Fearlessly Fighting T1D

  I remember the day I was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes (T1D) like it was yesterday. It was the summer of 1984, I was 7 years old and just fin...

A Long, LONG, time ago I was diagnosed with T1D at the age of 7. It was 1984, and quite frankly the way to treat the condition was at the breaking ...

Wow, what a year it has been! Let’s be honest 2020 has not been easy to say the least!  COVID has left me out of my groove, indoors too much and aw...

The premise of Wine About Diabetes is to connect, learn, grow and feed our souls until there is a cure.  Connecting with my fellow T1D counterparts is refreshing for my soul and I hope for theirs as well.  I hope that by spreading the message about T1D and my 36 years experience will help others navigate the waters of living with this chronic condition as well.  We can do this alone, but why, when you can "Wine" with your T1D Friends!

Look how far we’ve come!-Just found my old diabetic testing supplies circa 1984-???. -The test tube with the dark brown glass bottle was My first t...

Mental Health and diabetes.⠀.⠀It’s hard to explain to someone who does not have T1D how all encompassing this condition can be. The countless daily...

This one is hard to write… Or maybe more hard to admit. This was my Saturday/Sunday morning. ⠀.⠀Saturday evening we went out with friends to the De...

I’m most definitely not perfect, but there is no such thing as perfection with diabetes! What I can say is I’m making progress by committing to mys...

I would dare to say most people who are diagnosed with T1D leave the doctor office, or hospital, in a state of shock, overwhelmed and unprepared. I...

Have you ever felt like you had a calling?  Something deep inside of you, poking at you, always there, always on your mind.  Having been diagnosed...