A voice for living well with Type 1 Diabetes

Resilience

… is the one (of two) words that describe (what I believe) are essential to living well with type 1.  Let’s take a closer look at the meaning of resilience. It’s an adjective – used to describe a person place or thing. And that person...

Changing It Up

Grounding Yoga & Meditation:  Morning stretch; silent breath and body Mindfulness:  burgers on grill for company pot luck luncheon (great temps!) Gratitude:  conversations with coworkers during pot luck luncheon (first after pandemic) July 2, 2021 Daily Changing...

Best Practices #2: Friends & Family (The Support)

Living life with diabetes has been better when family was close.  This includes the first fifteen years of my diabetes when I lived at home before graduating from high school.  By today’s standards, those years of managing diabetes were primitive (one shot a day, no...

The 1 Big Thing

Own it. When our son was diagnosed, his emergency room physician said it best: “I am sorry that you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes.  But you have a choice.  Own your diabetes and you can control it.  Ignore it and it will control you.  You can live a productive life...