We are counting the years (yes, years) until Q gets to go to diabetes summer camp. Our local camp starts at 8 and with a late summer birthday she probably won’t make the cutoff that summer.

Have you seen the D-Mom Blog list of diabetes camps? It’s quite extensive and even includes camps in Canada in addition to those in the states.

Here are a few blog posts about children with diabetes who experienced camp this summer:

Stacey of Stacey Simms Blog: D-Camp (Camp KUDOS)

Megann of My Life with Diabetes: Diabetes Camp 2010 (Humphreys Diabetes Center Sweet Kids Day Camp)

Valerie of vmjess: Camp

Colleen Strauch of My Sweet Life: Why should you care about diabetes camp? (Harrisburg Diabetic Youth Camp)

Penny of A Sweet Grace: Camp Pros (and oh yeah, cons too) and Diabetes Camp and Diabetes Camp SWAG and The Return of Grace and Interview with a D-Camper

htimm=) of A Work in Progress: Camp and Camp Photos (Gales Creek Camp)

Jennifer of Diabetes and Then Some: Diabetes Camp: In the Majority But Not

Melancholywings of T1D Jilly Bean: Yay for Camp Stealth!!

Julie of Pump Wear: The Camping Experience (Circle of Life Camp)

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School days, school days, dear old golden rule days. Here are some posts about heading back to school with diabetes:

Leighann of D-Mom Blog: Back to School: 504 Plan (Read what we have included in our plan.)

Stacey of Stacey Simms Blog: Back to School (The last line is so true!)

Kelly of Chasing Numbers: Reminder. Back to school with D

Reyna of Beta Buddies: THE LOWDOWN ON LOCKDOWNs (I’m adding a photo to our instruction sheet this year.) and HEEELLLLLLOOOO N.U.R.S.E.!!!

Renata Porter of The Diabetic Duo: 504 Plan on Steroids

Wendy of Candy Hearts: School School Everywhere!

Have you written a back to school post not listed here? Please let me know!

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Here are some of my favorite posts I have read recently:

Tom Karlya of dLife: Some Thoughts (Made me cry. Make sure to click on “a few more thoughts” at the bottom.)

Kerri Sparling of Six Until Me: BSparl and Her Mommy in Diabetes Forecast (Kerri is featured in ADA’s magazine about Type 1 women and pregnancy.)

Also by Kerri Sparling of Six Until Me: We. Are. KETONES! (You have to see the photo.)

Marie of Makes and Takes: Crafty Ninjas (Nothing to do with diabetes, but this reminded me of George the Ninjabetic.)

Bennet Dunlap of Your Diabetes May Vary: WaveSense App Demo (I’m so interested in the cable that will connect the WaveSense Jazz meter to an iPhone.)

Hallie of BitterSweet: The Green Eyed Monster (Yup. I’ve caught myself being a little green, too.)

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Here are some recent news stories, press releases, and product announcements of note:

Los Angeles Times: UC San Diego researchers develop implantable glucose sensor that lasts for a year in pigs

• This sentence made me read twice: “As many as 800,000 people already use external insulin pumps that, through programming, inject a continuous background level of insulin and higher jolts at mealtimes or when a physical blood test indicates.” Jolts, hmmm, is that the lay term for bolus? Come here, Q, let me give you a jolt for your lunch.
• “Parents of diabetics…typically worry about sugar levels in their children during the night, frequently waking them up to take readings. The new device could broadcast an alert if levels got too low or too high.”
• “In a small chamber in the device, glucose from the blood is oxidized and the device measures the oxygen that is left behind. A second sensor measures the amount of oxygen in the blood. By subtracting the two readings, the device can tell how much glucose is in the blood. It then transmits the reading to a receiver that must be within 10 to 12 feet of the patient.”

Cellnovo: The World’s First Wireless Touchscreen Diabetes Pump

• The “wireless touchscreen handset” looks very similar to an iPhone.
• It has a “compact disposable pump, and a smart, durable pump housing unit” which do have a small length of tubing.
• They list six executives and I was hoping to see background information on them–having diabetes is a plus for understanding patient needs–but they just include a sound bite from each.
• It’s interesting that they call it a “diabetes pump” and not an “insulin pump.” They also ask in one of the demo videos how your “sugar” is. Are they trying to dummy things down? I think people who are looking into an insulin pump probably are capable of using phrases like insulin pump and blood sugar. The company is based in London, so maybe that’s the terminology they use across the pond.

Calibra Gains FDA Clearance to Market Finesse Insulin Patch-Pen for Three-Day Use With Novolog

• “Combining the mealtime therapy-adherence benefits of insulin pumps with the simplicity and affordability of syringes and pens, Calibra’s novel bolus-only patch-pen is a small, adhesively attached, flat device that can be operated discretely through clothing to deliver mealtime, snack time, and correction bolus insulin in seconds.”
• “Measuring roughly two inches long, one-inch wide and one-quarter inch thick, Finesse is a small, plastic device designed to be worn on the skin like a bandage. Patients fill the device with up to three days of insulin using a standard syringe. Finesse is operated discreetly through a user’s clothing by squeezing together two buttons on the device. From start to finish, each dose takes seconds to complete.”
• If you are on MDI that includes both short-acting and long-acting insulin such as Lantus, I’m assuming you still have to have that Lantus injection.
• It will be interesting to see what age group this is approved for. My guess is that it wouldn’t be appropriate for young children if they could push the buttons and accidentally give themselves a bolus.

Diabetes Health: The Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute Meets the Challenge of Training Diabetes Educators Across the Globe

• “The Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute (JJDI) provides health professionals with no-cost education and training programs in key regions of the world – China, Japan, the U.S. and Europe.”
• “One exercise that has proven to be especially effective takes a “day in the life” approach, where the educators try to experience what it is like to self-manage diabetes.  “This morning before lunch, we gave everyone a chance to use a blood glucose meter and really get to know how to use it,” said Dr. Horwitz.  “At lunch, they counted their carbs, with some help. Then, at the end of the day, we started them on an insulin pump (without insulin, of course). They had to wear the pump and then to go to dinner in a restaurant, without carb cards and figure it out.”
• You know what I think? I think that this type of “day in the life” training should be mandatory for ALL endocrinologists, CDE’s, and nurses who are part of a person with diabetes’ care team! You know what they say: Walk a mile in my shoes.

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I liked including lots of videos on Type 1 Tuesday a few weeks ago so I thought I would bring you another video edition.

A couple of people on Twitter were laughing about this video over the weekend. I was watching it and Q was first excited to realize that Tim has diabetes when he flashed the glucose meter. But then she began asking why he had on a tuxedo and what party he was going to. And why he was making a movie in a library. I don’t know which was funnier, the video itself, or Q’s commentary.

Tim of Shoot Up or Put Up: Review – Bayer Contour USB

I don’t know if you’ve seen this video. Probably you have, but perhaps you have not.

The time I first saw it, I thought it was hilarious. But actually meeting George and Cherise last month makes it even funnier to me now.

They speak sing the truth, you know.

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Featured D-Blogs of the Week

Here are some of my favorite posts I have read recently:

This is Caleb: Jamie Oliver Mentions Colin (So cool! Way to go Colin.)

Michael of The Diabetic’s Corner Booth: Even Better than Edward Cullen (Guest post by Jennifer Rowe about how she became a phlebotomist.)

Lauras of The Houston Five: OmniPod Pod Recycling (I was laughing at the used pods lined up like cars.)

Scott’s Diabetes Journal: Adult Type 1 Conference (If you are an adult PWD, give your input to help shape sessions for adults at next year’s CWD.)

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Featured D-Vlogs of the Week

Manny Hernandez (TuDiabetes) interview with Dr. Henry Anhalt (Animas) and Dr. Aaron Kowalski (JDRF) about the Artificial Pancreas Project:

World Diabetes Day 2010 Official Launch Video: Let’s take control of diabetes. Now.

HealthSeeker game for Facebook:

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It’s been one week since the 2010 Roche Social Media Summit. It was such a great experience, but don’t just take my word for it. Go read these summaries. This list is probably not comprehensive, but I tried to catch as many as I could as they came across my feed reader. Did I miss your post-Summit recap? Please let me know.

Featured D-Blogs of the Week

(In the order I saw them.)

D-Mom Blog: Meeting My D-Family and Roll Call

Diabetes Sisters: Better Late Than Never

Ninjabetic: Roche Social Media Summit – Part 1

Diabetes Mine: Quick Brief: Roche Social Media Summit and What the ADA Learned from the Diabetes Social Media Summit

Six Until Me: The Post Before the One About the Summit and Reaching the Summit and A Big Ol’ Discussion About Meter Accuracy

Diabetesaliciousness: A Brief Post on Roche Before the Big Post on Roche

Lemonade Life: Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit

Betizuka: Roche Social Media Summit

Sara Knicks: Roche Social Media Summit Overview and What are we doing here – Roche Summit part 2

Ask Manny: Roche Social Media Summit 2010: My Thoughts

Diabetes Stories: Orlando, a hotbed of diabetes activity

Diabetic Iz Me: Visit to the ER in Orlando

The Diabetic’s Corner Booth: Thanks, Roche – For So Much

Sarahndipity: What Happened There: Volume 1: Airport Madness and What Happened There part 2: The night before (vlog) and Review of Roche Social Media Summit number 2, June 29, 2010

Huffington Post: How One Pharma Company Is Making A Difference With Patients

Type 1 Tidbits: Roche Summit: The 2nd Coming

Diabetesaliciousness: My Spin on the Roche / Diabetes Social Media Summit- Year 2

Scott’s Diabetes Journal: 2010 Roche Social Media Summit

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Disclosure: Roche paid for all expenses relating to this trip including travel, lodging, meals, and incidentals. They did not ask me to post about the trip and all opinions are my own. We do not currently use any Roche diabetes products, nor were we given any free diabetes products from Roche. Please read the D-Mom Blog disclosure statement for more information.

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Featured D-Blogs of the Week

What great D-Blog posts have you read or written this week? Here are some of my favorite posts I have read recently:

KayRitzdorf of I’m (O) Kay: Relationships. Her mom is having a hard time letting Kay manage her own diabetes, even though she’s in her 20’s. I can relate…I mean how will I be able to let go and let my daughter take care of herself in her 20’s when I’ve been in charge of her care for so long.

Joanne of Death of a Pancreas: Ok, So I’m a Nerd. I laughed when she used her daughter’s glucose meter for her own purpose. I felt off the other day and used my daughter’s meter to check my own BG.

Amy of Embrace Diabetes: My Community. I’m not just including this because she mentioned me (wink), but because it is such a tremendous feeling when us D-parents are finally able to connect with people who “get it.”

Penny of A Sweet Grace: That’s My Gal. Oh my, this just made me laugh. The things kids say!

Jessica of Sticking It to Diabetes: Scissors Required. Um. I think I need to go look at all of our tubes of cake icing gel. I never realized this.

Sherry of Jenna’s Pet Monkey: A Hero Among Us. So often we write about our D-Kids, but what about their siblings? This D-Sister is pretty great.

Amanda of Oh Amanda: Make Your Own Pancake Mix. This isn’t a diabetes-related website, but I am definitely going to give this a try. And I’ll mark the bag with the carb counts.

Jennifer Carden of The Toddler Café: Summer, It’s in the Bag. Another non-D blog post. Jennifer is the author of The Toddler Café and just an all-around great person that I’ve gotten to know a little online. Here’s a way to make your own ice cream. Because we all know that you can have ice cream even if you have diabetes.

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We’re so busy getting ready for our big move in two weeks and wrapping up the school year. But here are a few of the blog posts that I have enjoyed this past week.

Have you entered to win a National Wildlife Federation children’s magazine like Ranger Rick? Just leave a comment about camping on yesterday’s post.

Featured D-Blogs of the Week

Here are some of my favorite posts I have read recently:

2 Green Eyed Girls: Did I really just say that? (I’m speechless.)

Reyna of Beta Buddies: Last Thoughts on Good Bye (We’re moving in a couple of weeks too.)

Alix of Finding Our Balance: Kefir 101 (I just can’t get past the first line of this post! I don’t know why, but it makes me giggle.)

Amy of DiabetesMine: Pretty BGs: Glucose Logging Software for the Mac (I still want my pump to download directly to a Mac, but this is a start.)

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