I find it extremely interesting that no matter how much we store in our kids’ rooms for night-time lows; no matter how many juice boxes, gels, cookies, glucose tablets, and whatever else we store; the counter in the morning reveals that a blood-sugar-low led them to waking up and making their way to the kitchen. It […]
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Do you ever get overwhelmed? Diabetes. Sometimes it just kicks us straight in the butt….doesn’t it? Just when we think we have everything under control ( a term in itself that never rings true), something undoubtedly happens that pulls us back to reality. This happen to me recently and when the episode was over I […]
CGMs. Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are fabulous devices. They not only remotely give you an idea on your blood glucose number they also indicate where one is trending (blood sugar rising and/or dropping). The new Dexcom G4 Platinum looks to be a modern, thinner, easier to read, and more accurate CGM. The Dexcom website states […]
To this day, the BEST idea about how to handle Halloween still rests with our friends in Charles Schulz’s character-land of Peanuts. Agreed. Your kids can still eat some of the candy even with their diabetes. Agreed. There probably is not a time that Halloween did not come and go that our kids did not go […]
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Will it Ever Get Better?????
I read a lot. I read many comments from parents. I read many comments from people with diabetes. Many times my heart breaks because they fret over a high or a low and it becomes a hurdle 50 feet high. You know in baseball, every player makes an out more than they get a hit. […]