Living In the Kingdom of the Sick (with Book Giveaway!)

Although many people with diabetes tend to think just in terms of our own community, PWDs are actually part of a much larger community of folks with chronic illnesses; we are residents of the “Kingdom of the Sick,” a term coined by cancer patient …

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Dexcom G4 Receiver with Share Tech for iPhone – A New Video Review! Our good friend and fellow longtime type 1 and author Joanne Milo is back at the video product review game! This savvy lady, who appropriately writes a blog titled The Savvy Diabetic, has just submitted another great piece to our community review ......
Ecotherapy with Eating Disorders Written by Cliff Hamrick, LPC, McCallum Place Austin In his book, Biophilia (1984), biologist E. O. Wilson suggested the biophilia hypothesis, which states that humans have a natural affinity towards other living systems. These living systems include large systems such as forests, oceans, and fields, but can also include smaller systems such as leaves, feathers, and spider webs. But, considering that living systems exist alongside non-living systems, this affinity can be extended to include mountains, rocks, streams, and weather. In his books, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (2008) and The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with...
All About Those Diabetes Tattoos… A pair of Michigan insulin pump reps aren't ashamed to show the world they have type 1 diabetes, so much so that they have literally embedded ink on their arms to prove it.Diabetes tattoos are worn with pride by many of us in the D-Community, incl......
Bringing Simplicity to Insulin Pumping: The Making of Tandem’s t:slim Ever look at a diabetes product and wonder what the heck the developers were THINKING? People have to live with this stuff, after all! It's even more interesting when they occasionally get it right... Kim Blickenstaff, CEO of Tandem Diabetes Care......
First Backpacking Trip with Mirasol Clients There were those of us — myself included — who doubted it would be possible to incorporate backpacking into a residential eating disorder treatment program. Executive Director Diane Ryan, Admissions Director Carol Magee and I began talking about expanding Mirasol’s adventure therapy program to include backpacking in October, 2014. The challenges seemed overwhelming. First of all, since clients obviously don’t come to treatment outfitted for backpacking, we needed to purchase all the equipment from tents, sleeping bags and sleeping pads to flashlights, hiking poles and utensils. Over the next six months we patrolled eBay and Craigslist for good used equipment,...