(in homeage to the Toni Braxton’s Un-break My Heart, and if Melissa Lee would just let loose with her version of this, that would be awesome.) Un-Break My Panc You left me when I was small Didn’t make insulin at all Come back and bring back my islets Come and take these syringes away. I need panc to work beta…
Guest Post: A Note to My Newly-Diagnosed Self
Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Online Community, Guest Diabetes Blogger, Real Life DiabetesToday, thanks to a very generous reader named Cathy Fisher, I’m able to host a guest post about being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as an adult in the form of a letter from Cathy, to her newly-diagnosed self. Cathy was diagnosed November of 2003 at age 18, in her first semester of college. At the time, she was the first diabetic she knew. She…
Michael Park is a composer whose work bridges the gap between real-world and musical experience. His Ted Talk, Experiencing Disease Through Music, has been described as moving, haunting, and an amazing translation of the disease. His opera, Diagnosis: Diabetes has received awards and high praise for turning an otherwise invisible illness into something the audience gets to experience. And I’m…
Birdy has this “learn about how electrical circuits work!” toy, and she plays with it endlessly. I thought we had built every plan in the book that came with the game until she busted out this page yesterday: And once we built it, I realized we had recreated the “pee alarm” that my parents used when I was very young,…