Your Diabestie Episode 10 – Healthcare Realities: Navigating Diabetes, Representation, Change and Advocacy
I appeared on the Hangry Woman’s pod, Your Diabestie. The conversation was wide ranging and about all things diabetes.
Continue readingI appeared on the Hangry Woman’s pod, Your Diabestie. The conversation was wide ranging and about all things diabetes.
Continue readingHere we are, in the wake of another Diabetes Awareness Month. A month of being bombarded with tributes to Dr. Banting, ads featuring that musician and his snazzy CGM, and PSAs going on and on about how we need to look for the signs. The same old questions came up – yet again. Why don’t we see more people with type 2 diabetes online?
Continue readingRecently Oprah characterized using Ozempic for weight loss as “taking the easy way out.”
Wait. What?
Continue readingIt was about five years ago that I wrote my first article about the importance of disaster preparedness when living with diabetes. Looking back, the advice I gave then seems almost quaint. It was all about making sure your devices were charged up and you had a backup battery. These days disaster prep requires so much more.
Continue reading𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? This international effort by 51 people affected by diabetes from 18 countries generated a strong research-backed statement in response to the harm done by diabetes stigma and discrimination. Let it be a catalyst for positive change. To find out more and take the pledge visit EndDiabetesStigma.org.
Continue reading2021 was bookended by COVID. We started the year hoping that the pandemic would end and we could get back to some kind of normalcy. But, here we are. Not only does COVID remain at the forefront, with the Omicron variant it looks like the pandemic will continue to disrupt our lives well into 2022. People are tired of living their restricted life and with all the uncertainty. They want it to end. They want to return to normal, even if it’s a “new” normal. They question how much longer they can continue keeping their distance and wearing masks. Maybe they should ask their friends and family how they got through World War II. Oh yeah, the 1940s are now barely at the edge of living memory. How soon we forget.
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