Type 1 Diabetes makes you stronger. I vividly remember sitting down to write my Christmas cards in 2014 and thinking, “I’d do a Christmas letter, but nothing ever changes in our life!” I was sitting pretty comfortably with my husband of 12 years, our 10-year-old boy who hated getting in trouble and did everything he… Continue reading What T1D IS.
Type 1 Diabetes is not a direct sentence to eating only meat and veggies. Luke can eat anything he wants, within reason, just like before his T1D diagnosis. If he wants five tacos for dinner, he eats five tacos for dinner. (He is a 12 1/2 year old growing boy, after all!) If he wants ice… Continue reading What T1D is NOT.
Want a really cool t-shirt that supports a really great cause? Grab a Luke’s Lifesavers t-shirt! What is Luke’s Lifesavers? Luke’s Lifesavers is our JDRF One Walk team name. Luke helped come up with the name last July when we decided to create a team for the walk. Why are you selling t-shirts? We are selling… Continue reading Luke’s Lifesavers t-shirts are waiting to be ordered!
The end of July is always a busy time for us. It marks the end of summer. One day after the calendar flips to August, I’m off to school and Luke follows two days later. So that means we have to make all of the appropriate preparations… Stopping at Target a few times to pick up school supplies-… Continue reading It’s 504 time…
Before June 13, 2015, at dinner time we would fill our plates or grab a snack and start eating. Now, it takes a little more effort before we can eat. As you all probably know by now, we don’t limit Luke when it comes to carbs. He eats anything he ate before diagnosis. He eats anything that… Continue reading Step by step, it’s eatin’ time.
This was taken from the Facebook page Saving Luke- Luke and Jedi- Fighting Type 1 Diabetes Together. They asked for everyone to share it. To get the word out. To stop these senseless deaths from undiagnosed Type 1 Diabetes. It happened again. Last week a local young college student got very sick. He started vomiting and… Continue reading It happened again.
In my last blog post, I shared about my hunch that Luke had Type 1 Diabetes, based on his symptoms. I was so fortunate to have not only heard the signs and symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes, but to have tucked them away in one of the cabinets of my brain. What I didn’t know was… Continue reading DKA.
I love that Facebook shows “Memories” every day. It’s fun to look back and see what happened a year ago, two years ago, five years ago. Lately, though, it’s been bittersweet. The past week or so Facebook has reminded me of Luke’s last elementary activities as a 5th grader… his spring orchestra concert… end-of-year celebrations… Continue reading It’s bittersweet.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, you will soon learn that I am a huge Type 1 Diabetes/JDRF Advocate. I will raise money for JDRF until a cure is found. I am also a big advocate on creating awareness for Type 1- through this blog, sharing Luke’s experiences with others, answering questions, and… Continue reading Model Elementary Kids for a Cure.
Luke had his quarterly endocrinologist appointment a week ago. I felt like we were starting to come out of honeymoon because we were seeing a lot more sugar levels on the higher end of his range. I didn’t feel like we were seeing many on the lower end, let alone below his range. Because of… Continue reading 4.6%, say whaaaaat?
Smells Like Insulin 