Goodbye 2019… As we get ready to ring in a new year and a blade untried decade (!), we're fetching a retrospect at the outstanding diabetes posts that make shined bright in this last calendar month of the year. Yep, the ballock will represent dropping shortly, so here's our "countdown" of a dozen close to December D-Posts that caught our eye (in no particular decree).

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F ootball and Diabetes go together over the holiday time of year in a great manner! As part of the football game league's My Cause My Cleats campaign in real time in its 4th year, four current NFL players — Mark Andrews and Orlando Brown Jr of the Baltimore Ravens, DeAndre Carter of the Houston Texans, and Jameis Winston of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — joined with former Houston Texans quarterback David Carr to showcase their support of the JDRF. They were among those who also participated in promoting the American Diabetes Association, along with many other orgs and causes.

E verything's better when you have a hound in a photo, right? Meet Moira the diabetes heads-up dog, who we saw marking the holidays with @type1none over on Instagram.

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We'Ra always felicitous to encounter T2D bloggers in our profession sharing their stories, umteen of them along the Beyond Type 2 site, where we were happy to discover the Next Wave T2D blog recently. It's a mid-Atlantic region T2 blogger sharing his diabetes story that began in 2018. His spot "The Starting" is a extraordinary place to begin, of course! 😉

D-Dada Tom Karlya continues his annual "Twas the Night Before D-Xmas" writeup, capturing this most Holocene epoch vacation mollify, diabetes-flair.

Scare tactics shouldn't be the go-to method used in nerve-racking to get people with diabetes back on track, and that's wherefore this guest put up from Renza Scibilia at DiaTribe is such an important resourcefulness.

Leading rising to Yule, we enjoyed visual perception "The Years of Diabetes Christmas" by @mom_of_t1d_2016 on Instagram to bring us some smiles and holiday head-shakes, too…

When you have a admired one with diabetes who happens to work in law enforcement, life can a be untrusty symmetry. We enjoyed this video blog by a Texas D-Wife whose husband was diagnosed with T1D recently in September, after initially organism misdiagnosed with type 2.

The Fear of Complications is always lurking when you live with diabetes, even when our lives are being complicated by factors otherwise the disease (sigh). T1D peep Amber Clour at Diabetes Daily Grind recounts a recent experience about that looming fear.

OK, we can't exactly escape to a day without diabetes, but this D-Mom (whose middle son of deuce-ac boys has T1D) shares a news report of trying to "break up with diabetes" — if just for a bit. Turn back out her post over at the Mum of Type 1 blog.

Political science with a diabetes twist is what we have in the latest episode of the Diabetics Doing Things podcast past Surcharge Howe. This round, Rob chats with North Star State-supported diabetes #insulin4all proponent Quinn Nystrom, who's decided to run for Congress in 2020 (and also recently announced on social media her employment). Congrats multiplication two, Quinn!

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Wrapping up happening a festive note, we smiled at this Beyond Type 1 post on Instagram showing forth a vacation-decorated insulin seedcase with matching multicolored fingernails. Thanks for sharing that, Alice (@alice.in.type.wonderland)!

Thanks to complete for great posts this month, and throughout 2019. Course, we can't wait to see what the Doctor has in store for 2020!