Tag: #DSMA

I have read, over the years, of people saying the following; “I look at diabetes coming into our household as a blessing”.  Over the years I have also read of the reasons people stated that diabetes was a ‘blessing’: “I have met such wonderful people”. “We would have been divorced.” “It made us all become […]

People just do not understand.  Very few do, in fact. When I have to tend to my child, YOUR timing is not my timing; in fact, and we had to learn this, our timing IS NOT our timing.  If our child needs tending to, our world stops.  Period. I do not care if you get frustrated because […]

Dear Diabetes, I know it has been a while since we corresponded, there was no need.  But you thought you would win recently and it opened the door to once again remind you a little bit on who we are……..in case you had forgotten. We are a family of resolve.  We are a family of […]

Moms are real special people. She was about six years old when her dad took her shopping for a Mother’s Day gift.  “Pick out something, but make sure she will like it.”  This was the only charge given by the dad. She looked and looked, and already at this young age, it was clear that […]

Wonderful and talented Wendy Rose shares today in her CANDY HEARTS blog that her child will be entering a research project regarding Ed Damiano’s Bionic Pancreas. Do you know what that means? I ask you that because as Wendy describes the excitement of what her child will experience, it is also a research project.  And […]