Diabetes Sisters: Weekend for Women.

To sit in a room chock full of women (weird description but I'm leaving it there) and be able to blurt out strange and potentially awkward questions about how diabetes affects life as a lady?  All while surrounded by supportive and understanding women who also have diabetes?That pretty much sums up my weekend in Raleigh, NC for the Diabetes Sisters Weekend for Women conference.  I've attended one other Diabetes Sisters event, and the same sort of sentiment applied to this most recent one:  it's oddly comforting to be in a roomful of people who "get it."  Especially people who "get it" as "it" pertains to being a woman with diabetes.I was in attendance to present about diabetes and sex.  Okay, fine, it was billed as "SisterTalk: Creating Better Relationships & Marriages, Moderated by: Rhonda Merwin, PhD; Panelists: Brandy Barnes, MSW, Daphene Kimball, RN, Anna Norton, MS, Kerri Sparling," but it opened with discussions about intimacy and diabetes, because that's what was on people's minds.  Topics ranged from "How do you disconnect from/deal with diabetes devices in the bedroom without feeling owned by them?" to "How do you strike a balance with extended family members who are over-involved/judgmental/uninvolved with your diabetes?"  Despite the fact that the panel discussion was presented to a large room, the discussions were close and intimate (and better left un-blogged),...
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