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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
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The day before Charlie was to begin playing ice hockey for the first time, we went to the rink to break in his new skates and get a little practice in.
As it is with just about everything we do, decisions need to be made regarding Charlie's diabetes. Do we adjust basals? Maybe. Does he skate with pump on or pump off? What do we do with his testing supplies? I didn't want to hold the bag while skating the whole time yet I couldn't leave it behind in a locker. I ended up stuffing my coat pockets with alcohol wipes, peanut butter crackers, a juice box, test strips, a pricker and the meter. With a camera, cell phone and keys also in my pockets, it's a wonder I was able to move at all.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: carbs hypoglycemia
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Susanne made it through Thanksgiving and then Christmas. She prepared both succulent meals with not even one nibble. Christmas cookies, butternut squash with apples and maple syrup, honey-glazed smoked ham with pears, cranberries and cinnamon. She even joked when our daughter Maeve was setting the table, telling her to set a straw for her instead of a fork and knife.
And now her first birthday with gastroparesis. At least last year she could stick a candle in a gluten-free brownie and make a wish. This year I got her vanilla birthday milkshake and held a single candle in my hand for her to blow out. The kids gathered around the faint yellow glow surrounding the Styrofoam cup like a force field and sang "Happy Birthday." It was mildly pathetic.
She misses food. Misses it very much. I miss having food with her.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
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I was stuffing Charlie’s smelly hockey equipment into his big hockey bag when I heard Susanne from the other room.
"So you’re gonna tell the coach about Charlie’s … and she paused.
"Bad gas? Yeah, I’ll let him know," I said.
"Diabetes," Charlie mumbled while picking up a 2-7 spare in Wii Bowling.
"Oh, right, diabetes."
Ice hockey season started on Sunday. How nice it would be to just throw him on the ice and say, "have fun" like all the other kids’ parents do - the biggest worry being a potential blister. For us, there’s just so much to think about. So much "strategery," as Will Ferrell would say in impersonating George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: diabetes bag
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The diabetes bag is relatively light but it weighs heavy upon us. We panic when we lose sight of it like it's one of our children lost in a food store. It is soft and black with pictures of rockets on it. It contains about 13 alcohol wipes, a meter with a blurry screen, two vials of test strips, a white pricker with a tiny burgundy blood stain on the tip, about a dozen light-blue lancets, a tube of cake gel, Glucagon, two 15-carb apple juice boxes, a granola bar, a bag of Goldfish crackers and a pair of my black underwear???
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: ice hockey with diabetes
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As parents of children with diabetes, we are constantly being challenged with difficult decisions to make.
Charlie has wanted to play ice hockey for over a year now. He lives for hockey. He mimics the moves he sees on television from professional hockey players, pretending to stop on a dime and spray ice on the hard-wood floors. He sets up little hockey figurine players and simulates game situations. When he's not doing that, he plays hockey on his Playstation. And when he's not doing that, he and I play indoor knee hockey in his bedroom where he repeatedly takes ferocious slap shots into my groin. It's great fun. The kid loves hockey, is what I'm tryin' to say.
The waiting was finally over. I knew how excited he was for this moment, so I didn't want to screw it up on my end. I came with a simple plan:
1. Feed him lunch before he plays
2. Disconnect pump
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