People who do not have diabetes, work in the medical or research side of diabetes or simply those uneducated or inexperienced with diabetes may more often than not underestimate the seriousness of the illness and how it can both be influenced by and influence people who are diabetic. When I discuss my research with some of colleagues not familiar with the diabetes in detail, or with anybody unfamiliar with diabetes for that matter, I tend to get a the same response such as “w

In this blog I hope to continue a recent discussion I started on Twitter recently rather than report on a current topic or provide opinion on a new diabetes topic. For those of you who don’t follow my Twitter discussions, a recent discussion that really opened my eyes to peoples challenges, struggles and sometimes. In actuality people make mistakes, they forget certain things with their insulin or on occasion have no choice financially but to use what they have regardless if