Blog Team Members Wanted

I am currently seeking team members to assist in providing various diabetes related postings. If you are interested in becoming a Juvenile-Diabetes-Stories blog team member please send me an email with your valid email address (one that you use often), your first name, and a short intro of your diabetic story. Requirements for being a team member are, you must either be a diabetic(preferably type 1) or you must provide care to a type 1 diabetic or juvenile diabetic. You must also have at least some knowledge of diabetes. If you or your child was newly diagnosed, that is fine also.

Once you email me your info along with your eligible requirements, I will send you an email of your acceptance. Thereafter, you can log-in as a team member and submit diabetes post entries as you wish. They may consist of, but not limited to, anything diabetes related, for example, feedback or review of diabetes testing supplies & equipment, insulin pumps, diabetes questions(simple or advanced), topics, stories, tips, and inspirational notes. All info that you share with me will remain confidential and will only be used so that I may recognize you as someone who is, or was touched by juvenile/type 1 diabetes. I also need your email info so that I may extend you access rights as an author of our community blog.

Thanks for your interest in joining my juvenile diabetes blog team. I look forward to everyone becoming a very close-knit community.....team members and non-team members, where we can help and offer the much needed support to everyone and each other facing this disease of many faces and complications.....so that we all may be stronger, healthier, and live happier lives as a diabetic, or as a family of a diabetic.Knowledge is power, and I hope to become a wealth of diabetes information for all of our visitors, and one of the most popular juvenile diabetes blogs on the web.

I also want to thank all of my visitors for being patient while I am tweaking the blog, and making adjustments and interactive additions to it. If you are not interested in becoming a team member, feel free to read posts and submit comments. Comments are what makes the blog "spin". : )

And don't forget about the embedded chat room at the bottom of the blog page where everyone including team members may edit their chat room name and chat with all visitors and members on the site.

Have a Wonderful week

Bryan - Author
diabetes-blog(at)santabuddy(dot)com
Please send me your email address that is active and often used, your first name only, and a short bio/story on how diabetes affects you and/or your family. The email address you supply will be your login to author your posts.

2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes

Attend the 2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes Team Captain Kick Off Luncheon on July 31, 2007 at The Buckeye Hall of Fame Cafe from 11:30am-1:00pm at 1421 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212. Call 614-464-2873 to RSVP or email midohio@jdrf.org .

The 2007 Walk to Cure Diabetes is coming up on September 30 at The Ohio State University. Check in time is 9:00am and the event will kick-off at 10:30am, rain or shine.

The 5th edition of JDRF’s Promise to Remember Me Campaign will start on August 1.

What is Promise? Promise is a campaign to schedule local meetings between JDRF advocates and their Members of Congress.

Why participate? JDRF has been cited as one of the most effective advocacy organizations in Washington, and that is a direct result of the relationships our thousands of advocates around the country have developed with their Members.

What’s at stake? $1 Billion in type 1 research funding over the next 5 years from the federal government. Our advocates will be asking legislators to support this expansion of type 1 research this year. Since the stakes are so high, we’re aiming to conduct the largest number of meetings in the history of the Promise Campaign: 400.

We need your help! To reach our goal, we need you to participate in a meeting with your Members of Congress in your local community. Send an email to advocacy@jdrf.org to register to attend a meeting. A campaign coordinator in your area will contact you! Thanks!

Amber Alert - Ohio

I posted an Amber Alert ticker on my blog, unfortunately right in time to notice that an alert has been posted for my home state of Ohio. Please click on the ticker on the top-right of my blog for the details of this alert. Any parent who has had a missing child truly has my deepest sympathies as this is the worst thing that you could possibly imagine happening to a parent. It is simply impossible for everyone to help in the search of a missing child, so please help do our ethical part by checking the ticker. It may seem impossible that you know the missing child, but that is how most children are found...through unrelated leads. It only takes a minute...and you could help save the life of a child, and the sanity of a parent or guardian.

Interesting Post

I read an interesting post on diabetesselfmanagement.com that is not related specifically to only juvenile diabetes, but to all types. It is a good article on support, depression, and some aggravations of having the disease.

Blog Chat

Good afternoon bloggies,
Since this is a brand new juvenile diabetes blog, I am still adding additional functions to it. The newest addition is a Juvenile Diabetes chat/discussion room (aka discussion window) for any visitor to my blog page or anyone on the Meebo network who searches for diabetes related chat rooms. You may find it at the bottom of this page. Feel free to copy or embed the chat room code (embed button is located on the chat window) to your own page or blog if you prefer. I hope that, with help of my blog guests, my blog will someday become one of the most popular juvenile diabetes blogs out there. Please be patient while I add additional functionality, while regularly adding content. As promised, my diabetes story is coming soon.

--Bryan out

Welcome Mat

Welcome & thanks for stopping by my blog where both you and I can learn and teach, & teach and learn everything we possibly can about juvenile diabetes...a disease of many complications.

You have just crossed the welcome mat into a domain where the more we all think we understand about diabetes, the more confused we may become. That is where the great web of ours connects so many great people, some providing information and comfort, and some desperately looking for it. That is what this blog is for....for the many parents who are lost without the ever-so-generous people who share their experience & knowledge of this devastatingly silent disease. I hope everyone who frequents my blog will either feel better knowing they have learned something valuable, shared a common experience, offered their advice or opinion, or just simply listened to someone who needs to be assured, informed, or just needs heart warming words or a helping hand.

Caring for a child with juvenile diabetes (or anyone with diabetes for that matter) can be very challenging in many aspects. It seems simple, but can be very complicated. Diabetes is a slow, and silent disease that cannot be underestimated or ignored in any way, especially during childhood. When everything seems to be under tight control, it can become unmanageable in a hurry. The fact that you are dealing with a child with sporatic eating habits and activity levels makes it even more challenging. That is the very thing that makes juvenile diabetes so difficult to manage. Children with juvenile diabetes have mood swings, their parents go through periods of depression, feelings of guilt, helplessness, and sadness. Children and adults alike can live a healthy, happy, and productive lives with diabetes just as could a perfectly healthy person.

Being a parent of a child with juvenile diabetes for 5 1/2 years, I have been through a good majority of the ups & downs, and I'm sure it will run it's course over and over again. I do not imply that I know everything about diabetes...I still have plenty of learning to do. Sometimes it feels like we have a good handle on things and understand what's going on...until things get so bad, we try to figure out what went wrong, it gets pretty darned complicated and confusing, not only for the newly diagnosed child, but even for children and adults who have had diabetes for many years.

I hope to bring some issues regarding juvenile diabetes front and center, not only to help myself, but to shed some light on common and uncommon things that parents have experienced, good and bad, so that everyone, myself included, can have a better understanding of this dreadful disease, and the impact it has on your child and family as a whole. Having diabetes is by no means easy, but can be so much easier with some work, dedication, and sharing info with others.

Bring your ideas and comments forward so we can address them. We are all in this together. Please email me with your life stories and I will post them, or you may comment about mine or others. No passwords or moderating here...just honest help from honest people.

Stay tuned for frequent updates to this blog, and for my diabetes story, coming soon.

Thanks for reading, and have a healthy day........

--- Bryan (author)

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