What a great day! A little drizzly here in southern Missouri, but today is my first free day after completing my nursing program at Missouri Southern State University (pinning & graduation will make this official at the end of the week--whew!)...
It's also my first day blogging again, after about a three-year lapse in blogging. I used to have a blog entitled Diabetic Accessories, which sounds like it would discuss things like insulin pumps and other things, but mostly it was an anything-goes blog... and I didn't discuss diabetes all that much. But I've been a diabetic for over 21 years--since the age of five--and in those 21 years, I have had a lot to be thankful for.
Here, I'm hoping to integrate a little more diabetes into the conversation, as I have been given the amazing opportunity to participate as Team Captain for the Central Plains region for Triabetes, a triathlon club for diabetics, as part of the Insulindependence organization. The main mission of Insulindependence is to revolutionize diabetes management, to educate, inspire, and empower diabetics to meet goals and live fully with diabetes. Hence the title of my blog, I am thankful for diabetes and for the challenges its taught me to face. If you visit my Triabetes Fundraising Page, you'll see some of what my goals and responsibilities are as a Triabetes Team Captain in the 2011-2012 season (including raising over $4,000 and reaching out to my community of diabetics). I hope to discuss many of these goals and new opportunities in future months on this blog--so please stick around, send some support, and also check out my fellow captains on the Triabetes homepage!
Thanks for reading!
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