A diabetes handbook, written by members of TuD?

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Permalink Reply by Cherise on May 19, 2009 at 5:32pm

I know that there are a lot of people that are not any type of diabetic that misunderstand diabetes, besides having one type or another not understand another type. I think this would be a good idea. With my family, they are all Type 2 Diabetics and then out of no where pops me, a Type 1 diabetic. No explanation on where it came from.

Let me know what I can do. I'm really good with layouts and organization and writing things. I work with InDesign which is good for laying out books, brochures, business cards, etc. I guess that would be the graphic designer in me speaking.

Cherise

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on May 19, 2009 at 9:21pm

Awesome Cherise! Perhaps you could do the layout for the handboook!!! That would be GREAT! :)

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Permalink Reply by Scott on May 19, 2009 at 7:02pm

I'm in.. old and cranky T1, pumping, symlin and blessed to not have serious complications after 40 years

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on May 20, 2009 at 1:31pm

Oooh, a symlin user! That would be good to include too! (Your crankiness can be dealt with.)

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Permalink Reply by Sarah on May 20, 2009 at 10:31am

Hi Kristin. I can help out with the writing part (I have no artistic ability sadly). I am very busy for the next week or so, but just let me know what needs to be done and how I can help. Will this be an e-book?

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on May 20, 2009 at 1:31pm

Thanks Sarah! This project with take weeks. I don't have much time in the next two weeks. So we should just start to get the plan together and start dividing up tasks. The best thing to do right away is to recruit more people to get involved :)

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Permalink Reply by Marie B on May 21, 2009 at 9:53am

let me know what I can do to help. I'm pretty good at proofreading, and I know the difference between "affect" and "effect"..

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Permalink Reply by Sheila Green on August 14, 2009 at 4:03am

Marie:
I didn't know you are good at proofreading. I am office manager for a medical transcription company and we transcribe/edit/proof-read medical reports. Do you have any experience in this type of field? Let me know
Sheila

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Permalink Reply by Manny Hernandez on June 2, 2009 at 6:12pm

We are testing a new concept in the community called Wiki. A wiki is a platform that lets groups of people collectively create a piece of content (think Wikipedia).

I have created a test wiki for this concept that Kristin came up with.

Let's see how it works: it should allow everyone in the community to contribute to the handbook. Let's start with this group and see how things go.

Who wants to populate the table of contents, based on the points previously discussed?

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Permalink Reply by Dov on June 8, 2009 at 10:42pm

I can, in my spare time, start to outline a "legal aspects of diabetes" section, at least for the US type folks. I'd cover things like ADA, restrictions on various activities, and the morbid stuff like health care proxies, living wills, etc. I'm sure I'm not the only lawyer on here, and I'm US (and NY, specifically) centric, but I could at least get the structure going.

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on June 8, 2009 at 11:06pm

Dov-- this would be great! Next week I plan to invest some time in this project again... so let's keep in touch.

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Permalink Reply by Dov on June 10, 2009 at 7:50pm

I'm going to be up to my . . . ears . . . in alligators at work until next Friday - best way to reach me will be e-mail.

We may also want to include information about the high/low carb diet wars, literature reviews in re: complications and such (a lot of people still seem to think that all diabetics are gonna buy the farm in about 10 years, tops, with horrible complications, because they're using old data), and - and for me, this would be huge - a list of all the OTC/prescription drugs that we're not supposed to use, and what the possible effects are. For example - pepto bismol can LOWER blood sugar, but only in T2s on a particular type of meds; clobetasol (a prescription topical steroid) is strong enough to be absorbed through the skin and raise blood sugars.

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