Tandem Blog
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Running With Diabetes: Don Muchow Runs Across Texas in Fastest Known Time
Don Muchow started running in 2004 after a laser treatment for diabetes-related retinopathy. Running was a cheap way to start being active. Once he got going, he needed a community of other people with type 1 diabetes to learn from and exchange ideas about exercise. He started the Diabetes & Exercise Alliance. In March 2019, with support from that community and his wife, Leslie, Don ran across Texas -- 850 miles in 27 days. He set a FKT by 2.5 days.
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Living with Diabetes: Lessons in T1D and adventure
Author Ben Tzeel shares how the session “Everyday Management of T1D Through the Lens of Adventure,” presented by Peter Nerothin at the Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference in Orlando, FL, opened his mind to a whole new world of possibilities and reasons for why challenging ourselves can help us live our best life.
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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet PWD Mark Heyman, PhD, CDE
The expression, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” encourages optimism and positivity in the face of life’s challenges. For our blog series, Making Lemonade from Lemons, we’ll profile people with diabetes (PWD) who’ve squeezed lemons from the diagnosis of diabetes and made lemonade - they exemplify this expression. These PWD make living with diabetes just a bit easier for everyone and show the world just how well PWD can live. This profile by Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE features Mark Heyman, PhD, CDE.
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t:simulator Demo App as insulin pump training tool for school nurses and teachers
Entrusting your child’s care with someone else (whether it be for school or daycare) can be hard for any parent. When your child has a chronic health condition, like type 1 diabetes, it is even harder to hand the reins over. One major resource that continually helps the Wheeler family, even though they are 10+ years into their diabetes journey, is the free t:simulator™ Demo App.
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Making Lemonade from Lemons: Meet PWD Stephen Shaul
The expression, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” encourages optimism and positivity in the face of life’s challenges. This profile by Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, features Stephen Shaul, a person who has lived with diabetes for 27 years. Over the last decade Stephen has found a variety of ways to engage with and support others with diabetes both locally and internationally.
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Moving on; New pump, new Jazzercise certification, new motto.
Karen recently joined the Tandem family after using an Animas insulin pump. She's been doing Jazzercise for 27 years and she became certified to teach last November. For many years she’d been thinking about getting certified and it was once she got her t:slim X2 pump with Basal-IQ technology that she felt secure enough with her diabetes management to get it done.
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