DiabetesSisters of Greater Philadelphia, PA
About five years ago, Tara Weiss got an email that a new DiabetesSisters PODS Meetup was starting in the Greater Philadelphia area, and decided to try it. She loved being able to talk with a group of women living with diabetes who had gone through similar experiences as she had. When the PODS Leader at the time needed to step down from leading a few years later, Tara did not want the PODS to disappear. She agreed to lead and keep the group going. That was in 2016.
Daphene Kimball left the very first DiabetesSisters Weekend for Women conference in Raleigh, NC, with her older sister and oldest friend, feeling empowered and energized to learn how to “do diabetes” and make diabetes decisions that valued her own experience and needs as much as her health care provider’s. That was in 2010.
Insulet Debuts New Educational Self-Advocacy Tool at 20th Annual Children with Diabetes Friends for Life Conference
After being diagnosed with diabetes (type 1) as an adult in 2017, Rena Rossi found DiabetesSisters and the Part of DiabetesSisters (PODS) Meetup program. Rena knew that she needed peer support for her own life with diabetes, and wanted to become more involved with the diabetes community, but the closest PODS Meetup was more than an hour (and a different state) away. Plus, she wanted to create the first PODS Meetup in Rhode Island.
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