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amy mercer

posted 10/16/2007, comments (3)

Chronic Illness a taboo subject

A new survey posted today on Health Central has revealed that Americans are reluctant to discuss having a chronic illness. I think this is really interesting and relates to my "telling the truth about diabetes" post and keeping our disease close to our chest, to ourselves. 10% of respondents in the survey said they'd prefer to... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/11/2007, comments (5)

Telling the Truth about diabetes

I just wrote an essay for skirt! magazine (www.skirtmag.com) on telling the truth about diabetes. In it, I talk about growing up and trying so hard to be just like everyone else and how the disease, being relatively invisible, made that mostly possible except when it came to mealtime... I feel like it's only recently that I don't... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/08/2007, comments (5)

A Long Life with Type1

I get angry reading or hearing only the real bad "things" about diabetes, and I feel bad for children.. this can scare them so much!The complications can and do happen to many diabetics but there are thousands of us that have lived very long lives with it and have no complications.. I am in my 50th year with Juvenile-Diabetes and... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/25/2007, comments (2)

Diabulimia in People Magazine

My younger sister, who is also has type 1 diabetes, told me to read the latest issue of People magazine, she's all fired up about it. The article tells the story of a young woman with type 1 who struggled for years with what is now labeled, "Diabulimia". Erin was fired up about these young woman risking their health to be skinny. I... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/19/2007, comments (2)

Waffle Cones

We took the boys to Marble Slab Cremery last night, Miles went #2 in the potty and that was his reward. It was a beautiful night, we are having a rare cool spell in the south and have turned off our ac and opened the windows and so we sat outisde with the boys at the strip mall eating ice cream from gigantic waffle cones. Miles asked me... Read more Chevron

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