Happy D-Blog Day, everyone!
I would be nowhere without the Diabetes OC. I am a librarian, so I know how to do research. I've read tons of books on diabetes, endocrinology textbooks, read studies and journal articles. I've been told (with a straight face, no less) that I have more training in it than some doctors. Yet something was missing, and I kept hearing false notes. At first, I didn't understand. This is what doctors read. Aren't they supposed to be the experts? Isn't this information supposed to be correct? Forget my own diabetes; what I learned didn't really fit with my experience having a close friend with Type 1.
Recently, someone asked me for a good book on LADA. And, well, there is no good book on LADA. There is no book on LADA. There are only a few books that even mention LADA. So where is the book? It's in our heads. It's in our experiences. We are the experts. I sure hope that the medical establishment catches up, but until then we are out there, sharing our experiences.
Without the experiences of other diabetics, I wouldn't really know anything about diabetes.
7 comments:
Happy d-blog day! Man, I have typed that phrase so many times tonight, and it still sounds odd.
Thank you for being a part of the community.
I really enjoy your pictures in 365 too!
Amen.
Happy Dblog Day!
btw, I proposed to write that book, but our publisher thought the audience would be too small to support it :(
That's why we have the OC.
Happy D-Blog day!
Sara - Thanks!
Amy - That's crazy, really? Aren't there supposed to be more people out there with LADA than Type 1?
Christine - Thanks!
happy d-blog day!
god bless the diabetes oc!
Lili, thank you for being there, and thank you for making me feel a teeny bit less strange with my ketone concerns.....
Happy d-blog day Lili. Thanks for sharing part of yourself with us!
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