Six Until Me

Kerri Morrone SparlingKerri Morrone Sparling of Six Until Me
Type 1 Diabetes, September 1986

“Diabetes doesn’t define me, but it helps explain me. Kerri Sparling writes honestly and fearlessly about real life with Type 1 Diabetes.”

Six Until Me

Kerri Morrone Sparling has been living with Type 1 Diabetes for over 24 years, diagnosed just before she started second grade. She manages her Diabetes and lives her life by the mantra “Diabetes doesn’t define me, but it helps explain me.”

Kerri is the creator and author of www.SixUntilMe.com, one of the first and most widely-read Diabetes patient blogs. Started in May 2005, Six Until Me has a strong and loyal readership comprised of people with Diabetes, the caregivers of diabetics, medical professionals, and those living with chronic illness. She has contributed columns to diaTribe, Animas, dLife, and is a guest columnist for many Diabetes publications. Kerri is a passionate advocate for Diabetes awareness. Fascinated by social media and its influence on patients, Kerri presents regularly at new media conferences and currently works full-time as a freelance writer and social media consultant.

Kerri and her husband, Chris, live in Rhode Island with their daughter.

Six Until Me

Filed Under: Diabetes Resources, News & Analysis, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Women with Diabetes Tagged With: , ,

Kelly Rawlings

Kelly RawlingsKelly Rawlings
Type 1 Diabetes, 1973

“DOC contributor, public speaker, health writer, and my own pancreas for 38 years. Social media is an important tool to help us thrive with chronic conditions.”

Diabetic Living – Kelly Rawlings

Kelly Rawlings has served as her own artificial pancreas for thirty eight years (and counting) during her life with Type 1 Diabetes. She regularly participates in the tudiabetes.org community and other online venues where people with Diabetes congregate. Check out her #diabetes Tweets at Twitter.com/KellyRawlings (search #bgnow, #bgwed, #sweatbetes, #dsma, and #BluntLancet). She speaks about (and demonstrates) living well with Diabetes to community and professional groups. Kelly has served on the planning committee and as a faculty member for Taking Control of Your Diabetes, Des Moines. She also is an advisory board member for Diabetes Social Media Advocacy.

 

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DiabetesMine

Amy TenderichAmy Tenderich of DiabetesMine
Type 1.5 Diabetes (LADA), May 2003

“Type 1 journalist, author & advocate with a quirky personality. Amy’s editor-in-chief of DiabetesMine.com, sometimes called ‘The NY Times of Diabetes.”

DiabetesMine

Amy Tenderich is a journalist / patient blogger who started DiabetesMine.com after her diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2003. Her site has become a leading online destination for people with Diabetes and one of the top health blogs around the country and the world. In 2006, she won the LillyforLife Achievement Award for Diabetes journalism from Eli Lilly & Company.

She is the co-author, along with Dr. Richard Jackson of Joslin Diabetes Center, of Know Your Numbers, Outlive Your Diabetes – a unique motivational guide to the 5 key medial tests that everyone with Diabetes should have and monitor regularly.

Amy is also community manager of DiabeticConnect.com, the fastest-growing and most successful social networking site for people with Diabetes, with 400,000 registered members to date.

She recently joined DiabeticConnect’s parent company Alliance Health Networks, creators of social networks for people living with chronic conditions, as VP of Patient Advocacy. She’s totally passionate about patient empowerment, and has become a well-known advocate for all people
with Diabetes and all engaged “e-patients” everywhere.

Amy lives on the fringes of San Francisco, CA, with her husband, three daughters, and a calico cat.

DiabetesMine

Filed Under: Diabetes Resources, LADA, News & Analysis, Parents of D-Kids, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Women with Diabetes Tagged With: , , ,

Diabetesaliciousness™

Kelly KunikKelly Kunik of Diabetesaliciousness™
Type 1 Diabetes, October 1977

“Writes about the good, the bad & the Diabetesaliciousness™ of it all! I believe in spreading diabetes validation through humor, ownership & advocacy.”

Diabetesaliciousness™

Kelly Kunik, author & Editrix of Diabetesaliciousness.blogspot.com is a Diabetes Blogger, Diabetes Advocate, Writer, Humorist/ Expert at living life with Diabetes Consultant. The Diabetes On-line Community introduced her to others who were looking for the same thing  – support & understanding.

Kelly’s blog provides her with a voice and her readers with a Diabetesalicious perspective.

A Type 1 Diabetic for 33 years, Diabetes is a huge weed whose tendrils have wrapped tightly around her family tree.  Kelly comes from a family of Type 1′s, including two of her five siblings, (she’s the youngest of six) her father, two aunts, a great grandfather, a cousin, and her nephew. Kelly lost her older sister Debbie to Type 1 Diabetes in 1991 and there’s not a day that goes by that she doesn’t think about her.

She has the unique perspective of being a daughter, sister, niece, cousin, and aunt to someone with Type 1 Diabetes.  Kelly’s unique approach of empowering patients and their families through laughter and knowledge has been called validating, informative, empowering and funny.

She knows first hand the importance that knowledge; insulin pump therapy, Diabetes myth busting, laughter, and exercise plays in managing her life with Diabetes and is passionate about others becoming empowered as well!

Kelly writes for several on-line publications, and has been hired to speak in front of numerous patient groups and Diabetes clinicians. Kelly has consulted for several companies regarding living a Diabetes life and the Diabetes On-Line Community and recently participated in the 2011 JDRF’s Government Day, where she was sat on a panel with other Diabetes blogger who had grown up with Type 1 or were diagnosed with Type 1 as adults. With thousands of others, she charged Capital Hill & advocated for Diabetes to members of Congress.

Kelly sits on several advisory boards, including Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (#DSMA) & Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Kelly & her blog were recently featured in the April 2011 Edition of SELF Magazine’s “Be SELFless” column. In the Summer of 2010, she was a guest on the nationally syndicated radio show “Diabetes Living Today.”

Kelly strongly believes that the Diabetes On-line Community not only improves peoples lives with diabetes, it saves them!

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Hope Warshaw

Hope WarshawHope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE

“Offering practical solutions for healthier eating and Diabetes meal planning; Author, Spokesperson, Consultant and Diabetes Educator.”

Hope Warshaw Associates

 

Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, has been a Diabetes educator for over 30 years. She’s owned Hope Warshaw Associates, LLC for many years in which she provides corporate consulting services, serves as a freelance writer, authors consumer books about Diabetes and healthy eating with Diabetes. Warshaw has a passion for helping people with Diabetes become knowledgeable about their disease and develop the tools, skills and motivation to integrate the care for their Diabetes into their real lives.

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Riva Greenberg

Riva Greenberg of Diabetes Stories and The Huffington PostRiva Greenberg of Diabetes Stories
Type 1 Diabetes, February 1972

“Author, speaker and health coach helping people with diabetes create a great life – not despite – but because of diabetes.”

Diabetes Stories

Diabetes Stories unfolds the experiences and wisdom of living with Type 1 Diabetes 39 years. Riva’s work is dedicated to helping patients “flourish” rather than just “cope” with Diabetes and helping health care providers create more effective outcomes with patients. Riva is the author of two books, 50 Diabetes Myths That Can Ruin Your Life and the 50 Diabetes Truths That Can Save It and The ABC’s Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes, a requested speaker, health coach, peer-mentor, columnist for The Huffington Post and member of the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

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