Dear School,

So here’s my day so far and the email sent to the school (and district) today.  Blahhhhh Hi [School Psychologist] and [School Nurse], I’m just checking in to see if you were able to come up with any ideas at the meeting this morning about C’s education. I’m also wondering if independent studies of some [...]

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, [...]

The Look

My dad had a look when I was growing up.  I remember if you pissed him off real good his eyes used to look like he was going to turn into a werewolf and kill you.  It used to scare the shit out of me.  I was sure, growing up, that he might kill me [...]

It’s November.

Today is the beginning of Diabetes Awareness Month or National Diabetes Month or whatever it’s officially called.  I’ve been pumped up about it.  I’ve been looking forward to maybe doing like Nan did last year and posting a diabetes fact each day. Last week some asshole just shattered my enthusiasm for facebook in a pretty big way.  [...]

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 [...]

could be worse

Someone I work with was just asking me about C’s health issues.  I was explaining celiac disease and how it affects diabetes and how i believe that it was the untreated celiac that caused the diabetes and what a bummer that is.  He said something about how it’s nice that we have a diagnosis now and [...]

bad diabetics? seriously?

I just spoke to a friend of mine about a mutual friend who has type 1 diabetes.  She called him a “bad diabetic” and said it would probably be a good thing for him to spend time with me and maybe I’d rub off on him some.  This made my skin crawl.  I asked what [...]