Sugar Surfing

04/09/2026

NO COST DIABETES EDUCATION WITH ME NEXT WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 AT 5PM NEAR TEMPLE, TEXAS.

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04/03/2026

Type 1 diabetes is now predictable. Blood tests are available to identify it long before it starts. How many of you have taken advantage of this?

03/07/2026

My handsome grandson Eli.

03/01/2026

Starting my 61st year today!

02/19/2026

Voting is ALWAYS about the future and what you think of the present situation. Today this civic action seems more important than in any of my previous ballots since I started voting in the 1970’s.

02/06/2026

My dear friend and “diabetes brother from a different mother” Joe Solowiejczyk RN, MSW, CDCES (author, educator and diabetes advocate) coined the phrase “dancing with the iLet” as a metaphor for success with a fully adaptive iLet bionic pancreas system. I created this image that captures the essence of his message. We will be conducting several on line and live presentations in the coming weeks about our patient’s iLet experiences. I will share those dates and locations as we get closer to them.

01/22/2026

Today, John Robert Navar and his wife Cheryl (from Corpus Christi) generously donated 50 T1D Barbies for the kids in our practice here at McLane Children’s Hospital. They have distributed 2,000 dolls so far to 17 states. They are currently on their way to Dallas to share more of them with Peds Endo groups there and in Fort Worth.
John and Cheryl would like to meet with senior executives at Mattel in California to discuss larger donations and even expanding the T1D doll universe.

If you have any contacts within Mattel, please contact John. He and Cheryl funded this current effort with a Go Fund Me page. Also please share this across the T1D social media universe.

12/21/2025

This morning’s elves location. They have excellent taste for classic vinyl and I definitely approve of the artist selection.

12/19/2025

New buttons arrived today. These will go to our Sugar Surfing kiddos in the practice and those getting their basic training!

12/19/2025

For anyone who was unable to attend the webinar I and diabetes superstar Joseph Solowiejczyk recently hosted on the Pediatric experience with the iLet Bionic Pancreas system, here is the link to the recorded event:

Stephen Ponder, MD, FAAP, CDCES is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the…