Diabetic Partner Follies — A PWD’s New Husband Speaks Out

I am delighted to share our newest edition of the Diabetic Partner Follies – a series we launched here at the ‘Mine several years ago to give a voice to all the loved ones of PWDs out there about what life is like from their end of the ‘Big D.’ T…

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Introducing ePatient Community Delegates: Merle Gleeson & Karen Graffeo With our annual Innovation Summit coming up in mid-November, it's been fun over the past several weeks sharing the stories of the PWDs selected as winners of our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship Contest. Today, we're happy to introduce......
Memory/Loss Earlier this week, I got word that a woman who called herself "Goddess" online has passed away. She had over 6,000 friends on the DiabeticConnect community site. To be honest, I didn't know much about her other than the tips and questions she post......
A Funny Thing Happened As I Fell Off My Spin Bike OK, I didn't exactly fall, but it's the closest I've come since I started taking spin classes a little over a year ago...On Dec. 31, hubby and I decided to attend the "New Year's Special" combo class - 60 minutes of body conditioning followed by a......
Around the Diabetes Blogosphere – July 2011 Edition We're in the height of summer, but that doesn't mean the DOC is slowing down. We hope you've all been enjoying our Summer Reading series of guest posts here at the 'Mine. Today, check out our top picks of not-to-miss posts for July from all aroun......
‘I don’t know how to get better’: Laia Abril shows the hell of eating disorders The Spanish photographer's sombre and affecting photobook The Epilogue tells the story of Cammy Robinson, who died at 26 as a result of bulimiaIn 2010, Laia Abril started a project on eating disorders with a multimedia piece called A Bad Day. It looked head-on at the daily life of a girl struggling with bulimia and was a wilfully uncomfortable experience. Out of that came a self-published 'zine, Thinspiration, in which Abril documented the controversial Pro-Ana community which, in her words, "has turned anorexia (Ana) into its dogma" and where activists "venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian 'lifestyle'." Continue...