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NEWSBREAK: SERIOUSLY!!!! Yes…Again. A Child Dies. Missed Diagnosed T1D

This was taken from their “Go Fund Me Page”. For the loss of my nephew, Kedrick “Santana” Callaway He was diagnosed wrong at a hospital, to find out it wasn’t a stomach virus… to find his sugar was too high for him which caused him to unexpectedly pass away. He was born: 2/11/03 He died: 4/8/16 […]

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NEWSBREAK: DEXCOM RECALL classified as most serious by FDA

If you use the products discussed below, you should have received a letter from the Dexcom folks regarding the following.  This is copied exactly as written from the FDA page and the link to the actual page is at the bottom.  Please take heed to what is being said.  Devices are mechanical.  From time to time […]

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12,327,840 Minutes that Only a Parent of a T1D Child Will Understand.

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, […]

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If ‘IF’ was a Skiff, We Would All Be on a Boat Ride.

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 […]