In response to Mike Durbin's Diabetes Blessings Week, I've put together some first "thanks" we might have given upon our diagnoses...

The DKA Survivor — Thank goodness I'm alive!

Symptomatic Solly — Thank goodness we know what it is!

The New Type 1 (adult) — Thank goodness there's insulin!

The New Type 2 — Thank goodness I don't need insulin!

Type 1 (at Thanksgiving dinner) — Thank goodness I have insulin, so I don't have to say "no" to anything!

 

Just a Touch of "The Sugar" — Thank goodness there's a pill for that!

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) has been on my mind a lot these past few days. For those readers unfamiliar with US history, this particular Supreme Court decision supported -- and by its support, institutionalized -- racial segregation in the post-Reconstruction era. The words of the ruling -- that maintaining "separate but equal" facilities did not abrogate the rights of peoples of African descent -- were observed much more in the "separate" than the "equal". One of the unfortunate results of this policy was that blacks were denied most of the educational, legal, and employment opportunities afforded to people of completely European descent (look up "Jim Crow laws").

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Thursdays have become Racquetball night for me and my friends. As the four of us drove out to play all of my friends kept asking me what was wrong.

"Nothing. I am just thinking." I replied while staring out the window.

I was lost in thought all day after reading the article about the 11 year old girl who died. I wrote about it on my blog and went along with my day still keeping the article in my mind.

There is something that happens to me when I am in a car and I am not driving. I find that I become very reflective looking out the windows and seeing all the people driving by. I wonder what is going on in their lives. Are they in a happy place right now? What is their story? (READ MORE)