Wow!  What an INCREDIBLE week!  I flew to Atlanta for the AADE Conference on Wednesday morning and returned on Friday night.  I haven’t had that much fun (at a Conference!) in a long time…well, maybe ever!  I saw some old diabetes friends and met lots of new diabetes friends.  I spent some time with old friends, Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge, of Team Type 1.  I also met one of my favorite diabetes authors, Hope Warshaw.  The DiabetesSisters booth was jumping with people and excitement the whole time.  Everyone was curious about us since this was the first time we have exhibited there.  Some even said that they were told by other educators that they “had to stop by our booth to hear about all that we are doing to help women with diabetes.”  Others said they had our name circled in their program as an organization that they wanted to check out.  We got lots of positive feedback on our mission (and how needed it is), our soothing color scheme, the layout of the website, and how pretty our t-shirts are.  Needless to say, we sold lots of t-shirts.  One woman bought 10 t-shirts!  She said her group of friends with diabetes had always referred to themselves as “DiabetesSisters” and she was glad there was an organization for them now!  I also met Kelly Rawlings of Diabetic Living and the new Managing Editor of Diabetes Health, Russ Phillips.  

I was also very EXCITED to be able to announce our 2010 Weekend for Women Conference while at the AADE Conference!  Yes, that’s right!  Mark your calendars for May 22-23, 2010!!!!  DiabetesSisters and TCOYD are teaming up to bring YOU a fabulous overnight event focused specifically on women with diabetes in 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina!  It will begin at the end of TCOYD (5pm) with pampering and socializing!  It will end on Sunday afternoon at 5pm after a day of engagement, interaction, and education about the issues faced by women with diabetes.  As soon as I have more details, I will post them for you here (on my blog) and on the homepage of DiabetesSisters.  We are working on booking our speakers right now and our (not yet confirmed) keynote speaker is going to be someone you won’t want to miss!   

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Laura  - Yay!   |SAdministrator |2009-08-12 10:51:07 Oh my goodness Brandy!! I can hardly wait! May 22nd next year... Finally I get to meet you all! So, so exciting. Can't wait to hear more details and plan my vacation to North Carolina Woo-hoo!

Carole Calladine   |68.76.83.xxx |2009-08-13 16:15:57 Dear Brandy: How exciting! Glad the conference was fun, too! I've marked my May calendar! Carole

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