• Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

    Wishing a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone in the Diabetes Online Community! May we all take time today to remember what this day is all about; Giving thanks for all of the blessings that come to us. Today, as with each day, I am thankful to be alive, I am thankful for my family and friends, and I am thankful for the good memories of those who are no longer here to share in this day. I’m thankful to have been able to spend more time with my family in Louisville this year.  My schedule and the distance make it difficult to get down there at times.  And, if I’m being honest, issues with my health over the last…

  • Happy New Year

    Well friends, there’s about 1 hour left in this final day of 2013 and I’m thankful to see it come to an end.  It has been an incredibly difficult year for so many reasons and while I could spend a lot of time recapping the good and the bad of 2013, I’d really rather wrap up this year of life and blogging with short note from the heart. So, from the pit of my left ventricle, I wish you all a safe and Happy New Year.  Be well, my friends!

  • 5 years

    Today is the 5th anniversary of my diagnosis with Type 2 Diabetes and Congestive Heart Failure.  Wow, only five years?  It feels like so much longer.  Alas, just five years.  Five years of knowing, caring, surviving, and sharing. Five years of knowing that I have a two invisible chronic illnesses for which there are no cures.  Five years of knowing that I’m not alone in my fight.  That there are millions of others fighting the same things.  Five years of getting to know some of the most amazing people around.  Lots of love to everyone in the Diabetes Online Community. Five years of caring more about my well being.  Five years of doing everything I possibly could to beat the…

  • Merry Christmas DOC!

    Wishing peace, love, joy, and good health to everyone in the Diabetes Online Community, this Christmas and always. Lots of Love, DOC! Mike Durbin

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Wishing a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone in the Diabetes Online Community! May we all take time today to remember what this day is all about; Giving thanks for all of the blessings that come to us. Today, as with each day, I am thankful to be alive, I am thankful for my family and friends, and I am thankful for the good memories of those who are no longer here to share in this day.  I’m thankful that April, her dad, and I will be able to go to Louisville to have dinner with the rest of my family this evening. Happy Thanksgiving and lots of love, my friends!