May 6, 2020 | Eating, Featured, Foods, Recommended Books
OH MY GOODNESS, another very precious book by Amanda King (author and photographer) who has Type 1 diabetes and remembers the overwhelming feeling she had as we was being admitted to the hospital, at age 14.She saw the need for a book that explained Diabetes on the...
May 4, 2020 | Featured, The Prepared T1D
Last Wednesday, 4/29/20, we discussed getting organized and prepared, as a T1, in case of medical emergencies, when seeing our professional medical teams or helping our advocates to be prepared to understand our medical conditions....
May 1, 2020 | Featured, Pets
Please welcome with open arms and hearts, Polly, the beautiful black lab! Polly came to us from Santa (by way of our elf on a shelf) 5 years ago. She is truly our 4th child and she goes everywhere my kids (T1 Macey 10, Emma 9 and Cadien 7) go! She’s not a...
Apr 29, 2020 | Featured, Stories of D Life, The Prepared T1D
I’ve been “talking” about getting organized and prepared, as a T1, in case of medical emergencies, when seeing our professional medical teams or helping our advocates to be prepared to understand our medical conditions. Now, with Covid-19, the...
Apr 27, 2020 | Featured, Research News, Technology Updates
Demanding Better Diabetes Care in Hospitals was written by Mike Hoskins for DiabetesMine.com, 19 April 2020. This has been a problem for a long time … that’s what prompted me to write The Savvy Diabetic: A Survival Guide several years ago. ...
Apr 24, 2020 | Featured, Pets
This was a very fun and challenging story, as I didn’t realize until this morning that some of the cats have 2 names and that there were actually 6 of them, not 5, my first attempt at counting them. WOW! I mean, even as I read this, my allergies are...
Apr 17, 2020 | Featured, Pets
Just gotta love dachshunds!!! Please “meet turning 10 in May” Pickles, who lives with her precious T1, Harper, “turning 5 in May,” and her other (“human”) brother, Grant, along with dad Ben and mom Katie. (It’s hard to get...
Apr 13, 2020 | Featured, Research News, Technology Updates
Eli Lilly lowers insulin costs as coronavirus crisis deepens, as reported by Reuters on CNBC.com, 7 April 2020. Drugmaker Eli Lilly said on Tuesday it has capped the out-of-pocket cost for insulin to $35 per month to help diabetes patients across the United...
