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<p>Diabetes impacts our relationships in all dimensions — family, friends, significant others because seriously, how could it not? But how does diabetes impact a relationship when both people are living with diabetes?</p>

<p>Hello and happy holidays!</p>

<p>Finally 2020 is coming to a close. There is no question that this year has been an extremely tough year...one that came with many challenges, but shined light on all the things that matter to us most.</p>

<p>Diabetes wearable devices are tools that give us flexibility at our fingertips when it comes to insulin delivery.

<p>LADA -- <a href="https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/54/suppl_2/S68"&gt; latent autoimmune diabetes in adults </a> -- was first acknowledged in <a href="

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<p>For years, the HbA1c test has been the gold standard of care for assessing a person's blood sugar levels over the previous three months.

<p>Tubed or untethered - most (not all) of us living the subcutaneous insulin delivery life - a.k.a., wearing the Omnipod® System or another insulin pump - are privy to an idiosyncratic phenomenon that happens on occasion with a new infusion site.

<p>As a virtual Diabetes Health Coach and someone who has had Type 1 Diabetes for almost 20 years, I understand that one of the greatest things people with diabetes value is ease.

<p>By the time Prince Blue was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2016, his blood sugar was measuring at 800 mg/dL. Looking back, he realizes he hadn't been feeling well for over a year before then.</p>

<p>Asha Brown was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 5. Now, nearly 30 years later, she actually faces a handful of chronic health conditions she must manage on an hourly basis to get through her day.

<p>It was a dream come true when in 2012 I switched from a tubed pump to the Omnipod® System. I had spent years having to remove my pump while competing in track and field competitions and I would end up leaving the competitions with my blood sugars in the 300s.

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