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		<title>The Name Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an online petition going around advocating for changing the names of type 1 and type 2 to something that is less generic. In the past, I think I might have supported this initiative. I can appreciate the argument that has been outlined by its creators, a couple of moms of kids with type 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ounce of Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, sponsored by National Eating Disorders Association.  Diabetes Advocates, of which I am a member, has partnered with NEDA this year to raise awareness, educate people, and support those in the diabetes community struggling with eating disorders and disturbed eating behaviors.  The theme for NEDAwareness Week is Everybody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Type 1 Diabetes + Food &amp; Body Issues + Social Media + Creativity = VIAL Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m 18 months into my doctoral program, and so far so good.  It still feels like an eternity until I&#8217;ll be done&#8230; hoping for 2015, but more likely, I&#8217;m guessing 2016.  Either way, I&#8217;m trying to not focus too much on when I&#8217;ll be done with the program, and looking more short-term at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking to No One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep thinking about my father&#8217;s suicide, partly because of Christmas.  I spent Christmas with him when I was a kid during my elementary school years and into my early adolescence.  I have good memories of Christmas with him.  Although now that I’m almost 40, he’s dead, and I’ve had a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diabetes Art Day 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the 3rd annual Diabetes Art Day!  When I started Diabetes Art Day, I didn&#8217;t expect people to be as receptive as they have been.  I figured it would be a one-time event, and crossed my fingers that a few people would participate.  Here we are two years later, and it&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Invitation&#8230; to Change the Diabetes World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, the diabetes world has been challenged to agree on a color/symbol.  Are we represented by a blue ribbon or a blue circle?  Are we represented by a gray or silver ribbon with a red dot or a red drop of blood?  Are we represented by red because it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Diabetes Day Postcard Exchange, Bigger and Better with Your Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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World Diabetes Day Postcard Exchange from Diabetes Hands Foundation on Vimeo.

Last October, I created the World Diabetes Day Postcard Exchange hoping for maybe 100 or 150 participants.  There wasn&#8217;t anything too fancy about it.  People found out thanks to the magic of social media, and emailed their name, address, and details they wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What They Don&#8217;t Want to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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Today&#8217;s D-Blog Week Topic is What They Should Know: Today let’s borrow a topic from a #dsma chat held last September.  The tweet asked “What is one thing you would tell someone that doesn’t have diabetes about living with diabetes?”.  Let’s do a little advocating and post what we wish people knew about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Creative to &#8220;Find a Friend&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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The first time I signed up for a blogging event, one that stipulated I blog every day for a month, I succeeded.  Since then though, every time I sign up for any sort of blog-everyday-for-however-long event, things unravel quickly.   Most recently, and most lamely, I signed up for WEGO Health Activist Writer’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the Window Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Mother’s Day.  Mother’s Day used to be all about celebrating my mom, and I never conceived of it as anything else.  I can’t say when it occurred to me that it was something more than that.  My evolving conception of it has been a few years in the making.  As [...]]]></description>
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