What does Diabetes look like?

What does Diabetes look like?

Mar 31, 2014 | Featured

from The Human Trial and Lisa Hepner … The challenge of making a film about this disease is that you can’t see it. People with diabetes look healthy, and it’s only when the complications become dire – blindness or renal failure – do they appear to be battling a...
Insulin Envy

Insulin Envy

Mar 21, 2014 | Featured

By Ginger Vieira I have insulin envy. Not every day (well, yes, every day). But some days it feels stronger than others. You insulin-producers. I envy you. I have insulin envy. I envy that moment when you get up in the morning and—instead of immediately pricking your...
What You Should Know About Flying with an Insulin Pump

What You Should Know About Flying with an Insulin Pump

Mar 17, 2014 | Featured

A Sweet Life > Features > What You Should Know About Flying with an Insulin Pump Melissa Lee | March 04, 2014   I’ve been pumping insulin for the last 14 years, and I travel frequently.  In fact, I’m on an airplane every couple of months. I always struggle...
DiabetesMine from AmyT: Tweaking My Basals, with Protein Tips

DiabetesMine from AmyT: Tweaking My Basals, with Protein Tips

Mar 1, 2014 | Featured

By AmyT on February 20, 2014 I’ve started working with Gary Scheiner’s Integrated Diabetes Services (diabetes education) practice again, in the hopes of rescuing what has been a pretty poor autumn/winter in Blood Sugar Land for me. (Don’t ever think that just because...
What is your definition of an advocate?

What is your definition of an advocate?

Feb 26, 2014 | Featured

Officially, dictionaries define an advocate as a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc. But an advocate is so much more than that. To begin with, an advocate is someone who identifies with a need, an issue. They can see a problem,...
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