Diabetes Anxieties Where There Should Be None

July 31, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

While diabetes doesn’t take a day off, I am in regards to a diabetes blog post that is – well mostly – I mean diabetes does have a way of sneaking into just about everything. I went today for my first boob squish. Turning 40 isn’t all about black balloons and jokes about being over […]

Normies

July 28, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

Who is a ‘normie’? Basic answer – a person whose pancreas produces insulin AND their body knows how to use it. Based on this basic answer anyone who has Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes or LADA is not a normie. I’m a normie. I wish I wasn’t but only because I’d like to take […]

It’s Not You – It’s It

July 24, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

For at least the last three weeks my middles has been high. Above 200 almost consistently. So this is the end – the real end of the honeymoon stage. He was diagnosed almost a year ago – Aug 1st of 2013. A day that will live in infamy along with Feb 7, 2007 (Sugarboy’s diagnosis […]

Taken Daily As Needed

July 23, 2014.Reading time 10 minutes.

So far this summer my daughter had two friends visit from CA, I took the kids and the dogs to CA to visit friends, my youngest had his first sleep-over in CA and diabetes was an asshat – not once but twice at two different sleep-overs, I was bitten by my cat while at the […]

Wherever You Go, There You Are

July 2, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

Hi my name is Tina and I have been a Dmom for over 7 years. My last cry was Saturday. Diabetes meet-ups are wonderful. While I have never been part of a 12 step program I have seen meetings in movies. I imagine those who attend such meetings feel a similar longing for understanding and […]