Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness while living with type 2 diabetes
Here 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?
From the International Diabetes Federation: 1 in 10 adults worldwide have diabetes. Over 90% have type 2 diabetes. Close to half are not yet diagnosed. Do you know if you are at risk?
Recently Oprah characterized using Ozempic for weight loss as “taking the easy way out.”
Wait. What?
Perceptions of Stigma in the Diabetes Online Community – a poster presented at 2017 IDF Congress.
Each morning is a new start and we get to do it all over again.
Sometimes diabetes patient advocacy looks like this.