Living and Coping with Diabetes

Foot pain affects many diabetics…
We received a tweet from someone who wanted to recommend a brand of diabetic socks and foot wear that was very helpful in alleviating foot pain for his dad. We have not tried this brand personally… however, we wanted to share this information with you all in case someone may find [...]

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On Yesterday @DiabetesSupport asked everyone to tweet about about a time when they discovered that their blood sugar levels hand gone unusually low. We did this to bring an awareness to some of the common experiences that we as people with diabetes share with one another. Well, needless to say there was quite an array [...]

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In a recent twitter post I tweeted about the affordability of testing supplies. We were surprised to find that while some diabetics are very concious about testing and monitoring their blood sugar levels they aren’t able to. If that weren’t surprising enough, the reasons for not being able to test and monitor were even more suprising.
Some expressed that their ability to test was limited; [...]

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One article from an ADA (American Diabetes Association) representative stated that an estimated 10 percent of the U.S. American population has Diabetes. Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes has skyrocketed a whopping 61 percent since the early part of the 1990’s. To compound matters, more people have died from complications of the disease than from both aids and breast cancer… combined!!??
On a [...]

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