Happy Birthday, AmyT!
Today is the anniversary of the birth of our fearless leader, AmyT
In honor of this momentous occasion, I, her loyal assistant editor and Gal Friday, have taken over for the day to organize a special tribute to this fabulous woman, who has provided us with countless reports of late-breaking diabetes news and represented the patient community with candor, integrity and pizzazz The DOC certainly wouldnt be the same without her!
People often ask me how I met Amy, and honestly I feel like Ive always known Amy! We were among the first bloggers, way back in the spring of 2005, exploring the vast and uncharted territory of the Internet Now its 2011 and Im having a blast working with Amy here at DiabetesMine, reporting on all things diabetes She is sweet, spunky, whip-smart, and very opinionated And yes, shes a very good boss, too But more important than that: shes a good friend I hope to celebrate many birthdays with her in the years to come!
To join me in the celebration, Ive invited DiabetesMines two newest contributors, Wil and Haidee, to share some special birthday wishes:
For AmyT T is for Terrific! by Wil Dubois
It was a dark and stormy night Oh Wait Actually, it was a pleasant sunny afternoon in March of 2005 I’d had internet for several years, but rarely used it But now I had Type 1 Diabetes and no one around here seemed to know much about it So I starting Goggling it Again and again For many months I found nothing but crap on the internet about diabetes Then on that pleasant day in March, I found a crazy, skinny girl who was writing Dr Seuss diabetes
Round and round and round it goes, and where it stops could be my toes I’d like to keep mine Yes, that’s wise I’ll keep my nerves and feet and eyes
It took me two, maybe four seconds to fall in love with her Her voice was fresh Different She was funny And smart And she was one of my kind I wasn’t the only adult dx’d type 1 in the world after all Amy’s words were like a life buoy, thrown to a drowning man in storm-tossed seas We emailed back and forth over the months and years that followed and became good friends
And then came the first Roche Summit And walking into the lobby of the hotel, straight from the airport, I recognized Amy the second I saw her for the first time And she rocked every bit as much as I knew she would And now, what seems like a hundred years later, but is really only forty-three thousand shots and fingersticks since that day in March, I get to work with her at her wonderful website that so changed my life
Diabetes a blessing? Not many people would think so But for me? Hell yeah I’m a hundred times blessed to have diabetes, and to have friends like Amy T
Happy Birthday, Amy!!
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