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A Pound of Positive Reinforcement, Please

The Butter Compartment

I saw the nephrologist yesterday for my bi-annual check-up. I get nervous every time I see her, always wondering if this is going to be the time my kidneys have started to crash. Because I already took a spin with retinopathy 11 years ago, seeing the op

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One Sleepless Night; One Disease, For Now…

Diabetes Mine

I had planned to write about something entirely different today. But then I got the scariest phone call of my life on Monday, and was up all night obsessing about the ramifications. It was the Breast Center. They wanted me to come back in for “additional

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Feb 10, All In Favor of Atkins

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

I tried for a long time to do the low calories and fat diets. I also worked out an hour a day on a walking machine and only lost a couple of pounds a

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Pharma Companies & Social Media: How and When?

Diabetes Mine

I don’t know if all you fellow patients realize this, but the big companies that make the medicines and devices we rely on (those giant Pharmas that we love to hate) are struggling something fierce to come to terms with Social Media.  By that I mean they

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Feb 6, Heart Disease and ACE Inhibitor

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

by verlyn This article is written to discuss heart disease and ACE inhibitors, what they are and their impact on you as a heart patient. There are

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Feb 6, Lost all desire

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

I have T2 diabetes. I take a list long of meds. I am still young and so is my husband. I used to love to be touched and to touch. But for the last

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Jan 27, Fact Sheet-Diabetes Insipidus

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

Fact sheet- diabetes insipidus by Groshan Fabiola Diabetes insipidus is the type of diabetes characterized by your body� s inability to

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Jan 15, Breads and How They Are a Benefit to Diabetes

Diabetes and Related Health Issues

This article talks about breads and how they help your diabetes health.

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Joslin Receives $1 Million Grant for Type 1 Diabetes Research

Diabetes Mine

Finally, a press release that is unquestionably post-worthy: on Friday, the legendary Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston announced that it’s received a million-dollar grant to support type 1 diabetes research. The money comes from a wealthy patient with his

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sometimes it takes a helping hand.

Aiming For Grace

So much of growth comes from the little things adding up to new behaviors or outcome. Last night just a moment occurred for me. Nothing huge in it's own right but on balance, a pretty big shift in the scheme...

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