When The Care Giver Needs Care...
Shoot! I thought I was going to go through some serious surgery and chemotherapy. I swore I had lung cancer. Well, breast cancer that had metastasized into the lungs. Turns out it was only breast cancer. That was such a relief. My doctor in Chicago thought it was just Ductile Carcinoma In Situ – the Stage 0 one or something like that. We showed the scans to a friend in Australia and he knew there something more. He saw the invasive tumor which the people here only saw after m
Trick or Treat? Halloween with T1 on Board
Halloween---a time for scary ghost stories, horror movies, and haunted houses. That's enough to put fear into the hearts of many people. But for parents of children with Type 1 diabetes the scariest part of Halloween is not the tricks but the treats. How can we keep our T1 on an even keel with all that candy around? Some parents choose to avoid trick or treating. Some give out toys or stickers instead of candy. My goal as Kate's mom, since the day she was diagnosed with T1
We Are Fierce
Is there a month that just doesn’t seem to agree with you? July is that month for me. Our wedding anniversary is June 30th and we usually plan a celebratory vacation around this time of year. A little over 2 years ago in July, my beautiful 11 year old daughter at the time was diagnosed with T1D. My husband and I were in Mexico celebrating our anniversary and a new job promotion he had just received that would we require us to move out of state. We were on cloud nine for this
