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Eight Times to Remember that People Mean Well when Really You Want to Whack Them

by Kimberly Ford Chisholm 10.24.2011 Lessons Earned
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There is nothing like type 1 diabetes to cause people to say the wrong thing.

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The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Adult Dilemma

by Greg Martin 12.05.2009 Uncategorized

ShareI have been a member of the JDRF staff for only 16 months.  But as the story goes, JDRF was started by a group of parents whose children had type 1 diabetes.  The parents were determined to find cures for their children.  And so it began that other families were the focus of the work [...]

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Sugar Mommy – Encouragement for Expectant Mothers with Type 1 Diabetes (conclusion)

by Shelly Jensen 10.30.2009 Uncategorized

ShareThis is the final entry in a series of four posts by Shelly Jensen. In the Hospital. My endocrinologist gave me great advice. He forewarned me that I would be more knowledgeable about my diabetes than the nurses would be in the maternity ward. The nurses who took care of me were extraordinary women and I [...]

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Sugar Mommy – Encouragement for Expectant Mothers with Type 1 Diabetes (part 3)

by Shelly Jensen 10.27.2009 Uncategorized

ShareThis is the third entry in a series of four posts by Shelly Jensen. Carbs, Carbs,Carbs (or not). Let’s get this out the way: when we are pregnant, we often crave food or can’t stand the sight of it. If you are like me, you crave carbohydrates. Even when I was going through morning sickness, [...]

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Sugar Mommy: Encouragement for Expectant Mothers with Type 1 Diabetes

by Shelly Jensen 10.19.2009 Uncategorized

ShareHeading into the second trimester of my first pregnancy, a friend asked me how I was feeling. She asked me this every time we talked but this time she said “I remember when I was pregnant that I felt sort of alone, like no one could possibly understand what my body was going through.“ I [...]

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