It is now the Fall time which means that the end of the year is right around the corner, and it will be here before we know it.  This means a lot of things.  Snow in the northeast, traveling home for the holidays, hopefully some cold weather in south Florida, but more importantly, a final re-order of supplies.  By now, all of my deductibles have been covered, so now I can get one last 90 day supply towards the end of December right before the beginning of the year and before the deductibles reset.  I love this time of the year.  It is like my one and only chance to stick it to the...

Last week I wrote a post about my visit to the Diabetes Research Institute and briefly touched on some of the research and progress that they are making.  I wanted to write this follow up post last week, but I’ve had some big things going on in my life lately that I can’t really speak about publicly yet, but I will soon enough, don’t want to count my chickens before they hatch. Anyway, I want to get to the idea of hope.  I have had mixed feelings about a cure throughout the years I’ve had diabetes.  I’ve had the, there will never be a cure attitude.  I have...

Going into my tour of the Diabetes Research Institute, I did not know a lot about the DRI and the research that was going on.  I knew that they were fully dedicated towards research and finding a cure and that if you are a mouse with diabetes, then that’s the best place to go for some help.  I’ve said before that even though I advocate for diabetes, cure and help until we find a cure, I do not understand the scientific and medical background of everything.  I get confused by the long and confusing names.  The DRI did a great job of breaking down what they were talking about....

This is my first post in a really long time.  A couple weeks ago my parents were getting ready to come down for a week so the weekend before that was Labor Day weekend and I decided to take the whole time off.  I have not posted anything and I made the decision to totally disconnect myself from the online world for the time that my parents were down here.  That was way too difficult to do, so I was caught tweeting a few times or making a few Facebook updates, but I didn’t write anything for a while.  I took time off from this blog, my business blog, my book, and a few other sites I...

I started thinking about some of my goals for 2012, diabetes and professional goals.  One of my goals is to attend more diabetes events and shows.  This year I went to the JDRF Walk in Boca Raton, the ADA walk in Fort Lauderdale, the Roche Social Media Summit and that was it.  Next year I want to go to ADA Scientific Sessions, Friends for Life, Roche Social Summit again, AADE, and many others.  If I could go to 1 a month, that would be AWESOME.  There are so many different events that it is tough for me to keep up with all the dates, the costs and just to know about the ones that are out...