by Reed | Feb 13, 2021 | Friends & Family
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...
by Reed | Jan 9, 2021 | Exercise, Friends & Family, Medical Professionals, Nutrition, Technology & Medications
Today marks my 58th year living with the Big D … and what a challenging, unpredictable and extraordinary year it’s been. Many thanks to those that helped get me here: insulin, medical pros, exercise, good diet, better tech, and – most of all – my faith, family and...
by Reed | Jan 6, 2021 | Friends & Family
Today is the 16th anniversary of my wife, Kendra, donating a kidney to her sister Kelly. This site is dedicated to Kelly as she experienced most every challenge of living with diabetes. Kendra is a special person and her gifts include kindness and helping others. ...
by Reed | Jun 27, 1997 | Friends & Family, Gratitude, Uncategorized
The two happiest days of my life are getting married and the birth of our only child, Connor. Born at Piedmont hospital in Atlanta, a year later we moved to Memphis and to Kansas City when he was four years old. As you know by now, Connor was diagnosed with...
by Reed | Sep 18, 1993 | Friends & Family, Gratitude, Uncategorized
Where do I start with the woman I love and share my life with? I met Kendra in early 1993 at a place called Jocks & Jills in Midtown Atlanta. As we began dating, I shared my diabetes and Kendra said that she understood as she had 2 sisters living with type 1. ...
by Reed | Apr 15, 1987 | Friends & Family, Gratitude
I moved to Atlanta in 1985 after accepting a job transfer with AT&T. I was 25, and it was a big move for me. Until then, I had stayed close to my nest in and around Kansas City. With that came a comfort zone of family, faith, friends, lifelong sports teams, a...
