A Tribute to Kathy Putzier

It seems like these days, half of my posts are tributes (actually, its true, though I have a few others mixed in), and today, unfortunately, will be another one. This one is for Kathy Putzier. Her sister Joan Meece shared the news on Facenbook on Wednesday, August 17, 2016, so I presume the actual date was sometime around that, although details are still trickling in right now.One irony, which I think perhaps Kathy would have appreciated, is the fact that another person also named Kathy Putzier who was also from the Twin Cities area passed away around the same time, although the other Kathy was 82 years old, so it definitely wasn ' t the same woman that the diabetes community knew and loved, as the Kathy Putzier we knew was just 63 years old.Early d-bloggers knew Kathy first as " Minnesota Nice " (not a bad term based on my knowing her!) and her blog was known as " Purple Haze " (seehttp://kathy4762.blogspot.com/ for her archived posts). In 2012, Kathy decided to devote her time to other pursuits, so she decided to stop blogging, although I believe she remained pretty active on TuDiabetes, which was the place she decided to continue her online diabetes work.Like me, Kathy was one of the earlier members of the d-blogging community as a person with Type 1 diabetes, and many in the Minneapolis area includingScott K. Johnson and others had met up her quite a few times. No doubt, their sense of loss is bigger than mine. But a few years ago, I went to Minne...
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