GLOBE SET TO GO BLUE FOR WORLD DIABETES DAY – IDF

Red states protest.

COMICS TO EDUCATE CHILDREN ABOUT DIABETES – Headlines India

I just flew in from Los Angeles and man, are my arms tired. How are you all doing tonight? What a good looking crowd we have here. Hey, this ever happen to you? So last night I’m getting intimate with my wife and things are going pretty good and my pump starts beeping like crazy … Shoot! Wrong set. Sorry kids.

THREE EASY TRICKS TO FIGHT DIABETES – Men’s Fitness

Vanishing woman

Levitating quarter

Needle through balloon

With everything else out there that allegedly fights diabetes, why not.

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DIABETES GIRL’S MUM SETS UP SUPPORT GROUP – S Wales Argus

"Em, right. Thank you all ever so much for coming out tonight to my very first support group meeting. I’m Diane. Right. My first question is this. Is it wrong that I refer to my Emily as diabetes girl?"

LEARN ABOUT GOING TO COLLEGE WITH DIABETES – Syracuse Post

Know this. He stays up all night listening to Creed, never stops talking about his ex-girlfriend and won’t share his pot.

IS TYPE 1 DIABETES SEASONAL? – Leinster Leader

"Why the long face, champ?

"It’s this darn seasonal diabetes, dad. I just can’t take it anymore!"

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Today Susanne is meeting with the guidance counselor, Charlie’s teacher, the school nurse and the principal to go over our revised 504 plan. Someone from the district will also be there to make sure everything is legit. I wish I could be there with her but I can’t get out of work.

Sometimes I wonder if we’re going overboard with our 504 plan. It’s sounding less like a constructive 504 plan and more like an unreasonable list of demands.

Take item #4 for instance.

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It has oft been said that laughter is the best medicine -- but that is only true when one laughs with the joke -- when the joke is understood as humor, rather than derision.

A Type 1 in the TuDiabetes community recently blogged that she could not understand how diabetes -- especially old, outdated beliefs associated with Type 2 diabetes -- could be an acceptable topic for humor. She felt that making fun of diabetes, or people with diabetes, should be as (un)acceptable as making fun of someone with multiple dystrophy. Response to her discomfort ranged the gamut from "Lighten up!" to "Punch them out!", including stopovers in "How accurate was the comedian's description?" and issues of racial- and ethnic-stereotype-based jokes.

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I dropped into a local fast food joint for none other then fast food. It is an awful habit but since I always seem to be running around somewhere, fast food is the choice for me.

After ordering my food I walked over to the soda fountain to fill up my "biggest size you have" cup.

Let me explain that. I once asked for a 'Jumbo" soda and I got a large. I asked, "don't you have a size bigger than large?" And the worker said, "Yeah it's a 'Super Quencher'" I replied, "well yeah I wanted a "Jumbo" size which means the biggest size you have!" He said, "You have to say 'Super Quencher.'" I told him that I feel stupid saying that so I just took the large and left. Now back to the story.

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This is not the post I planned to write this morning.

Having a nearly one-hour commute (everyone flees the city in the summer, so traffic is much, much lighter) often gives me a lot of time to think. This morning I thought about what a crappy mood I had been in on Sunday and that it had carried over to this morning.

I tried to blame it on the kids: a four-day weekend trying to keep the kids entertained and not arguing and generally not getting on my nerves is exhausting.

I tried to blame it on AF: though she has left the building.

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