Today’s post is a guest post from my good friend The Poor Diabetic .  If you haven’t read The Poor Diabetic before, than you are missing out.  Ronnie’s posts are fun, educating, and just down right awesome.  I met Ronnie for the first time out in San Diego for the Roche Social Media Summit.  After speaking with him, I have been wanting a guest post from him since.  So here we go, on the subject of diabetes education. I have been a diabetic for about 14 years and the real life experiences that come with that has to account for something when it comes to diabetes...

Diabetes Education and Educators: Who, What, Where and How? Brief intro: Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, has been a dietitian and diabetes educator for more than 30 years. She’s the author of several books about diabetes care and healthy eating published by American Diabetes Association. She’s currently on the national board of directors for the American Association of Diabetes Educators. She’s a member of Diabetes Advocates (www.diabetesadvocates.org) and is passionate about building bridges between diabetes educators and the diabetes online community (DOC). Check out her interview with...

Last week I was on vacation all week.  I went to a McDonald’s the first morning I was there to access the free wi-fi and that was the last time I connected to the internet.  I went on my phone every so often when I was bored and was waiting for people to get ready to go somewhere, but that is about it.  I don’t think that my automatic tweet was set up so I wanted to re-post all of the guest posts from week. Monday – Cara, Country Girl Diabetic Tuesday – Crystal, Randomly CapitalizeD Wednesday – Christopher, A Consequence of Hypoglycemia Thursday – Sarah...

Last week while I was on vacation I had the privilege of writing a guest post for Amy over at Diabetes Mine. Check it out my post about Life with Diabetes. Bookmark It Hide Sites

Today’s guest post is from Diabetic Parents. Parenting for us is full time job. So is diabetes. But luckily diabetes doesn’t ever outshine some of the best moments we’ve had as parents. From their first smiles to the silly things they do and say now that their older. But perhaps the best moment in parenting is watching them grow and learn. As a parent you get the opportunity to be an active participant and an unfortunate bystander to their learning and growth. It’s hard to watch them learn by trial and error. I remember the times when as babies they would spend...

Today’s guest post is from Crystal Lane from Randomly capitalizeD.  She wrote a nice poem for today’s post Break So close yet so far It’s within my reach If I want to take it But it feels like a dare One I am not sure I’m willing to take Challenges abound Constant change Progressive movement It’s stealth with it’s alluring temptation of relief After so long and so many invitations It all seems elusive Want it is a given Need it feels it must be Yet the idea, the thought puts me back in place To reality I go With a fake smile and an attitude I trudge through another...