Hey, everyone, welcome to the beginning of Diabetes Blog Week 2012 here on Diaturgy! Diabetes Blog Week is the brainchild of Karen Graffeo of BitterSweetDiabetes.com; she chooses a blog topic for each day of the week, and participants either follow these prompts or choose one of her Wild Card prompts if they're feeling more inspired by those than by the particular day's offering. This is the third annual DBW, but obviously it's the first one I've participated in, having only recently started this blog.
Today's topic is "Find A Friend" - connecting our readers to other D-bloggers who they may not know of or be reading. Most of the Dblogs I read are way more well-known than I am (I hope this week will help *me* find some new friends!), and I’m thrilled to have even gotten to meet various blogging superstars such as Diabetesaliciousness’ Kelly Kunik, and Six Until Me’s Kerri Sparling. I really enjoy a lot of blogs, but I’m not going to point anyone to the most well-known Dblogs out there. I do have two candidates for blogs you may not be reading, however.
Jamie (@InkStain_D on Twitter) who I have had the privilege to meet a few times at awesome DMeetups (along with her husband, the equally cool Larry @MainDog101), has both a personal blog at Flying Furballs and a weekly blog/Internet roundup at InkStain_D, both well worth your time. She’s as welcoming online as she is in person!
I’m also inspired by the blog of my friend Sarah, who I became closer to after her T1 diagnosis two years ago yesterday, which, as many do, hit completely out of the blue – no family history, mid-twenties onset. She has taken her diagnosis much better than I did (to be fair, I was 12); no denial, just using it as a positive, motivating force to know herself and her body better, and to push it to new (good) limits. Much of her blog has focused on her amazing achievement, running a marathon in Reykjavik to raise money and awareness about diabetes. She already understands that diabetes is a marathon, not a sprint, and blogs at diabetesmarathon.wordpress.com.
I'm excited about this week, and I hope we all find some new friends!
-Ilana
I'm chuckling that Sarah took her (more recent) diagnosis better than you did as a child because it sounds like the opposite of my experience with eyesight and glasses: my forty-something friends who have to get reading glasses acting like it's the END OF THE WORLD...while I raise my eyebrows at them from behind the glasses I've had since I was nine. Aw, you just now have to start wearing glasses SOMETIMES because there are a FEW things you can't see? Poor babies. ;) (Sorry, nothing to do with diabetes, actually; I just realize that comments are a nice way to know that people are actually reading...)
ReplyDeleteIt's true! Of course, it can play out the other way. A person who is significantly older than I am was recently diagnosed with Type 2; they said to me that they know they have to suck it up and not complain because they've seen me dealing with diabetes in a fairly quiet manner since I was a kid.
DeleteFriends are awesome - both old and new!
ReplyDeleteThanks k2 - they totally are! (And thanks for your comment on One Great Thing, too - made me smile!)
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