The High Costs of Diabetes Kills: RIP, Shane Patrick Boyle

Shane Patrick Boyle has been on my mind and in my heart since last Thursday.  I've reached out to Shane's cousin on Facebook, but ha...

PLEASE Talk With Your Children About The Choking Game

This post has nothing to do with diabetes. This post is about an 11 year old boy named Garrett Pope Jr. -  Garrett was my cousin’s grandson ...

Novo Nordisk, AskScreenKnow®, Rev Run, T2 Diabetes & The "Am I At Risk?" Campaign

Diabetes, "it's tricky," no matter the type. Today I'm writing about t2 risk assessment because as a person with t1, I hav...

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...

Muesday Updates

This post was dictated and then emailed to me, by me, and via my iPhone's dictation feature.  FTR: This is my first post that was entire...

Thanks DOC, The 2nd #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes Day Was A SuccessBecause of YOU.

The 2nd annual #IwishPeopleKnewThatDiabetes Day on Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere was a success and I’m so grateful and happy.  Hone...

Things Have To Change: The High Cost Of Insulin & Other Drugs - It's Not Only An Eli Lilly Issue - It's A Pharma Issue.

This post was supposed to go up late last week, but between life and real people  sick hitting hard towards the end of the week, it didn...