It’s Happening

C’s application was approved.  He will be receiving a Diabetic Alert Dog!! This is such exciting news.  We’ve struggled for a while now with him having trouble feeling lows and not feeling a hint of a symptom of highs.  He craves freedom and I want him to have it more than anything.  He’s 12 years [...]

D.A.D.

I took a big step today.  A really exciting step.  I sent in C’s application for a Diabetic Alert Dog (D.A.D.).  Please help us say a prayer, think good thoughts, whatever you do to help him get approved and start moving forward on the process.

Helping the Emotional Side

I’ve been mentioning lately what’s been going on with C.  He’s felt pretty normal and accepting of his diabetes and most aspects of celiac disease from the get-go. When he started basketball, I wanted to lower his basal while he played.  But C wanted to step outside to pull his pump out and make the [...]

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 [...]

Car Ribbons

You know those ribbon magnets everyone puts on their car to show their support for some cause or another?  Well, I try not to be one that does something that everyone else does, but I do have a ribbon magnet.  It’s green and it says Celiac Awareness.  I decided to put it on my car [...]

How Do You Deal With This?! and rambling

C called me from school this morning.  He felt low in class and walked up to the health office (all the way across campus).  He tested at 59.  The health tech allowed him to call me before taking his carbs.  I told him to have 6 glucose tabs (24 carbs).  Ya, it might’ve sounded like [...]

reteaching the teachers

I’ve probably written it before, maybe even yesterday.  If not, everyone around me’s sure heard about it.  My son is alone with his diabetes at school.  He’s cool with it, but I get infuriated everytime a situation comes up.  He goes to the health office at lunch to test, count, bolus.  Then he’s on his way.  [...]

Pump Training

we just finished our training session with the lady from Animas.  I’m more excited than ever.  My mom joined in so she’s caught up on how it all works now. She was really impressed, too.  Every time I try to explain how fabulous it is, I don’t think she gets it.  I think she does [...]

overwhelming frustration

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 [...]