CWD News
Diabetes Chill Mode — the iLet
In my lifetime, there have been so many incredible advances when it comes to tools for keeping blood sugars in “target” as much as possible. I am so grateful for all these things – from rapid-acting insulins to CGMs (continuous glucose monitors), life with diabetes can be so much easier. But the thing is, even […]
Friends for Life Orlando 2023 Recap
Friends for Life Orlando 2023 was truly out of this world! Children with Diabetes welcomed over 1,800 people to the hallways of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort for a week of friendship, education, and fun at our annual conference that focuses on providing care for those living with type 1 diabetes. From our bustling exhibit hall […]
ADA’s 83rd Scientific Sessions + Children with Diabetes = Where Diabetes Science and Hearts Collide
Two weeks ago several members of the Children with Diabetes team visited San Diego, California, to attend the 83rd annual American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions conference. As a first-timer, I wasn’t sure what to expect but knew that primary audience for the conference was healthcare providers and that the topics would be mostly about scientific […]
Keeping up with Diabetes Appointments
Keeping up with Diabetes Appointments There are a lot of different appointments when it comes to diabetes. There are the obvious ones, but then there are some that tend to get put on the back burner. Here’s the rundown on what is recommended for PWD (people with diabetes). Prescribing Provider Ideally, PWD have access to […]
Why Everyone Wants a GLP1
Everyone is trying to get their hands on the fancy new weight loss drugs – which happen to be medications designed for people with diabetes. More specifically, they were originally designed for people with non-insulin dependent diabetes. However, there are some definite benefits for those of us who are insulin dependent as well. Here’s what […]
Barriers to Screening in Type 1 Diabetes
Barriers to Screening in Type 1 Diabetes Anita Swamy1, Marissa Town2, William H Polonsky3,4 1 Chicago Children’s Diabetes Center at La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; 2 Children With Diabetes, West Chester, Ohio; 3 Behavioral Diabetes Institute, San Diego, California; 4 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California Abstract Since the consensus in opinion […]
Caregiver Fatigue: When Diabetes feels like a Boa Constrictor
As the month of May comes to a close, I find myself reflective upon the fact that May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Yet, in the diabetes world, we don’t talk much about mental health, do we? Most of our diabetes chit-chat is about pumps or syringes and different types of insulin. We babble on […]
Why Attend Friends for Life
Friends for Life is an experience that can be difficult to describe; the closest that I can come up with is “diabetes camp on steroids,” but it doesn’t truly capture all the magic that happens every summer during Friends for Life Orlando. When Friends for Life started, the idea was for families to come together […]
Stress and BG’s
The amount of stress that we have undergone as humans in the last few years has been ridiculous. This is certainly not how I imagined I would be spending my adult life. It feels like every chance we get to come up for a breath after drowning in major horrible world event after major horrible […]
A Diabetes Mom with a Thousand Hugs
Diabetes moms—we are like regular moms, but we are different. Watching your child receive a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes elevates you to a whole new level of motherhood and I’m almost certain that this chapter…the one about diabetes…was left out of all of the manuals that I read when I was preparing to become […]
