American Girl Diabetes Care Kit Review & Giveaway

Very cool and incredibly detailed, American Girl  Diabetes Care Kit ~ Two years ago, the then 11 year old Anje Busse created a Change.Org p...

The Daraprim Effect

I write about living with diabetes, I A dvocate for people living with diabetes, and it's incredibly important to me that patients not o...

World Diabetes Day 2016

I apologize for the radio silence this past week - there was some stuff going on in my country, the United States - I’ll leave it at that.  ...

94 Years Ago Today, Insulin Was Discovered - Thanks Doctor Banting & Charles Best!

94 years ago today, insulin was discovered by Dr. Frederick Banting & his assistant Charles Best and a few months later joined by Profe...

I Heard Back From UnitedHealthcare - Not Impressed.

Yesterday I wrote a Facebook status which with some alterations and additions, morphed into today’s blog post - because #diabetesaccessmatt...

Interesting Links On The Interwebz - Some Diabetes Related, Some Not

Sharing some interesting links on the interwebz, some D related, some not.   Shoutout to the Chicago Tribune for recently publishing the art...

Diabetes Makes Me Do That Thing Where I'm Always Checking

So..... checking as it relates to diabetes - does it drive you batty and please tell me I'm not the only one! Do you have any tips?  If ...

I'M ANGRY

On Wednesday night I came home late and to the news that Lilly had announced price increases for a multitude of drugs, including insulin (7....