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It's been a bit busy this week, leaving me somewhat late on reporting back on Saturday's d-group meeting to see Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin, a special exhibit showing at the New York Historical Society. Since I had to work Sunday, this ended up as the total of my World Diabetes Day celebrations this year.
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I guess technically, I joined the diabetes online community back in October, 2005 when I joined dLife, and I became active in the overall DOC some time in 2008 -- but it wasn't until this year that I, and others, had the opportunity to "eyeball" the folk we'd been e-mailing, blogging to, commenting blog posts from, tweeting, and otherwise conversing with on various diabetes-related forums and social networks. 2009 is also the year dLife launched the dLife Community, and the year I started blogging here at Blogabetes.
Some of my year's highlights include:
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At faire:
New club member (sotto voce, to partner): I'm 145. I need something low-carb. (to group) Any idea where I can get something low carb?
Me: Diabetic?
New member: Type 1. (holds up structured leather pouch with diabetes gear)
Me: Pump or shots?
Her: Wireless pump.
Me: Omnipod?
Her: Yes.
Me: I'm Type 2, diet and exercise. Best I can think of for low-carb are those turkey drumsticks, steak-on-a-stake, or if they're selling jerky...
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The initial phrases of the Girl Scout song reminding us of how precious friendship is are as true today as they were over forty years ago, when I first learned the short round. And so it was into Manhattan Sunday morning to meet with a dozen or so members of the Diabetes Online Community and "Type 3" friends for brunch at Marseille. The gaggle of us varied in how we embrace digital communications technology to first learn about each other and virtually "meet" -- most of us blog, either independently (e.g., The Butter Compartment, Lemonade Life) or as part of a major diabetes portal (e.g.,, dLife, Diabetes Daily), or within a diabetes-oriented social network (e.g., TuDiabetes); many of us Tweet; a few are just community members who occasionally read blogs or get involved one way or the other. (READ MORE)
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It's making me wait
Keeping me waiting
At least 'til tomorrow, Monday, next week...
That's when a gaggle of us dBloggers and D-OC folk will be meeting up in NYC for brunch and whatever. It will be the first time I'll meeting any of these folk "IRL" -- "in real life" -- for the first time, even though some are within a reasonably short commute. I'm also likely to be the oldest in the group (except for The Other Half), and I think I may be the only Type 2 (except, again, for The Other Half). It's going to be an interesting meet...
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Lindsey is a typical, yet unique, Texas girl who loves shopping, movies and reading. She loves to travel and take risks. She dreams of diabetes cures, never-ending cheesecake and her own airplane. The rest you can discover in her blog!
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Kim is a computer systems administrator for a major food manufacturer
and lives in Colorado with her husband, Steve, and their children. She
currently battles the bulge and tries to develop an exercise habit to
better manage her blood sugars.
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