Years ago there was a fabulous television commercial for Staples. The Christmas song is playing (sing along with me), It’s the most wonnnnn-derrrrr-fullll tome of year…..” and of course the camera pulls back to revel parents gleefully shopping for back to school supplies while showing the kids’ dour faces. Click here for the commercial. That […]
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This picture is something only a parent will understand. This is a picture only a parent could possibly grasp. For the last 12,327,840 minutes of our lives, this door was our life-saver for our children since Kaitlyn was diagnosed on September 26, 1992 and then Rob on March 20th, 2009. For 12,327,840 of the preceding minutes, […]
My mother used to say that saying all the time….still does in fact. A ‘skiff’ is a small boat, and it actually has a few meanings; the word ‘IF’ is not a skiff, and we are not on a boat ride……IF is a futile look at something that is already gone. Gone, so stop wasting […]
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I am SO Scared.
Scared. I am amazed how that reaction the first time we took Kaitlyn home from the hospital is still with us today. But that word scared, has a new meaning than it did on September 26, 1992; when at the age of two, our lives were force-fed a new definition of normal. People look at […]
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Do You Let Guilt Close Your Road???
Let’s be very clear on something, that spreads like wildfire in our lives, when it comes to diabetes. Guilt. Guilt is a very dangerous phenomena in our world and we all need to be very careful at its existence. We will do some things wrong. Our kids will do some things wrong. But if diabetes was […]
There is complication of diabetes (well, diagnosis of any disease, really) that is as real as low blood sugar…….and that complication is depression. As Dr. William Polonsky once said, “I would be concerned if someone does not show some signs of depression after diagnosis”. I have written about this before but it’s always worth repeating and […]