The prison term has come to say goodbye to 2018, as we vex ready to ring in a new year. Merely before we do, it's worth attractive a look backward at this concluding month of '18 to reflect on all the salient diabetes posts that have shined brighter than any vacation lights. Yep, the ball will be dropping soon, so here's our "countdown" of a dozen roughly December D-Posts that caught our eye (in no particular order). These are meet a small sample distribution of what's being mutual in the Diabetes Online Profession…

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Poetry, just in time for the holiday mollify by The Grumpy Pumper over in England. The Advent of Insulin Calendar may not actually exist in stores (nonetheless) but this #AdventOfInsulin prose is certainly something we all can embrace in our homes for the seasonal worker festivities, no? 🙂

Oh, vacation sweater fun… this "My Pancreas Got Pass over Over by a Reindeer" one came from Kristi at Diabetic Truths on Instagram. Ha!

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There's always vacation-themed screening on TV this time of year, and single of those is the Great Christmas Light Fight on ABC (the list is obvious there, Folks). This twelvemonth, a Early House of York family won the $50,000 pry and given the overladen amount to JDRF! Our podcasting friend Stacey Simms chatted with D-Dad Joe Mure about this contest and his family's diabetes story.

Should you operating theater shouldn't you, as uttermost as diabetes-themed vacation gifts? We tackled that etiquette question fresh at the 'Mine and it was clearly a subject others in the DOC were thinking about too, including Frank Sita over at his Type 1 Writes blog in Australia.

Our Friend Stephen Shaul at Fortunate Medium is what he describes as "euphoric exhausted" after much a big class of D-activity throughout 2018. Take a read of all he has to portion, likewise as our own "Diabetes Year in Review" roundup hither at the 'Mine.

Foperating theatre a light and fun look back on 2018, here's a great Buzzfeed article from D-Ma Stacey Simms about the 20 Trump Type 1 Diabetes Tweets of the twelvemonth. Lots of smiles in on that point, specially beholding good 'ol Wilford Brimley enclosed in there, besides. 🙂

Every twelvemonth at this time, our D-Community faces the annual battle of devising sure all meds and supplies are filled and closing deductibles are met. Kelly Kunik at diabetesaliciousness wrote a post about transaction with those headaches. Ugh, we sympathize with you, Kel!

It was awesome to see D-cognizance natural event at just about big NFL games during December, as more than 800 players and team cheerleaders participated in the #MyCauseMyCleats movement raising awareness nigh charitable causes they care about. Those on our radar included: Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Tess whose boyfriend Troy Whitty lives with T1D, and to respect him she wore special grey boots with a Cowboy star featuring a red blood sink for diabetes; Baltimore Ravens defence mechanism tackle Orlando Brownness Jr. wore blue JDRF-supporting cleats; Baltimore Ravens tight end Maxx Williams wore juicy cleats supporting the Diabetes Research Constitute; Tampa Bay tree Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston wore blue JDRF cleats; and New York Giants line backer Kareem Martin wore red cleats for the American Diabetes Connection. Give thanks you, NFLers!

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Wow, it's been 4 years (!) in real time since Dana Lewis became the foremost to use a get along-it-yourself closed-loop system system called #OpenAPS. So much sentence has gone past, and it's jolly awing to read Dana's recent post on what has and hasn't changed during that time in this subset of the #WeAreNotWaiting community of interests.

Have you heard of Diabetes and Dads? Information technology's one of the newest podcasts to launch in our DOC, featuring D-dads Alan and Stain who have T1D daughters that met through D-camp. The men started up the podcast in November and have already published a couple episodes, and we're looking forward to hearing more from them.

We favored seeing this post from Anita Nicole Brown at the Women of Color page on Instagram, display off her diabetes-themed outfit created and worn for a Recent epoch pageantry. Skillful cognisance-raising utilization of D-supplies there, Anita!

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Over at the MySugr Sri Frederick Handley Page on Facebook, our good champion Scott Andrew Johnson has been creating some awesome FB Live videos in which helium interviews fellow D-peeps and shares their stories. Just this past tense month, he's had just about great chats with D-Advocates similar Quinn Nystrom in Minnesota, and professional actress and advocate Niketa Calame Harris in Los Angeles (the voice of young Nala in 1994's The Lion King!). And ab initio of 2019, Scott's previewing an interview with comedy sketch author Patric Ciervo in New York WHO lives with both T1D and spastic paralysis and has created some humourous "guess my blood sugars" videos on YouTube. Love listening to all of these, Scott!

Thanks to all for great posts this calendar month, and throughout complete of 2018. Naturally, we can't wait to see what the DOC has in storehouse for 2019!!