We're once again smack dab in the middle of the year, in the dogs days of summer. And as always, at that place's a mess going on approximately the Diabetes Online Community (DOC).

Here's our each month roundup of fave posts that caught our eye, in none particular consecrate.

Delight chime in and share your favorites too, if you comparable!

Mwhatever D-Residential district friends gathered in Orlando, FL, for the yearly summer league acknowledged as Friends For Life. These FFL posts by fellow bloggers Grace Patricia Kelly Kunik and Michelle Auerbach captured some of the sentiments, and we also enjoyed beholding the many photos the host org Children With Diabetes (CWD) joint around their annual consequence.

Regarding diabetes conferences, it's e'er important to proceed perspective. We certainly appreciate the heartfelt POV of Renza at Diabetogenic: "Those evenings when the sessions consume finished, and the official dinners are over and we simply sit together, debrief, refocus and put diabetes back in perspective, make me whole once more." Amun.

This post about "Feeling Strange" in the DOC from Understudy Pancreas is worth a read at, as information technology's food for intellection connected following the Golden Rule in our D-Residential district.

Over in Australia, fellow T1D blogger Outspoken Sita had a medical master say to him recently that helium has "Very Penurious Control." Ugh, really?! Don't miss the story behind that and what Frank said in response…

We enjoyed this Diabetes Daily interview with TV actor Anthony Anderson, who stars on the sitcom "Black-ish" and lives with type 2 diabetes himself. Always good to hear of folks in the limelight who have dared to "get real" about their D-management ups and downs.

THera's no denying that quite bit of perquisite exists in most corners of society, and that's true in our Diabetes Online Community likewise. T1 advocate Clayton McCook shares around thoughts on that yield ended at Medium, of course of instruction in the context of insulin affordability and access.

While information technology may not be a double bring out for some, the term "diabetic" can personify cringe-worthy and get blood boiling for others in our D-Community. Opinions May vary on which words are offensive, but we can every last agree that language sincerely matters. Boyfriend type 1 and CDE Jane Dickinson revisits this topic with some sharp words of her own.

Do you try to beryllium restrained about your diabetes? Wil Wilbur at The Busted Pancreas has just about tips on how to keep in D sour the reference grid at multiplication. Check out the three ways atomic number 2 does that at "Keeping Diabetes Discreet."

Not all moment is one and only reserved for diabetes advocacy, and sometimes we all just need to go about our stage business without feeling beholden to educate those around U.S.A or raise knowingness. Thanks to Kerri Sparling at Six Until Me for reminding United States of America that it's totally OK not to put on that D-advocacy hat all the fourth dimension.

This beautifully-written post loaded of heavy meaning actually came at the end of hold out calendar month: There's a Cracking in Everything, by T1D blogger Helen Edwards at Your Diabetes Hub. Like her, we too always essa to be mindful of merely nisus for "better" rather than perfection when it comes to life with diabetes and the missteps we altogether make at times.

Oh, the Uncomfortable Truths that arise from life with diabetes… Georgie at My Lazy Pancreas has a few pointed messages for the world at large, i.e. how "it's about meter" for some fundamental changes in the direction diabetes is viewed and dressed.

We were inspired to read old T1 PWD Tamra Garcia's post at Diabetes Odyssey just about staying positive despite tough times in life — in uncommon being able to prevail (because she knew she could) after a triple bypass surgery years ago and start a new line of work of late. Congrats on all that, Tamra!

Sol, D-peeps: Any special posts catch your eye during the yesteryear month of July?

We contribution our favorites all month, and would have a go at it to admit yours. Please send along your picks for the calendar month of Revered to us via Chitter, Facebook or email. We look forward to hearing from you!