Hero worship

I Run On Insulin turns 1!

It’s been almost one year to the day since I first started this blog, and I am amazed at how quickly it’s flown by. Just one year ago, the light bulb went off in my head with the idea that I wanted to be part of the amazing online community that has been there for [...]

Inspiration Station

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of seeing the documentary “The Science of Inspiration,” about people with diabetes training for the ultimate test of physical fitness: a full triathlon. For anyone that doesn’t know, a true triathlon is a 2.4 mile swim, followed by 112 mile bike ride, topped off with a full marathon (that [...]

The Friday Rundown: Candy is dandy, Haircut and Health Screen, and another test-in!

Happy Friday everyone! We made it! With Halloween already tomorrow (where did the month go?), I know there’s been tons of candy around these days. Seems like it keeps popping up at my office, my house – shoot, even my dry cleaner has  big bowl out in honor of the holiday. There’s tons of candy [...]

The Cool Kids

On Friday afternoon, I had the privilege of attending the American Diabetes Association’s Camp Wana Cura in Santee Lakes.  Camp Wana Cura is a day camp for children with diabetes here in San Diego . They do all the fun camp stuff like arts and crafts, hiking, and paddle-boating, but they do it with glucose [...]

Charlie, my hero.

Blogabetes is an online blogging community hosted by the dLife website that publishes posts from the some of the best Diabloggers on the ‘net. Carey Potash has chronicled his life as a parent to his Type 1 son, Charlie.  The following is a post written by Charlie, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes just [...]

Nick Jonas continues to be a ‘betes SupaStar

Nick Jonas has proved himself to be a true diabetes champion yet again with his recent dLife interview that aired this past Sunday. It is amazing that at such a young age and such a short time with diabetes (he was only diagnosed in 2005!), Nick has already taken on the burden of being a diabetes [...]

This kid is my hero.