A Lesson In Parenting

October 8, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Parenting lessons come at us in many ways. Some lessons are from friends or colleagues who have ‘been there, done that’. Some lessons are overt as with our own mothers or mother-in-laws that come to help with a new baby, especially the first baby. Some parenting lessons are learned by observing or experiencing ‘bad parenting’ […]

Sad, Happy, Screwed

December 5, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

So Middles received his first Humalog insulin pen yesterday. I must say I love Novalog but the Huma pen is Awesome looking. He was beyond excited. Even Sweetstuff said she’d consider MDI again based on the Huma pen. That is the part that makes me sad and happy at the same time. It’s sad that […]

Glucagon? What’s That?

December 2, 2013.Reading time 16 minutes.

I should be grocery shopping. My poor kids lunches were pathetic because of my lack of grocery shopping yesterday. No regrets we were having fun at the beach. Still a bagel with cream cheese, banana and slim jim is not exactly the lunch my kids were each hoping for. I should be cleaning my house. […]

Oh – He Had It Bad

September 13, 2013.Reading time 14 minutes.

Contrary to what John Q. Public believes there are no levels of severity with Diabetes. Wearing an insulin pump does not mean the pwd has it worse than another pwd. Last night was Back To School night at my sons middle school. It isn’t really a time to meet the teachers and have a conference. […]

Let Them Take Insulin.

June 1, 2013.Reading time 8 minutes.

It’s a good thing only kids who have one or more parents with medical licenses get diabetes. Wait – what? News flash – most kids diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes do not have parents in the medical profession. Yet somehow we (parents of children diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes) learn (very quickly I might add) […]