many of us, and some of us (like me) are staring out the window at snow right now....
View ArticleCartooning for Serious Healthcare – No Fooling!
Did you know the DiabetesMine team were secret artists, painting masterpieces with our lancets in our garage studios by night? Yeah… April Fool’s! Actually we’ve got, well… close to zilch artistic...
View ArticleLiving In the Kingdom of the Sick (with Book Giveaway!)
Although many people with diabetes tend to think just in terms of our own community, PWDs are actually part of a much larger community of folks with chronic illnesses; we are residents of the “Kingdom...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Diabetes Social Media Summits?
Everyone wants to know what the patient community is thinking these days. The explosion of social media and patient advocacy has fueled the desire for Pharma, device companies, health organizations and...
View ArticleNew Goodie Bag Targets Young Adults New to Type 1 (!)
Teens and young adults with type 1 diabetes age 16 and older are finally getting some long-overdue recognition and resources from the JDRF – hooray! The organization this week announced a new “toolkit”...
View ArticleThe Kerfuffle Over New Names for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
There’s been a longstanding discussion among patient advocates over the need for new, more descriptive names that would better differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The debate has hit a...
View ArticleOff to the 2013 Lilly Diabetes Blogger Summit: Got Questions?
About a dozen diabetes bloggers and advocates will be gathering in Indianapolis early next week for the second annual Lilly Diabetes Summit. The ‘Mine will be there participating — actually, I will,...
View ArticleNew Online Tool Helps Filter Diabetes News
Having lived with type 1 for close to four decades now, Gina Gaudefroy has seen her share of news stories and articles about the latest research and technology relating to diabetes. She was diagnosed...
View ArticleSpring Has Sprung for Exercise – April 2013 DSMA
You might say I’m excited about exercise these days. That could very possibly be an understatement. Not in many years have I had an exercise routine like I am currently embracing, one that I’m actually...
View ArticleAround the Diabetes Blogosphere — April 2013 Edition
They say that April showers bring May flowers… Of course, this month has once again also brought us some great blog posts from the Diabetes Online Community (DOC)! Here are some of our faves, in no...
View ArticleLilly Diabetes Summit Sequel: A Peek at Insulin Giant’s Workings
Last week, for the second year in a row, I attended the Lilly Diabetes Blogger Summit in Indianapolis and experienced up close and personal the place that’s been making the insulin that’s been keeping...
View ArticleActress with Type 1 Co-Stars in New Diabetes Documentary
You might remember when Sanofi US announced last November it was teaming up with actress Elizabeth Perkins, a type 1 herself since 2005, on a new diabetes documentary aimed at the importance of having...
View ArticleD-Blog Week 2013: Share and Don’t Share?
It’s D-Blog Week 2013! In its fourth year, this is a great “coming together” of the diabetes blogging community around selected topics of note to our community. The effort was spearheaded by Karen...
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