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When you spot another person with diabetes, do you feel compelled to acknowledge them?
Yes! I'd invent a secret handshake if I could!
 
I do, but the possible reaction stops me.
 
No, but I wouldn't mind someone coming up to me.
 
No. This disease is too private to bring up with/in front of strangers.
 
Why say anything at all?
 

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by Wil Dubois
This morning it wasn’t the sun, the wind, or the birds that woke me up. It was the soft, insistent vibrating of a medical device urging me to check my blood sugar. Opening my eyes, still safely under the covers, I checked my blood sugar with a meter smaller than a deck of cards, calibrated my continuous glucose monitor, and then glanced at my insulin pump — which reminded me that today was the day I needed to change my infusion set. My dLife is pretty high tech. And I’m...