Dear Reader,
When you or a family member lives with diabetes, you know it’s a 24/7 battle. You know that often the emotional struggle is harder than…
Category: Living
The LAUSD is not properly designed to, nor can it handle children with diabetes. We learned this the hard way when the district nursing office called to tell us that Type 1 diabetes does not require full time nursing care at school.
My experience babysitting Noah not only taught me new things about managing my own care, but it also gave me a newfound respect for the parents of children with diabetes (including my own).
Dex Share meant that—if our entire family was home and our son went high or low—two cell phones and the Dex receiver would sound their alarms, sparking red alerts from every room. If that was contributing to my anxiety, what was it doing to my seven-year-old son?
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I woke up the next day to a new life. My face was a mess. My body was cracked and broken and bruised and hurt. But my heart... I don’t know how to explain it except to say that it was pouring rain outside my hospital window, but the sky had never looked more beautiful.
I began to think of my son as a patient rather than a child, my child. I could rattle off his last sugar reading, his 14-day sugar average...
Single with diabetes. I sleep with a different brand of glucose tablets every night. Don’t judge.
Diabetes is learning to be careful about googling your disease.
Diabetes is hearing about other people's fear of needles. And love of desserts. And hemp seed treatments. And footless, blind diabetic great aunts.
For me time stopped on February 3, 2010 when my 13 year old son, Jesse, suddenly passed away due to type 1 diabetes. So instead of being a 19 year old young man today, he is still 13, alive only in our minds and our hearts. I wonder frequently who my son would be today – who I would be today – if he were still here.