October’s Best of the ‘Betes Blogs

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1. Secret Teacher: why can’t I tell pupils about my eating disorder? I see students limiting their lunches and worrying about their weight. I want to tell then I’ve survived the bully in my head but I’m worried it’ll mark me out as vulnerableMore from the Secret TeacherI can still remember a time when I wasn’t obsessed with every single thing I ate. I would tuck into pizza without feeling guilty, or go out for dinner with my boyfriend and eat what I fancied – not what had the lowest calories.At university my issues with food became an obsession. Surrounded by girls I thought were thinner, prettier and cleverer than me, I...
2. Introducing "TuAnalyze": Why Mapping Diabetes Data Matters I've been as vocal as anyone complaining about the lack of solid diabetes data reporting in this country, and how that hampers our cause on many levels. Now D-community leader Manny Hernandez and his wonderful crew at the non-profit Diabetes Hand... ...
3. Ask D’Mine: A Cry For Help (or Two or Three)… Part 2 Last week in our diabetes advice column Ask D'Mine, we tackled a couple of complex questions from pre-diabetic multiple amputee Cassi, who was having trouble getting blood samples for testing, confused about the results, and terrified about the fu... ...
4. Small But Mighty: Hanky Pancreas Aims to "Transform" Pumpers’ Style Next up in our series on "mom-and-pop" diabetes shops is Jessica Floeh, who knows a thing or two about good design. As a type 1 diabetic and a student at Parsons The New School of Design, Jessica is mixing her love of design with her personal conn... ...
5. Small But Mighty: D-Mom Creates Medical IDs Kids Like to Wear When you live day-in and day-out with diabetes, you often find clever, MacGyver-like workarounds to everyday problems -- like using toupee glue to keep a CGM sensor stuck on your arm. Or using a pump reservoir as an insulin source to siphon the st... ...