A few weeks after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, I spoke to the parents of the two young men who have played a huge role in entertaining the crowd at our walk. You see this family had to deal with their children being in the thick of it […]
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Diabetes. On September 25th, 1992, if you said that word to me it would mean nothing more than a disease within a list of thousands of diseases. On September 26th of the same year, the same word impacted my life as none other before or since. Diabetes. It comes out of nowhere to wreak havoc in […]
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A Life Gone……Reminds Me to LIVE!
As many people know, I lost my mom last week. Thank you to the SO MANY who shared their thoughts and prayers with us, they were all greatly appreciated and felt. My mom had a great life with her almost 92 years with 6 children, 23 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren. I’m very grateful for […]
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What a Super Hero Looks Like
I LOVE THIS PHOTO. Some pictures need no captions and if ever there was a photo of a fearless child…….this is it. Let me introduce you to Helen, a 5 year-old from Texas who loves to dance and was diagnosed just over a year ago. The photo was taken by Ivy Reyes, a friend […]
I consider myself someone who is, and has been, fairly active in all of my children’s lives; and have certainly been active pertaining to the youngest two and their diabetes. And in anything that I have done, I have always and in all ways known that it pales greatly to what their mom has done, […]
Clearly the way I was bought up, is much different from the way we bought up our own children, which I’m sure is even much different from today’s skills needed for parenting. How much of the way we were bought up plays a role in how we deal with the diabetes in our own house? […]