Something very interesting happened recently. I was in Chicago through Sunday past, at an incredible event. During the event they did something pretty cool. They had a special drawing. The prizes were pretty significant with TVs and signed sports memorabilia. They asked all of the Veterans to stand up and come forward. Everyone was applauding […]
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Place three children next to each other and say one has diabetes, can you pick that one out? With no signs of any daily management tools can you tell the child who has diabetes? With no one to see you in the middle of the night pacing the floor and running a series of blood […]
I’m glad that no one ever stated to us that they did not know we had three children and thought we just had the two with T1D. It’s always been a fear of mine. To be honest, it lends itself to a question one must constantly ask……..is it that I/we are giving too much attention to […]
Have you ever stopped and actually tried to figure out how we do exactly what we do every day when dealing with our child’s diabetes? I mean, imagine yourself before diagnosis; did you ever think you would be doing what you are doing today? When the doctor ran down the list of all diabetes management […]
Every time I see an ’11’ I cannot help but think of the two towers in lower Manhattan. When it has a ‘September’ before it, it brings me back to a time of not only incredible pain but also incredible human spirit. That day, was today. I was there. I have often said that I […]
If you work with your hands long enough, you become calloused. If you have 3 kids, chances are when the first one dropped their binky, pacify, woot-woot from their mouth and it hit the floor; you cleaned it, sterilized it, got it cool again and gave it back to your child—when the third child dropped […]