As part of my continuing effort to highlight sports heroes with Type I diabetes, meet Scott Verplank – professional golfer, father of three, and an athlete who is living well with Type I diabetes. Verplank is often on the road for weeks at a time, playing in PGA events, eating airplane and hotel food, and playing for hours a day out in the... Read more
My husband and I have often wondered what will happen when our 11 year-old daughter leaves for college – not just the usual worries about boys, stress, grades, beer, you name it – but about her diabetes care and specifically, her health insurance. Should she switch to a new practice near college, or come home for treatment every three months?... Read more
I read this week about Belle, a beagle in Florida, who won an award from the Cellular Telephone Industry for saving his owner’s life by using a cell phone. Apparently Belle’s owner, Kevin Weaver, has “severe diabetes,” which I took to mean hypoglycemic unawareness. Since Kevin can’t sense when his blood sugar is about to drop, he had... Read more
Once your child has been diagnosed with Type I diabetes, you probably feel like you’ll never be able to leave him with anyone outside of your immediate family. (Even then, maybe not – my mother politely declines to give shots because she’s so worried she’ll make a mistake.) At some point, in order to get some sanity back into your... Read more
Prevent Type I Diabetes – Keep Your House a Mess!
Great news from the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, which published two studies last Friday: wild rats living in filthy sewers seem to have stronger immune systems than lab rats living in clean labs.
According to Fox News: “The studies give more weight to a 17-year-old theory that the... Read more
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