Sharing Is Fun, It’s What We Like To Do

Today is Day 4 of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge Today’s challenge: Create a “care page” – a list of your best resources that someone who is newly diagnosed could go to when starting to advocate for themselves or a loved one.  Have I mentioned how incredibly disorganized I am? Being so disorganized is […]

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The 5 (oops 13) Things You Should Know

Today is Day 2 of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge. Still not signed up – what are you waiting for? There are millions (or 26 according to how many poor souls follow my blog) of readers waiting to hear your story. Start HERE – you are only a day late. Todays Prompt: Introduce your […]

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Shenanigans at TCOYD

Registration for  TCOYD (Take Control of Your Diabetes) $25 Gas to get me and a local D-mom friend to/from the conference $14 DOC – meet-ups at the conference – PRICELESS After writing this post I realized it is really long – I hope you read it and check out some of the links but here […]

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WTFedness

Yesterday a FWD (Friend with diabetes) posted on a social media site about a low blood sugar before dinner. She included the phrase “WTFedness”. I didn’t find her low humorous but the phrase “WTFedness” cracked me up and I told her as much. Diabetes has been frustrating the crud outta me lately. Unexplained stubborn highs […]

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The Tip of The Iceberg

We recently celebrated Sugarboy’s 6th diaversary (anniversary of the day he was diagnosed with diabetes). Why do we celebrate such a thing? We celebrate life. Sugarboy was in DKA at diagnosis (diabetes ketoacidosis – very serious and dangerous – life threatening actually).  We spent 5 nights in the hospital getting Sugarboy better and learning how […]

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