{"id":132,"date":"2010-02-28T22:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buckroth.wordpress.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-02-28T22:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:18:58","slug":"tcoyd-huh-what-the-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"TCOYD.  Huh?  What the heck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article will briefly concentrate on a &#8220;TOCYD&#8221; <strong><em>event<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 TCOYD\u00a0is the acronym for &#8220;Taking Care of Your Diabetes.&#8221;\u00a0 I was one of 1,5oo\u00a0participants to be able to part take in this event that was <em>held for the first time in Sacramento County, California<\/em>, on Saturday, February 27, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>This is a non-profit organization that was inspired\u00a0by Ken Facter, MD, MBA, JD.\u00a0\u00a0Not until 1995 did Dr. Facter&#8217;s associate\/colleague, Dr. Steven Edelman, envision a &#8220;patient-oriented educational conference&#8221;\u00a0to totally involve and encompass the lives of <strong><em>all <\/em><\/strong>diabetics and their non-diabetic significant others.\u00a0 Having met Dr. Edelman, the man exudes hope, confidence and a positive will toward appreciation and understanding of this disease.<\/p>\n<p>Why was this &#8216;conference&#8217; never brought to the Sacramento, CA, area before now?\u00a0 I do not know.\u00a0\u00a0 As much as any other area around our globe, diabetics and their non-diabetic counterparts are <em>massive<\/em> in numbers.<\/p>\n<p>I first learned about this event\/organization through a mailed flyer back in early January, 2010.\u00a0 The JDRF\u00a0(Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) notified me.\u00a0 How do they know of my existence?\u00a0 That&#8217;s easy to answer.\u00a0 Having been diabetic for\u00a0fifty years, the JDRF\u00a0is inescapable in most aspects related to diabetes to include locating people.\u00a0 After reading and re-reading this two-page brochure, I decided it would be worth my while in time and money for a Saturday.\u00a0 Enough time was\u00a0alloted to plan my busy schedule to parttake in this event.\u00a0 I also borrowed some loose change from my &#8216;piggy bank&#8217; (a glass jar) just-in-case.<\/p>\n<p>Over all, I am glad I participated.\u00a0 It is always nice, comforting, to meet and hear people discuss the cumbersome and intricate facts involved with living this disease.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><em>Diabetes\u00a0remains unappreciated and misunderstood<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If interested, please research &#8220;Taking Care of Your Diabetes.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Events are held across the United States to\u00a0include Hawaii.\u00a0 Perhaps in your travels, you may want to learn more about attending such a learned and upbeat affair.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take care!\u00a0 AR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article will briefly concentrate on a &#8220;TOCYD&#8221; event.\u00a0\u00a0 TCOYD\u00a0is the acronym for &#8220;Taking Care of Your Diabetes.&#8221;\u00a0 I was one of 1,5oo\u00a0participants to be able to part take in this event that was held for the first time in &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}