We hope you'Re besides taking it easy and enjoying some sentence off with friends and family complete this Thanksgiving break. And if you're into Black Fri shopping, may the best of vacation bargains be with you!

Of course, our diabetes ne'er takes a holiday, so present are a couple of specific "Thanksgiving and Diabetes" resources that might come in handy at this food for thought-centric time:

  • This cracking Turkey Day infographic by the Project Blue November group
  • A holiday eating T1D endurance draw from D-blogging chirrup Jen, and
  • 25 Tips and Tricks from the Diabetes Community in managing diabetes on Thanksgiving (and other food-related holidays, no doubt).

We also precious to take a moment to reflect on how thankful and appreciative we are for some specific diabetes items:

  • Technology, Treatment + Tools: Wholly kinds of new tech and treatments keep coming intent on serve the States manage our diabetes, and it's an especially exciting time in the world of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and emerging closed-loop system systems. Of course, in that respect's also an app for everything nowadays giving people so some tools to help manage their health. Naturally, Your Diabetes May Change with any of these, but having them as options is a saving thing and we definitely have to appreciate the innovation!

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  • CGM (Rocks): We so appreciate our Dexcom CGMs along this food-saturated holiday. And our team too appreciates our Afrezza inhaled insulin that acts sol quickly to put down our BGs when our willpower falters 🙂
  • People: This is totally worth highlighting. YOU are on our list of things we're thankful for. We appreciate all of you coming here to read our stuff and ship tips our way. And just generally speaking, we are so grateful for everything you all do to help make this world healthier (for diabetes and on the far side).
  • Access, Affordability + Awareness: While this remains a huge trouble and relate in the diabetes space, we are thankful for completely of the people doing what they can to spend a penny a difference… from big and littler orgs to individual advocates, to those just raising awareness past sharing their personal stories. We send our support and Sunday-go-to-meeting wishes to all the PWDs and families out there fighting the good fight with insurers, third-party supply companies and healthcare professionals to get what they need to thrive!

Here at the 'Mine, we attempt to do our part by keeping our ears to the ground to Army of the Righteou you all know what's happening that might be epochal for your living with diabetes. At the destruction of the day, information technology's about providing information that you can hopefully use somehow to enrich your own life-time.

Please let U.S.A know what you're thankful for!

With that, we leave you with this Meleagris gallopavo Daylight illustration, from our T1 friend and artist Terry Keelan in Calif.:

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Happy Thanksgiving Day, Everyone!