Make plans to attend CWD's Focus on Technology: Chicago 2009 conference, to be held at the Renaissance Chicago North Shore Hotel in Chicago, Illinois from April 24-26, 2009.
Make plans to attend CWD's Friends for Life: Orlando 2009 conference, to be held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida from July 7-12, 2009.
Make plans to attend CWD's Friends for Life UK, to be held at the Beaumont House, Old Windsor, Berkshire from August 14-16, 2009.
The Triabuddies program will bring fifteen kids with type 1 diabetes, ages 9-12, to travel to the American Southwest in November 2009 to cross the finish line of the Arizona Ironman with an athlete living with type1 diabetes.
Last week's poll asked readers if they experience discrimination from friends or family members because of diabetes. This week's poll asks readers how many basal rates are in their main basal rate profile.
The Featured Book of the Week is Pumping Insulin, Fourth Edition by John Walsh, P.A., C.D.E., and Ruth Roberts, M.A.
This week's Humorous Tidbit is:
My 6-year-old diabetic granddaughter (Ashley) was explaining to her 4-yr old sister what it was like learning to read. What she meant to say was "First you start with basic reading." What she actually said was, "First you start with basal reading."
You know you're the parent of a child with diabetes when your child is playing a video game and when the "life force" level starts running out she says "Oh no! I'm low" and then starts laughing hysterically and says "I need glucose tablets!" See more parent humor.
Featured Diabetes Team Question of the Week
The Featured Ask the Diabetes Team Question of the Week is:
Having taught her that fruit is a healthy food, my daughter wants fruit as her snacks, but it makes her blood sugar high. Is there something else I could give her? She will not eat vegetables. See the answer.
The American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Care Tasks at School: What Key Personnel Need to Know is a two-part training curriculum that consists of a CD containing thirteen PowerPoint modules and a DVD containing corresponding video segments. ADA's 2-disk set is designed to be used by a school nurse or diabetes health care professional to train non-medical school personnel in the performance of diabetes care tasks. This new school resource is now available at the ADA's online store at http://store.diabetes.org (item no. 3093-09) for a minimum shipping and handling charge. The PowerPoint training modules are available for freely downloading from www.diabetes.org/schooltraining.
From the Diabetes Blogosphere
Diabetes Back in the Day offers a poignant look at diabetes from the eyes of a younger Kerri Morrone Sparling.
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