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November 21st, 2008
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Boo was seen by the pediatrician today. I was afraid I was going to have to fight with the guy to get him to take me seriously, but he sort of agreed with me. He debated doing an a1c test on her, but thought that it might be inconclusive since, if she does have diabetes, she'd be in the very early stages of it. He reeled off the symptoms (as though I've never seen them before) and said that since the only one she had was peeing a lot, he wasn't that worried. Well, dood, I'M worried and I'm the mama so run a test, do something. The conclusion is that I'm going to test Boo before every meal and at the two- and three-hour post-prandial marks. If there is a pattern of sugars over 200, I'm to call back. He said within a week, but if I see it for more than two days, I'm calling back. Screw that.


It's freaking me out a bit to think that I might now have two kids with diabetes. It's REALLY freaking me out that if Boo does have it, she's almost exactly the same age that Olivia was at diagnosis. You can bet that I'll be watching The Bug (the baby of the house) like a hawk from now on.


My head is a bit scattered and is running down a million different paths. I just want an answer, one way or the other. I hate this waiting and waiting to see.



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Julia
Julia lives behind the Tofu Curtain, in the Pioneer Valley, in Western Massachusetts. It's a nice place. She likes it there. Her eldest daughter, Olivia, has type 1 diabetes. She's also 13. It's a real toss-up as to which is more difficult -- the diabetes or the teen-age drama. (Read More)

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