Sunday Funnies: Veterans, We Salute You!

As Monday is Veteran’s Day, we have to give a shout-out to everyone who qualifies… Kudos to those vets who have served our country, and also to longtime PWDs! Thanks as always to the talented Jerry King, a regular contributor here at the ‘Mine…

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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, ......
GlySens (Still) Developing Implantable CGM (See Also: ICGM) As I write this, there's a continuous glucose monitoring sensor attached to my left arm. The little iPod-style receiver sits nearby on my desk, taking in blood sugar readings every few minutes and displaying those numbers on its color screen.What ......
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...