Who better to blog about diabetes than Jane, who has lived with type 1 diabetes for 40 years, and has been helping others live well with diabetes for over 20 years. Read My Bio
Jane K. Dickinson is a registered nurse and certified diabetes educator. She has lived with type 1 diabetes for 40 years, and has been helping others live well with diabetes for over 20 years. Jane is the Program Coordinator and faculty for the Master of Science in Diabetes Education and Management program at Teachers College Columbia University. This innovative program is preparing the next generation of diabetes education leaders. She is also the author of two diabetes-related books and maintains a blog on her website, www.janekdickinson.com.
Jane K.'s Latest Posts
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Reinvent Your Diabetes Life
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Certified diabetes educator Jane Dickinson challenges you to take a look at your life and make a positive change that can start you down a different, more satisfied path.
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Contemplations on a 40 Year Diaversary
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
Certified diabetes educator Jane Dickinson talks about the marking of her 40th year with diabetes with both remembrances, some poignancy, and most important still maintaining hope.
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Making Peace with Diabetes
Saturday, April 04, 2015
Long-time diabetes veteran and certified diabetes educator Jane Dickinson talks about accepting diabetes, especially through the understanding of what the experience of having the disease teaches people.
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Hope and Diabetes
Friday, December 05, 2014
No matter where peoples' thoughts turn to, it's always important to turn back to hopeful feelings about the present and the future.
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Being Truthful to Ourselves And Others
Friday, October 31, 2014
Being honesty is vital in a patient and provider relationship and reciprocity is key.
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Tips for the Fingertips
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Jane Dickinson talks about how people with diabetes can preserve their fingers even with frequent glucose checks.
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Diabetes is Small
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Jane Dickinson talks about the enormity of this date for America, and how it serves as a reminder about our daily struggles versus weighing the bigger picture.
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News for LADA
Friday, June 13, 2014
Certified diabetes educator Jane Dickinson talks about some recent news that may potentially help people with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults (LADA).
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Red Light, Green Light
Monday, May 19, 2014
There is a hospital that studied what happened when they labeled food in their cafeteria with traffic light colors. Green means healthy choice,...
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Travesty in Diabetes Care
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Yes, travesty. It’s a dramatic word, but to me, this statistic is dramatic and not in a good way. This article reports that only 29 percent of...
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A New Wording for Weight Loss
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
If you’ve read several of my posts, then you probably know that I think the words we use are important. I believe that language makes a...
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Eye Disease and Diabetes
Friday, March 28, 2014
We all have our fears related to diabetes, and my biggest one is eye disease (retinopathy). All my diabetes life I’ve heard scary statistics...
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Do You Exercise?
Friday, March 07, 2014
I just read an article that says research has now shown that people “who were asked about their exercise habits, lost more weight and lowered...
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What the Dentist Said
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
I have more to report from some presentations I attended recently. There was a dentist on a panel of health professionals, and when asked to...
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What is Hemoglobin A1C?
Thursday, January 02, 2014
I attended a diabetes update the other day, and wanted to share what I learned. The speakers were great, but I was possibly even more impressed...
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Are We Surviving or Thriving?
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
I spent some time with a women’s group recently and something very important came up: thriving comes from the positive while surviving comes...
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Memory and Diabetes
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Many of us with diabetes worry about the long-term effects of low blood glucose (hypoglyemia) on our brain cells. There is evidence that severe lows...
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Veggies for Kids
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Isn’t this a fun idea? A ‘tasting game’ for kids – to introduce them to veggies and help them develop a taste for them. I...
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Big Blue 'Test'
Monday, November 11, 2013
Have you heard about the “Big Blue ‘Test‘”? This is a project that the Diabetes Hands Foundation has been doing for several...
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Another Happy Blood Glucose
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
I had a conversation with a gentleman whose blood glucose was 117 this morning. I got very excited, because this number has huge significance for me,...
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Carbohydrate Counting - The Upside
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Many people use carb counting as a meal planning approach to managing diabetes. Carb counting came out of a huge study that was conducted in the...
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Sugar-Free Binges
Friday, October 11, 2013
When you drink “sugar-free” beverages, do you crave more sweets? Do you go for the “real deal”? The research has gone back...
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Hypoglycemia and Cardiovascular Health
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Managing diabetes is about protecting blood vessels. High blood glucose (sugar) over time can lead to damage in both large (macro) and small (micro)...
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It's All in the Timing: Looking at Mealtime Insulin
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
A situation I experienced recently made me decide to post the following: If you take mealtime insulin, avoid taking it too far ahead of a meal....
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Which 'Diet' is Best?
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
I listened to a wonderful lecture by David Katz, MD, recently. Dr. Katz is an expert in nutrition and wellness, along with adult health and disease...
