I Get It Wrong Often

December 16, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

Last night my Middles, (13 year old teen boy) was over 400 before going to bed. He was 238 before dinner and bolused (used his insulin pump to deliver insulin into his body) for dinner with extra insulin to correct the high. That was 4 hours before he was going to bed. He was surprised […]

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’ […]

Whack A Mole

July 26, 2015.Reading time 9 minutes.

When my kids were younger I would take them to Chuck E Cheese often. We lived in Texas and the summers were hot so the days we didn’t hang by the pool we would hang out with the mouse. Yes it was a petri dish of germs. No I didn’t take hand sanitizer, might not […]

Random Encounters

June 18, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

It wasn’t the first time I met someone with a diabetes connection while in line to get a latte, probably won’t be the last. Last weekend the daughter and I were in target. After checking out we stopped by the Starbucks located inside Target. (How ingenious is it to have Starbucks inside Target? If only […]

Leg Transplant??

May 14, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

You’re Gonna Give Me Your Leg? Sweetstuff has had some really cruddy numbers the last few days. Pump is working fine – it’s her brain that is malfunctioning. In the last 72 hours Sweetstuff has forgotten to bolus for a meal 3 times resulting in numbers in the “Hi” range. She forgot twice to put […]