Manny's Diabetes Corner

PLEASE HELP TUDIABETES
Help us reach our to more people touched by diabetes and continue to raise awareness about diabetes

I am an Electrical Engineer (EE). I first went to school in Venezuela and then went to Cornell University (in New York state), where I obtained my M.Eng. also in EE. Still I have found my true professional love to lie in the web space, so I eventually became a Web Product Manager.

Since January 2008, I live with my wife and son in Palo Alto, CA. Here I used to work at Ning.com, the company that offers the Social Networking platform that TuDiabetes runs on. Since late April 2008 I am running the Diabetes Hands Foundation, a non-profit we created with the goal of having no people with diabetes feel alone and people without diabetes learning more about what it's like to live with diabetes.

I was diagnosed with diabetes in late 2002 (initially diagnosed and treated as type II) and formally starting shooting insulin (effectively called a "type I") in 2003. I got on the insulin pump (Minimed 515) in July 2005. I am constantly working on exercising more: that is my constant struggle. In 2007, I learned that I actually have type 1.5 diabetes!

Since September 2007, I started writing a monthly column called "Hola Diabetes" for dLife in English and Spanish, aimed at the Latino community. In May 2008, I started writing the column "Diabetes Hacker" in MyDiabetesCentral.com.