World Diabetes Day: A Blog Roundup

In honor of Word Diabetes Day I've decided to do a blog roundup of women blogging diabetes. Most are blogs by women who are living with diabetes, and others are women blogging about parenting a child with diabetes. I've also included several informative links and resources at the end of this post.

If you blog about living with diabetes or World Diabetes Day, please leave your link in comments.

World Diabetes Day...

Diabetes Education and Prevention is the World Diabetes Day theme for the period 2009-2013. The campaign calls on all those responsible for diabetes care to understand diabetes and take control. For people with diabetes, this is a message about empowerment through education. For governments, it is a call to implement effective strategies and policies for the prevention and management of diabetes to safeguard the health of their citizens with and at risk of diabetes. For healthcare professionals, it is a call to improve knowledge so that evidence-based recommendations are put into practice. For the general public, it is a call to understand the serious impact of diabetes and know, where possible, how to avoid or delay diabetes and its complications. The key messages of the campaign are:

Know the diabetes risks and know the warning signs
Know how to respond to diabetes and who to turn to
Know how to manage diabetes and take control

From Grace at Diabetes Daily...

I'm one of many brave young women living well with type 1 diabetes, just having marked 20 complication-free years...I went on a pump during college, and now sport a Minimed 522. There have been dark moments, but much light also. I'm a travel junkie, having traveled, worked, volunteered and studied abroad in over 25 countries. I'm a writer, teacher and poet living in Milwaukee, blessed and happy. And while I may have diabetes, diabetes will never have me. It has, however, gifted me with valuable qualities, beautiful friendships and community. Life is good.

From Lawyer Mama - Let's Talk About Diabetes...

I'm a diabetic. I allude to it frequently on this blog. But I never really talk about living with diabetes. Liz Henry has a wonderful post up at BlogHer about Invisible Illness Week, for people living with non-obvious disabilities or chronic illness. Liz's post made me realize that, while I mention my diabetes often, I never talk about how it's affected me. I guess it's time to change that.

The Butter Compartment - A Fraction of Happily Ever After...

Yesterday evening, I was in a pretty awful place with this whole how-diabetes-affects-my-family thing, which you likely surmised if you caught last night’s post. I’ll be the first to wax poetic about how diabetes is a “family disease”, but sharing the responsibility of it doesn’t necessarily make it less burdensome for all involved all the time. Sometimes it’s a relief to have someone with whom to share it. Sometimes it just seems to illuminate what a miserable disease it is to try and manage day in and day out for eternity.

For anyone who thought perhaps I’d gone cross-eyed, adding an extra zero to the amount of money that it will cost us to add me to Jason’s plan, that was the correct number. $1000 will be deducted from his paycheck every month. The hilarious thing is that he works for a home health care agency, one that sells the merits of taking care of people, but obviously doesn’t give a flying… uh, fig about the health of its employees and their families.

From Six Until Me - Pregnancy Progress...

I am now sporting my first baby bump, and it's becoming more and more pronounced every day. (Pronounced baaabeee buuuhmp.) Clothes don't fit, maternity jeans are necessary, and when I zip up my sweatshirt to head down to the gym, the zipper strains a bit over my belly.

But is it all baby? Or could it be some weight from treating all these lows?

From Trying To Be Human - Dblog Day 2009...

It is Dblog Day '09, and I am tired. Tired from being up all night treating stubborn lows, then the rebound high this morning that is still slowly floating down from the rafters. I am tired of Dex going off every ten minutes. Tired of pricking my fingers again and again, and taking shot after shot. Tired of looking at food like an adversary. Tired.

HealthCare Hacks - Apple Cider Vinegar and Diabetes...

In an article published in the journal, Diabetes Care, researchers found that apple cider vinegar was effective at tempering the rise in blood sugar after a high carbohydrate meal. In addition to the subjects who had fully diagnosed type-2 diabetes, the beneficial effects were seen in participants who had a pre-diabetic conditions (i.e., insulin resistance) as well as the control group.

From Diabetes Mine - Famous diabetes Friends on Heart Health (Vlogs)...

Ooh, lucky me. I ran into two of my diabetes heroes at the Diabetes Technology Society Meeting late last week. More soon on the new developments I heard about there. But for today, please enjoy these video testimonials on diabetes & heart health.

From Jill at Diabetes Sweeties...

This blog is for me to share my experiences as the mother parenting a daughter living with Type 1 diabetes and a teenager. Kacey was diagnosed with diabetes on July 15, 2008 at the age of 8. My other daughter, Kayleigh, has been tested for T1 and not showing any signs. I look forward to sharing my experiences and getting the support from others going through the same things.

Penny - My Son Has Diabetes...

I am a mom of 2 beautiful boys. They are 18 and 7. The 7 year old has diabetes. I talk about life in general, but mostly what life is like with diabetes in the mix.

Sara from Diabetes Daily...

After a series of misdiagnoses lasting over a year, I was finally diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in the spring of 2003 at the age of 22. I managed my diabetes with multiple daily injections (MDI) for about a year, and started wearing an insulin pump in January of 2004. Other than a maternal grandmother with Type 2 diabetes, I am the only known diabetic in my family.

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