I  planned to post about signs and DKA today, but I read this post on a closed FB group for parents of T1 children, and it brought tears to my eyes. I don't often cry over T1 diabetes, because I have to be strong - for me and for my daughter. It was so beautifully … Continue reading I Want You To Know, But I Don’t – A Guest Post about Type 1

Most people do not understand that not all diabetes is the same. Most people make assumptionsabout diabetes – especially Type Onediabetes – based on their limited knowledge of Type 2 diabetes. First of all, there have always been 3 types of diabetes. In recent years, a 4th type– known as Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults … Continue reading Welcome to Diabetes 101

I was all set to use “Throwback Thursday” and the coming of Halloween to reminisce about Halloween days of old. But then I logged on this morning and found out that today is National CAT Day, and … how could I not tell you about all my pusses? So – I offer up two separate … Continue reading Two For the Price of One

When Ava was diagnosed at age 2, Owen was 6. They say that when a child is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes it affects the whole family. That we all will have to adjust to the “new normal.”  Back then, I often worried about how it all affected Owen – between the trauma of the … Continue reading Ramblings, Memories, and a Subliminal PSA

You know that saying, if I didn’t laugh, I’d cry. Sometimes frustration just gets the best of me, and I’ve been feeling like a slow-building implosion about to happen. That’s not today, particularly, ... just an overall sense of being over the last 7 days.I’ve been running kids like an ancillary running water to an … Continue reading A Comedy in Errors

The second party was getting underway, almost exclusively under the leadership of my charismatic and quite inebriated little brother. I found him upstairs in the kitchen, loudly pontificating on I-don’t-know-what to a 60-ish friend of Todd’s. At 6’ 1” and fully filled-out frame, my brother has the power to be intimidating, but if you know … Continue reading Two Parties On the Same Day – Part II

After last week’s rant over the condition of things in my house, where I all but shouted at Todd that I will NOT compromise my home to the conditions of others, I decided to lay down the law explain to the younger set the importance of thoughtfulness and cleaning up after oneself.  Not that we … Continue reading I Left Something For You

We have been so busy that I only just realized, at a birthday party for a neighbor’s son, that we moved back into this house two years ago to the day. Life continues to roll along like a runaway train, we are busier than a Compton ER, and have taken little more than a night … Continue reading Two Years Later

Omg, omg, O.M.G. This bitch has just burst, like a hot blister on the heel inside a new shoe. Days that start out aggravating for me generally progress from the minor annoyance of an unfortunate mosquito bite to full-blown, venom-infused tirades. The cat has been meowing for food all day, which I’ve given him, and … Continue reading We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program …