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Since I often go into grueling detail when Charlie is going through a rough period of high blood sugars, it’s only right that I also share some good news for a change.

 

Charlie’s blood sugars have been near perfect for the last three or four days. To Lucy Van Pelt, happiness may be a warm puppy and to John Lennon, happiness may be a warm gun, but to me, happiness is knowing that Charlie’s blood sugars have been in the low 100s for hours and hours. Just as long periods of highs make me sick to my stomach, long periods of just-rights feels like nirvana. It can completely make my day and get me chirping with the birds.

 

It’s also nice to go into our quarterly endo visit, which is tomorrow, on a good note. I almost said, "on a high note." No way. No high note. I want a good A1c. Big money! No whammies!

 

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After my work function last week, my mom and I met at a resort to spend some quality girl time together. It was much needed for both of us as we haven't been able to spend a lot of time just the two of us doing the things we love to do since I moved four hours away. We went shopping, ate a lot of good food, got massages, and talked non-stop over the weekend.

 

We also had a few drinks in celebration of our vacation. Neither my mother or I drink to get drunk. We like to enjoy a glass of wine or a margarita socially, which is what we did. The first night, I had a glass of white wine with my salmon salad. It was delicious and my mother didn't say much.

 

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When I was in grade school, regardless of whether our Trick-or-Treat costumes were home-made or store-bought, whether we wore masks or make-up, our huge paper loot bags were accompanied by small orange milk cartons stamped with information from UNICEF -- The United Nations Children's Fund. Printed on the cartons were examples of what a small donation might do for a child in a third-world country -- a nickel, for example, might provide a child with a pencil and notebook for school; a dollar might vaccinate him against smallpox or polio; five dollars could get his town clean water. The following school day, our teachers would collect the milk containers. The local PTA would count up the money and submit the school's UNICEF donation for that year.

 

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Last Friday, I'd spent the day studying physics and packing my apartment. There was a lot on my mind...boys, school, the future, and my body. I'd been dealing with mega water retention that entire week. And I was so disgusted with my body.

 

I hadn't run in a week, so I decided to hop on the treadmill for a mile or two. To drench myself in sweat and forget there was a world outside the treadmill bubble. I ran, hard, thinking of graduate schools and the park trails of northern Texas. It was the kind of run where my mind leaves and my muscles take over.

 

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Look! on the skin
The symbol of what lies within.
Now turn red to tempt Snow White
To make her hungry for a bite...

 

--the Wicked Queen, Walt Disney's Snow White, 1937

 

There's nothing like a fresh fall apple. Crisp, juicy, sweet or tart, whatever your preference. Think of pick-your-own orchards, fresh apple pie, baked apples, candy apples, caramel apples, apple bobbing at Hallowe'en, Mrs. Prindable's chocolate-covered apples at Thanksgiving and Christmas...

 

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There's something to be said about Hallowe'en candy, and that is, that of it which I remember was largely crap.

 

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For Halloween, Charlie went as a record-scratchin' hip hop DJ with diabetes. The diabetes part was easy but building the turntable was a little tricky. I wanted him to go as the Calorie King, but sadly it wasn't to be.

  

Had I thought of it earlier, I would have asked you all for some DJ name suggestions.

 

Maybe DJ D-Boy or DJ Infusion or DJ Broken Pancreaz.

 

I instructed Charlie to ask for celery if anyone tried to put candy in his bag.

 

What I find most challenging during the trick or treating is the fact that the little "fun-sized" candy bars don't have the carbs listed. I wouldn't call that "fun" whatsoever. To combat this, I did some carb cramming with the aforementioned  Calorie King before leaving the house.

 

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"Trick or Treat" came early this year.

 

Perhaps I should clarify. While Saturday, October 29 was the designated day for many children's Hallowe'en-themed activities — including costume contests, mall Trick-or-Treats, and the costumed American Diabetes Association Step Out to STOP Diabetes Walk, Mother Nature had other plans for us — plans that included snow shovels, flashlights, streets full of wet, slushy, ice-snow, and not a microwatt of electric power to be had for three towns' radius around us.

 

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Hallowe'en is a time of transformations.

 

In the ancient Celtic traditions (and the modern Wiccan ones), Samhain is the time at which the Goddess — old, and lonely, and missing her lover — goes to the Summerland to be with him. With her goes light and warmth, fertility, and life. The Samhain Sabbat denotes the end of summer/fall and the beginning of the winter seasons, a time when the last harvest has come in and when the herds are pared down to what the community can feed through the winter, and what will be able to reproduce in the spring.

 

It is a time of plenty, preceding a known time of famine.

 

It is also the start of the new year.

 

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