I'm the momma of two boys, C and E.
My oldest, C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (July 2009) and celiac disease (Sept 2009) at the age of 10 and pumps with the Animas OneTouch Ping. In December 2011, he received his 4-month-old Diabetic Alert Dog in-training.
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Last night we couldn’t shake the lows, or maybe the “too-low-for-bed”s. A 65 at bedtime got 24 carbs of ice cream. 3o minutes later a 59 got a juice box. 20 min later he was 96. Cool, removed pump and he took a shower. Came out 40 minutes later bg 87. I lowered his pump to [...]
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E is preoccupied with diabetes. He does not have it himself, but it is obviously in his face all the time and he’s clearly soaking up everything. He talks about it a lot and he has a lot of knowledge of it all. The other night my cousin came over with her 2 1/2 year [...]
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I’m averaging 3-4 phone calls from C a day from school telling me every reason under the sun why he’s not feeling well and needs to come home. I work, mind you. And my work gave me more hours back two weeks ago. So far I have not been able to work these extra hours [...]
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Today we were supposed to go to a JDRF event, but C wanted to go to a friend’s birthday party instead. This was really hard for me. He’s definitely at an age (and has been for quite some time) that it’s very normal to drop your child off at a party and come pick them [...]
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I’m so tired. I’m tired because I can’t sleep. Since I don’t sleep, I’m too tired to get hungry and I forget meals. Then I get a cold. Ugh. Sometimes I get so stressed about C and making he’s healthy and eating the right amount of good food minus the gluten that I realize I [...]
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home a week and things are going pretty well. I’m feeling a lot less emotional and moving on. Life’s close to normal. The scheduling with meals at the same time every day might be the hardest part for me right now. I’m still so darn tired and I have to stay up until 9:00 to [...]
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Two days home and it’s getting more and more stressful! AGH! I had to call the hospital today to get advise from (calmed down by) a nurse. We went to the movie theater today though and all went well. I’m trying to make sure I leave the house. I could be a hermit and be [...]
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