Sunday Funnies: You Are What You… Oooh

Geez, we’re glad this doesn’t make the list of actual diabetes complications… Kudos today to social media guru, funny man, and illustrator Mr. Mike Lawson, who knows we can all use a laugh amid the attempts to carb-count and dose perfectly eve…

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On Becoming a Diabetes Warrior Diabetes education + fun probably sounds like an oxymoron, right? Well, not if you're Wil Dubois, DiabetesMine's resident weekly Ask D'Mine columnist. As if the guy doesn't have enough to do, what with working as the Diabetes Coordinator at the bu......
Congrats Jenny Yang! Our good friend Jenny Yang is featured in LA Weekly as one of their People of 2015!There’s a bit in Jenny Yang’s stand-up routine in which she lifts her shirt halfway up and juts out her belly as far as possible. She talks about how her protruding stomach can be interpreted as either a real baby or a food baby.It’s the latter.“Let’s just not comment on women’s bodies,” she says to a giggling crowd.Over lunch at Baccali, her favorite Hong Kong cafe in the San Gabriel Valley, she says, “As an Asian-American woman, it’s always [about] whether or not we...
How can I get my adult 25 yr old child to agree to go for help or even an assessment? She was hospitalized at 12 for 5 months. I don’t know your relationship with your daughter, or how dire of a situation they are in, so I don’t know how applicable my advice will be. Or what you’ve tried already. But I think you need to talk to her like an adult. Try reasoning with her, make sure she has all the information on what that would entail. Make sure she knows the consequences of her disorder if she doesn’t get help. It’s hard trying to get people to go for help, and it’s hard to change the minds of disordered people, because it’s not always them that you’re...
Navigating the Friendly Skies with Diabetes From now until the end of the year is the nuttiest time of year for traveling. And with stricter Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rules, shoe removals, the ban on liquids, and ever-longer lines, airport security is a whole new form of ......
Metal Jam: An Introspective on "Brittle" Diabetes A friend in the health business recommended this book. (Thank you, Matthew!) I googled it, and found it was written back in 1985 and fits this description:"A young Englishwoman grapples with a singularly unstable type of diabetes."Based on those ......