Every November we celebrate Diabetes Awareness Month - is celebrate the right word? Anyway, there's nothing but blue circles as far as the eye can see, just as long as your eye can't see beyond the diabetes online community. After November ends you can be assured that there will be blog posts written that use phrases like, "We are just talking to ourselves" and even more that indicate that the choir is preaching to itself. We get sad that all of our effort didn't break the diabetes conversation wide open and we wonder why the NFL isn't wearing blue for diabetes?

Sound familiar?

I've been working behind the scenes to get real DOC based diabetes conversations/stories into mainstream media. It's a little too early to talk about a radio interview that looks like it will happen next month, but I can tell you today about one of my blog pieces that is running on Huffington Post Parents.



'I am not Diabetes' is featured on the Dads front page! Some love, shares and likes can push it to the front of HuffParents. My hope is that one day people will read about diabetes and understand it the way they do breast cancer and other more easily felt/understood diseases. My inclination is that when someone hears you have cancer, they immediately understand the situation that you are in. Diabetes, to the uninitiated is not so self-explanatory, but you know that.

