Tag: Diabetes Online Community

  • Overheard and Outraged!

    The Setting: Out having dinner with my boyfriend, I hear the familiar beep of the Optimum Exceed meter going off at the table next to us. I took a sneaky sideways peak to see a fellow diabetic testing his BGLs. The excited diabetic in me squealed in delight to see…

  • Be the change you want to see.

    Last night marked 2013’s first #OzDOC tweetchat. The topic up for discussion was ‘Diabetes New Years Resolutions’. Personally, I’ve never made any New Years resolutions. Partially because I believe that, like promises, they are made to be broken. We are so accustomed to hearing or joking about how easily they…

  • Australia’s first diabetes social media summit!

    In the three years of my diabetes diagnosis, I have to admit that this was my first time participating in World Diabetes Day (WDD) celebrations. In fact it wasn’t until last year that I realised November 14th is World Diabetes Day. If every WDD celebration was like the one just…