WHAT I TEXT MESSAGED MY MOM I had just started writing my Devotions on Diabetes book when I text messaged my mom with a question to get her perspective. I had heard it was common for parents to look for the root cause of their child’s diabetes, which seems a...
BY BRANDY DAVENPORT, CO-BLOGGER Setting agendas, scheduling appointments, making phone calls, doing work, washing laundry, packing for a trip, unpacking from a trip, prepping grocery lists, cooking meals, cleaning the house, bathing the dogs, bathing the kids, putting...
Today starts a series of Q&A blog posts in which I will be interviewing various people about their experience with diabetes. This first post comes from a fellow type 1 diabetes warrior, wife, and mom who has lived with T1D for almost four decades – Melissa...
I was so captivated by the story of suffering I was reading on my phone in the kitchen a few weeks ago that I nearly burnt my children’s grilled cheese sandwiches. This was unlike any story I had ever read before. It was actually hard to read. But the more I read, the...
BY CARRIE CRABB, GUEST BLOGGER Having a chronic illness is a journey no one enjoys taking. It’s a path of suffering. My personal path has primarily been one of ongoing pain and medical issues over the years. As I am writing this, I have a broken bone that hasn’t...
