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YES. YOU. CAN.

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
~Allen H. Neuharth

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall
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Sometimes, diabetes or not, life gets us down and self doubt slowing tries to slowly creep around us and cover us tightly, like some sort of stifling cocoon that we must find a way to bust out of, ASAP.


We find ourselves second guessing decisions that we know to be right, which tends to make us stop in our tracks because we fear the possibility of both success and failure.


It’s a crappy feeling that no one in Diabetes Land or on planet Earth is immune to.


So, when you start feeling that way, it’s really important to tell yourself


that you can do & be anything!


And it's important to tell yourself that.....



And that YOU CAN INDEED "DO IT!"

Because it's true - even if you're not quite convinced.
And the more you actually say that you can do anything and that you are indeed fantastical, the more you'll actually believe it - And in yourself!

What Do You Want To Say To Them?

What Do You Want To Say To Them?
I have the opportunity to present With Cheryl Marco (Jefferson University CDE) in front of a large number of Diabetes Clinicians (Endocrinologists, CDEs, nurse Practitioners, nurses, & Nutritionists) on Friday and I'm very excited.

My role is to give them an honest PWDs (person/people with diabetes) patient point of view about life with diabetes & pump therapy. I'll also be discussing what I want and require from my healthcare professionals, and I will use THIS LETTER as my guide. Maybe I'll even quote "Love Amongst The Islets of Langerhans," who knows?

But bottom line, it's not about me, it's about US - As in every single person (t1, t2,t3) who's life is affected by diabetes. What do you want to say to them?

Interesting Signage

Thought provoking Signage in and around Philadelphia

So I'd just parked my car and was on my way to see a client when I came upon this signage @ 15 & Bainbridge.

Hmmmm, Interesting way to get your point across, thought I - and quick grabbed my iPhone & snapped a few picks.

I also wondered: Are people aware of what an A1c is and why it's so important??

But on the positive side, the term is out there for all to see - diabetic or not. And hopefully, they will go to their Dr. and seek the answer.

The NHS Debate

The NHS Debate
The NHS wobbles from crisis to crisis. The political debate at present focuses on the structure of the NHS, and the future involvement of private for-profit companies. What is not in doubt, we are told, is that reform of the NHS is a given - it has to happen.

The problem with the NHS debate, as usual, is that the on-going funding problems has to do with an important monopoly that is alive and well within the NHS. 

The monopoly of conventional medicine (ConMed). 

This blog focuses on the safety of medicine. But equally important is effectiveness, and cost. The NHS has put all its eggs (and £110 billion per year buys a lot of eggs) in one basket. And that basket is the least effective, least safe, and most expensive of all. So for over 60 years we have been investing in failure - the failure of conventional, drug-based medicine. The investment causes a triple whammy:

1. ConMed drugs, and related treatments, are the most expensive available.

2. ConMed drug treatment is ineffective; that is, it does not resolve illness; people take the drugs, don't get well, and are therefore forced to come back for more treatment.

3. Then there are DIEs, or disease-inducing-illness. The drug bonanza of the past 60 years has seen the enormous explosion of 'chronic' disease of all kinds - and it is not difficult to realise that ConMed drugs have played a big part in this when you examine the 'adverse reactions' they cause - which are all basically chronic diseases!

Until the NHS decides to offer patients other medical therapies, which are more effective, safer, and less expensive, the ongoing crisis of the NHS will stumble on. For a more detailed analysis of this argument, go to my e-book, The Failure of Conventional Medicine.