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Challenges
I had a bit of an emotional day yesterday. And no, it wasn’t because of Ava, it was because of Sarah… or I guess because of her diabetes. Since we’ve been home and the care for Sarah has shifted...
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512 Nights…
Last Saturday I got this text from my friend Tanya, Aleeda’s mom…. ”512 nights at Ronald MacDonald and now we are all home!” It just blew me away that it had been that long that they had lived in...
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The Highs and the Lows..
Now don’t worry, this post is not about the highs and lows of our Christmas break, haha. :) No, this post is about the highs and lows of living with diabetes… literally and figuratively. Oh Sarah,...
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Something to look forward too…
I’m so excited to be able to announce that in 9 days Sarah will ditch her needles and start using an insulin pump… yipee! We have known this was coming for a while, but last week we actually received...
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Pumping and Riding
So here we are after a whole week of pumping and I can say without hesitation that Sarah loves her pump! She seems to have adjusted well to having to wear her insulin pump 24/7 and I can say that...
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What we’ve been up too…
And here I was, planning to get back to blogging and do it regularly, but as this post is almost two months later, that clearly didn’t happen. But what did happen was that we had a great summer with...
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Mama Pancreas
November is Diabetes awareness month! I should have posted this last Friday on World Diabetes Day, but I’m not that organized. Now perhaps I should have named this post ‘Mamma and Papa Pancreas’,...
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At least we’ve average….
In between my last diabetes post and this one, things have gone down-hill, then more down-hill, then an even keel and perhaps finally we are on an upward swing with Sarah’s diabetes. Can I just take...
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You don’t know the half of it
Last November, JDRF the leader in research and advocacy for type 1 diabetes put out some videos called “You Don’t Know the Half Of It“. They showed interviews with people or children with type 1...
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Instead of perfection…
A few weeks ago Sarah and I were back at the hospital for another diabetes clinic. We typically go every three months, but this time it had been closer to 4 1/2 and I was nervous. To be honest, I’m...
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