I’m late with today’s post, but it’s a good one. 🙂 This afternoon, Chris Snider of A Consequence of Hypoglycemia has contributed a guest post about Symplur and the Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign. It’s an in-depth look at how the stats of the #sparearose hashtag campaign influenced the spread of the message. This post is an interesting…
Guest Post: #SpareARose and Symplur.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Online Community, Guest Diabetes Blogger, Psychosocial Support, Real Life DiabetesSpare a Rose: 2015 Results.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, InsulinThis year, the total raised for IDF’s Life for a Child program through the Spare a Rose, Save a Child campaign was $24,229. We aimed to raise money and awareness for kids in developing countries who are without resources and insulin, and we raised money. And awareness. For the third year running, the diabetes community as a whole pledged their…
“Mom, what is that rose?” she asked as colored at the kitchen table. “It is part of a thing I’m working on that helps kids with diabetes who need insulin.” “You give them insulin?” “Kind of. These kids live in countries that are far from here, but they have diabetes like I do. And their fridge doesn’t have insulin in…
From February 1 – 14, the diabetes online community is hosting our annual Spare A Rose campaign. You remember that one, right? The one where you send eleven roses instead of twelve on Valentine’s Day, taking the value of that saved rose (averaged out to $5) and donating that to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child program, which…
Missing Meter.
Blood Sugars, Diabetes Advocacy, Healthcare, Psychosocial Support, Real Life Diabetes, Robot Life, TravelingThe initial search through my bag was kind of nonchalant. “Where is my meter bag?” Bright pink with a smiling bear on one side, it’s a hard bag to misplace, even in the seemingly unending abyss of my purse. But the flurry of leaving the house that morning to catch an early flight left me mentally snowed-in. I brought it…
“What do you want to do today, Mom?” Birdy asked. “I don’t know. What do you want to do?” Long pause. “Mom, I want to do a ton of many things!” A ton of many things. That makes more sense to me than I’d care to admit. That’s what’s going on in my head – a ton of so many…
Guest Post: No Child Should Die of Diabetes.
Diabetes Advocacy, Exercise & Fitness, Guest Diabetes BloggerVeerle Vanhuyse is off and running … literally. Verlee lives with type 1 diabetes and is running the NYC Marathon in a few weeks, aiming to raise awareness and funds for the IDF’s Life for a Child program. Today, I’m proud to be hosting a post from Veerle about her marathon goals! * * * A quarter of a century…
Chris always sums up Spare a Rose in the same way: “It’s so simple. So sticky. And so important.” Because it is. February is fast-approaching (Don’t act like you don’t know – it’s October today! Time refuses to stand still.) and now is the time to start thinking about how you and your company can participate in the Spare a…
In the last ten years, the DOC has evolved from a small pocket of voices to an entire choir that can’t be housed in one town, or state, or even country. I love seeing more hands raised and more people saying, “Me, too!” and providing support and understanding for one another. Patient stories matter. Our stories matter. The DOC is…
D-Blog Week: Change One Life, Change the World.
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes and Emotions, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial Support, Real Life DiabetesMy reasons for sharing my story of a life with type 1 diabetes were few, but definitive: I felt alone. I wanted to feel less alone, because the whole “feeling alone” thing was wrecking some havoc on my emotional health. I didn’t have many peers, in my life, who were living with diabetes, and the Internet offered very little in…
What’s Your Itch?
Diabetes Advocacy, Diabetes Community, Diabetes Online Community, Psychosocial SupportMy “diabetes advocacy itch” has always been emotional health. I’m not a doctor and I don’t know everything about type 1 diabetes, but I do know that I pay more attention to my diabetes when my head is in a healthy space, and being tuned in to diabetes improves outcomes, for me. Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, upset … any kind of…