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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Charlie took the cookie from the cookie jar. Or from the diabetes bag, as it were.
At least one mystery has been solved in a month that has been absolutely atrocious on Charlie's blood sugars.
There is a reason why Charlie's lunch blood sugars have increased significantly in the past two weeks. He confessed sadly yesterday to the crime of mid-morning snacking while at school.
He didn't get an F on a math test. He didn't push a classmate. He wasn't disrespectful to a teacher. He just ate food with carbohydrates in it.
"I won't do it anymore."
"I was planning on stopping," he added, as if trying to kick heroin.
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Categories: Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Checking blood sugars in non-d kids
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Tonight I took all three girls to my father's house because my step-brother and his wife were up for a visit. It was a nice night, low-key and relaxed. Until I realized that The Bug, who is almost 18 months old, was sucking back water like it was going out of style. She also peed thru two diapers in the course of two and a half hours.
Of course my brain immediately went to diabetes. I'll be checking her first thing in the morning, since she'd been snacking pretty much since we walked in the door.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: Non-D Kids
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My two little girls now have a stomach bug. I've been going nuts, washing everything in hot water, in an attempt to keep Olivia from catching it.
It's horrible when the little girls get sick. Boo, who is three, is ok about it - she thinks it's pretty funny when she pukes (strange, strange girl) but The Bug is miserable. She doesn't get it and she feels terrible. I don't much enjoy it, either. Cleaning up puke is enough to make me hurl, too.
Dealing with real people sickness on top of diabetes, though, really sends me around the bend. It's easy enough to clean up pukey babies but dealing with Olivia's diabetes when she's puking is a little more challenging.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food In the News
Tags: Prevention possibility?
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A new study in the JAMA indicates that omega-3 fatty acid supplements may keep at-risk kids from developing type 1 diabetes. The study found that kids who did eat fish, nuts or other sources of omega-3 fatty acids had a 55% less chance of developing diabetes. (I linked to the National Review of Medicine site because JAMA charges you a $15 fee to view their articles. Ouch.)
Sometimes I'm not sure what to think about these studies. Olivia was diagnosed when she was not quite three years old, so I suppose I could have given her Omega-3 supplements. I guess I'll have to figure out how to incorporate them into the two little girls' diets - I don't know that they'll eat fish and that's an expensive food to waste if they don't like it. Plus the whole mercury thing...honestly, some days I wonder if anything is safe to eat any more.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
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So now I don't know what to do. I caught Olivia in a couple of blatant, non-diabetes related lies tonight and my whole thread of hope that it might be a meter issue vanished like the pathetic puff of smoke it was.
Is it appropriate to punish a kid for lying about her diabetes stuff? Part of me is really inclined to because it's not just failure to remember, it's outright lying. But the other part of me, the part that's a total pushover at times, is hesitant. I think I need to be harder on her than I have been, but I'm not sure how hard to be. I don't want to come down like a ton of bricks, but I don't want her thinking she can constantly pull one over on me.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2
Tags: cause finding a cure JDRF walk
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I completed my first JDRF Walk this morning! It was very exciting. Despite having no idea what to expect, it was fun and went off without much of a glitch.
My final Team Lindsey consisted of three other people and myself. Two girls, two guys. Two diabetics, two non-D's. It was a fun group.
We made it the whole 5k walking at a fairly brisk pace. The two diabetics held steady with our blood sugars. I ended the walk at a lovely 136 after eating a small (38 carb) breakfast with no bolus and dialing down the basal by 0.25.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: non-diabetic siblings
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"I don't put the pillow over my head because it's so loud," my daughter Maeve clarifies.
"It's because I get so scared for Charlie and I feel so bad for him."
That's Maeve talking about site changes.
Watching your sibling experience that type on anguish every few days can't be easy. For almost every child out there with diabetes, there's a little brother or a big sister (or vice versa) witnessing some pretty horrendous stuff. Sure, repetition dilutes the ugliness and my non-diabetic kids have certainly been desensitized. For example, they'll often continue watching television – getting up only to increase the volume - while in the background their brother is begging and screaming for mercy. It's a bit surreal when you step back and think about it.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: Checking blood sugars in non-d kids
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"Mom, I've been peeing a lot today. Prolly five times since we got home," No. 1 says to me as I'm lying on the bed counting the seconds until the kids go to bed. Yes, it's been a stressful, well, five days, and I can't wait to go back to work. But I digress.
No. 1 has been "complaining" quite a bit lately about his need to frequently see a man about a horse. He doesn't know that those comments make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. My head goes right to worst-case scenario, although reality does tell me that he has no obvious symptoms on the diabetes checklist.
Sure, he's going potty more often than he thinks he should, but he's not drinking obsessively, he's not overly tired (usually beats me out of bed in the morning, in fact), doesn't have an insatiable hunger, nada. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: illness ketones
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I think he's just about had enough.
If I went through what he goes through, I suppose I would too.
Two days of low ketones that wouldn't go away no matter how hard we prayed for mercy. Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Two days home from school. Maybe a third tomorrow. High blood sugars and ketones that proved to be an omen for one hell of a nasty cold.
He's had enough of the long, sharp needles in his ass and the tiny sharp needles in his fingers. Our constant handling of his pump like he's some sort of appliance. Out of defiance yesterday, he wouldn't let me near his pump because he couldn't eat what he wanted to eat. He took a stand against the injustice.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children
Tags: tell
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He stood in the doorway as I put on my shoes and lifted my jacket over my shoulders. He was wearing an "I Love NY" t-shirt and red shorts with his insulin pump clipped just off-center - tubing dangling haphazardly and looping like a roller coaster.
"In school we made these bowls out of clay and we took leaves and we pressed them down into the bowl …"
He spoke.
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