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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
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I've made some bad judgment calls in my past.
There was the time I jumped off the roof of my house in 1983.
The time I used sunblock to burn mine and my girlfriend's initials onto my skin inside a giant heart across my back in 1984. Hello, skin cancer!
And who can forget the 6-foot-long gigantic snow penis on the front lawn of our suburban home in the winter of 1985.
And now this. The worst idea ever.
Bunk beds.
Getting up every night at ungodly hours to test Charlie's blood sugar hasn't been difficult enough for the past seven plus years. Just to make things a little more challenging, we've made the brilliant decision to get bunk beds for the boys. And yes, as the older brother, Charlie is on the top bunk.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Emotions Real Life
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"A little bit of OCD isn’t necessarily such a bad thing for a person with diabetes."
So said the therapist to Susanne on the phone as she made an appointment for us to see him next week.
He comes highly recommended from Children’s Hospital. The fact that he’s type 1 is an added bonus. Well, for us. Not so much for him.
Charlie is a really good, sweet kid, but there is no denying, he is exhausting. It often feels like there is eight of him. It’s like that bad Michael Keaton movie – Multiplicity. Charlies are everywhere, wanting something ALL. THE. TIME.
Top of the stairs – "Can I have lunch now?"
In the bathroom – "Can I have a chocolate egg?"
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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Despite my initial rant, Charlie’s week of hockey camp was great. He had a blast. Once we settled into the routine and got the lay of the land, everything went more smoothly. After a week of tagging along with the hockey counselors all over the Princeton campus and dealing with some very badly behaved 7 and 8 year olds, I’m happy to get back to my normal life. Ha! Normal!
As they should be, the other kids were curious about Charlie’s pump. During the week, several kids asked Charlie what it was. Charlie educated a few and at other times, he’d defer to me.
"Does that hurt him?" one kid asked after I tested Charlie’s blood sugar.
Charlie held his finger out, accepted the prick with no reaction and then pulled his hockey mask over his head and darted out of the locker room toward the ice before I could even answer the boy.
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