Category Archives: health

from close to home stuff on diabetes, fibromyalgia and what’s up with the family to cool stuff I come across

H1N1 Panic in the Hundred Acre Wood

This just in… Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood have been seized by H1N1 Panic and taking no chances have isolated and quarantined Piglet!
Pooh’s lovable friend and side-kick was spared no sympathy as many residents are blaming him for the entire swine flu pandemic! Late Friday night (Devil’s Night), Piglet’s friends and [...]

2009 Telus JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

What an awesome day for the walk this year! We got ourselves up ready and off, arriving at Streetsville Memorial Park around 8:30am. Shortly after our arrival we realized we forgot all our pledges!!!!! Luckily, they have the online numbers at the registration desks and we were able to send in the rest after the [...]

5 Days till the Telus JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

Hi everyone!
It’s been an incredibly busy spring this year! Work, Scouting and everything else. it’s been great!
I can’t believe it’s already June and we only have 5 days left until the Walk to Cure Diabetes!
I just want to thank everyone who has supported us in the past and donated this year too. For [...]

Inspirational JDRF Video

Just some of the reasons this will be our 5th year walking for the Cure…
Support the research, help us find a cure: http://tr.im/koYh

Sponsor me in the 2008 JDRF Walk for a Cure

Our family has been very dedicated to this cause for a number of years now.
Both my wife, Berta and son, Christopher have Type 1 Diabetes.
Berta having had Diabetes now for 33 years has been developing many of the complications which can make daily life exceedingly difficult.
Our hope is that through efforts like this and the [...]

2007 Walk for a Cure

This morning we checked in for the walk just after 9am. The weather was awesome and we had a nice bonus when we arrived they actually had room in the disabled parking this year!
Bert hadn’t been doing very well the past month or so but happily she was feeling good from the start and had [...]

Sponsor Ron in the 2007 JDRF Walk for a Cure

For the last 3 years our family has participated in the annual Walk for a Cure to raise money to help find a Cure for Juvenile Diabetes (Type 1 Diabetes).
As each year passes, Berta and Chris struggle to maintain the best control over their blood sugars that they can, and battle the complications and daily [...]

Aaron’s annual Trigr followup

Well we won’t be doing that one again! The next time we venture downtown Toronto, I’m going to check the MTO website to find out the road status!!!
We headed downtown for Aaron’s 11:30am Trigr followup, left home about 10:30ish (lots of time right??.. hehe)… Guess what?! Turns out falling ice from the CN Tower closed [...]

The handshake and flu season

Great article today at CTV.ca regarding the idea of forgoing the traditional greeting of a handshake as a preventative measure during cold and flu season.
You can read the article hereCTV.ca ArticleShould we skip handshakes, to avoid colds and flu?.
They mention two important points: