It seems that lately over the past few months there are more and more diabetes projects and awareness campaigns and chats either starting, or just becoming a lot more popular with more and more people. And ya know what? I LOVE it! I absolutely love that there are so many different awareness campaigns and chats. [...]
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Diabetes is at a disadvantage and there is one large reason why. Bad information! How many times do you hear people talk about diabetes cures and just lose weight and you will lose your diabetes. How about you stop breathing and you won’t lose your life? There were some tweets the other day from some [...] Well, yesterday I mentioned that I had some exciting news. This probably isn’t exciting news for you, but it is for me. I have put the independent work to the side and decided to get back into the office / team environment and get a “corporate” job. After a good search, I was given word [...] How many times have you heard yourself use this phrase, or something close to it? Sometimes I use words a little more intense then idiot. I don’t like to call people idiots because you don’t know there education background and where they grew up. So they may have never heard of diabetes, I know I [...] Last week when I was home, one of the most important things that I wanted to do was spend time with my 4 “nieces” and also my niece. Let me explain that in detail quickly. My “nieces” are actually my cousins, but my aunt was more like a sister to me because of our closeness [...] Yesterday I had to refill my insulin cartridge at work and it made me think about a couple of things. First, what reaction am I going to get from people who walk by? Why do I have two vials of insulin in my laptop bag and both have 2 refills left in them? Why is [...] This past weekend I went up to Daytona Beach, FL for the Daytona 500 race. This was my second consecutive year going. I met a guy up there who said that he has gone to 42 straight, this year’s was the 52nd so he only missed the first 10 races. That sounded like a great [...] My lack of sleep over the past few weeks is finally starting to catch up on me. I seem to always be dragging and not at full strength. I am getting a lot of work done and staying focused on my work, but as soon as I step away from my desk, I can’t seem [...] At my old job I talked and communicated with a lot of other diabetics, but I didn’t actually work with any other diabetics. At one of the places I do on-site consulting for 3 days a week, Volvo Aero Services, I have been introduced to 2 other diabetics already. This is a great feeling. The [...] This is a conversation that I had today at lunched. Now, some of you may agree and some of you will disagree, strongly. The discussion was brought up about the $100 million Obama is going to send to the care of Haiti. The question was posed to me, “Doesn’t that piss you off that they [...] |
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