Sunday Funnies: Keeping Tabs

Diabetes Police, anyone… ? Thanks again to the talented Jerry King, an accomplished worldwide cartoonist and all-around mega-talented guy who draws for us regularly.

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"Islands and Insulin" Recharges… (with Book Giveaway!) It's taken me a little longer than expected to get around to posting this review of Erin Spineto's new book "Islands and Insulin" -- but hey, good things take time, right? It's a different kind of diabetes book from any I've encountered so far; it......
Diabetes Art Day 2014: Vision Loss Doesn’t Stop This Painter! Hey Everyone -- we're marking another Diabetes Art Day today!This is actually the 5th year that our Diabetes Online Community has embraced this web-based initiative to "tell a story about life with diabetes" through creative visual expression. Dre......
Sneak Peek: "15 Surprising Trends Changing Healthcare" As people with diabetes, it behooves us to pay attention to how digital health tools will benefit, harm, enlighten, confuse, empower, disempower and influence people, now and in the years to come.Two futurists are hoping to make that easy for us, ......
A Love Letter to My Patients in Early Recovery from Anorexia You recently accused me of wanting you to be fat. Here's what I've been thinking. . . . Long after we part ways, I'll remember the sound of your voice, the tender and emotional moments we shared, those times we burst out laughing together. I'll have little memory of what you weighed.I have no investment in wanting you, according to your eating disorder, to be fat. What I care about is your brain, that it's nourished sufficiently for you to think clearly and be yourself again. I'd like to see you return to the you you were before this ugly...
I don’t know where I would be without the people I have met on my recovery journey I am a very lucky person. For most of my adult life I have had many friends around me. But for years I felt like the loneliest person in the world. It is only now, after having gone through years of treatment that I have realised that it was only myself that I had to blame for my loneliness. For the most part I found that my friends and family have been supportive to me in recovery and it was only my own fears and insecurities that was making me push them away.I told almost no-one about my problemsFor...