I want to thank First Lady Michelle Obama for her efforts to get American families moving. The First Lady recently launched the Let’s Move campaign to address the alarming rates of childhood obesity in this country. Imagine for a minute that this generation of young people could be the first to have a [...]
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Okay, so I made a rookie mistake. I am still new to Twitter and in my haste to live up to the promise of twitter by tweeting when something time sensitive is taking place, I hastily tweeted the following statement: Toasting Oprah for dedicating yesterday’s show to the topic of diabetes. Thank you, Oprah! Unfortunately, I tweeted [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
It is time to replenish Elle’s diabetes supplies. We are down to one vial of insulin, two boxes of pump sites and we just refilled her prescription for test strips. The battery on her pump died tonight too and it continued to beep until we finally found a replacement battery in the basement. I could [...]
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
As the holiday season draws to a close and we all move abruptly into the new decade, I find myself feeling particularly grateful for an unlikely and unexpected gift my family recently received. At the end of 2009, my mother in her role as New Hampshire’s Junior United States Senator, passed a resolution in support of Diabetes Awareness Month.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
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