Marble Slab

As I may have mentioned many times before, we go to RedBrick Pizza every week or two for their delicious gluten free pizza. A few doors down from them is a Marble Slab Creamery.  A couple months ago I gave in and we stopped there for some dessert.  I explained C’s celiac disease.  I asked [...]

Team Party Time Again

Last night I received a mass-email from E’s soccer coach. He was telling us that he got coupons for free pizza from that same nightmare pizza place I spoke about before. Most teams locally have their party there because they give free pizza/drinks. I was torn about whether or not I tell the coach our [...]

I don’t FEEL like educating!

We don’t deal with too many people saying ignorant things or being rude or not understanding C’s autoimmune woes.  I just realized that maybe it’s because we’re not all that social.  We have such a small circle of people we’re around and it seems that a bunch of them have diabetes themselves or in their [...]

Not Welcome Here

So C’s basketball team had their end-of-season party tonight.  At a local pizza place.  Regular pizza. We considered not going, but I decided to take him anyways.  I called ahead and asked if they offered gluten-free pizza and was told no.  I told them my son’s team was coming in and he had celiac disease, [...]

D-Sib Day

Well, Alexis and Sherry have proclaimed today to be Siblings of Diabetes Day.  I figured I’d write about E, but have been so busy it hasn’t gotten done.  I’ve hardly even been on a computer.  Good thing is, it hasn’t been because of diabetes.  I’ve been working, playing with the kids, eating Thanksgiving dinner, going out, you know… [...]

Thankful for Our Team

When C was diagnosed with diabetes, the hospital told us we would follow-up with an endocrinologist at UCLA (an hour+ away) and we would go there quarterly.  Later they came in and told us we’d be seeing another doctor instead.  She was in our city but was not an endocrinologist.  She was a regular pediatrician, but [...]

Restrictions

I hate celiac disease.  I try so hard to convince people that C can eat whatever he wants with diabetes.  Then I have to explain that he can’t actually have that but that it’s not because of diabetes.  I think people are lumping them together most of the time and think he’s got one issue.  I’m [...]

responsibility

It seems lately (last couple of weeks) that we’ve had a LOT less of diabetes getting in our way.  Yes, a handful of (REALLY high) highs and obviously a handful or two or lows, but nothing that just jumps out and debilitates C or can’t get fixed easily.  I just knocked on wood.  Anyways, feels [...]

celiac-iversary

One year ago today, C ate his last piece of whole wheat toast for breakfast, skipped school in the morning and headed to his regular endocrinologist appointment.  That morning we got the results of his Celiac test and found out why he hadn’t gained much weight back after his diabetes diagnosis.  We realized why his [...]

Back To School

This morning we met with our school district nurse, the health tech and the psychologist at C’s new school.  I must say that immediately it was a refreshing change from last year’s staff. I showed up with seven plastic boxes of glucose tabs, juice boxes, test strips, etc.  Everything he ‘might need’ while he’s at [...]