My mother would be proud. I have been thinking for a while now about getting a Medical ID bracelet. I am sure that everyone can understand why I have not done this yet. Medical ID bracelets are not looked at as cool and they are generally pretty ugly. But they serve a good purpose. If something ever happened to me where I was unconscious and could not communicate I would need someone or something else to speak for me. And now that I am on an Insulin pump I felt like it was even more important.… Continue

Today I am really hating diabetes. Last night as I was about to brush my teeth I thought, I should check my sugar now because if I don't I am going to go low and have to drink juice. As I was walking over to my night stand I started to feel that all to familiar feeling. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...37. What the crap? Drank some juice and sat on the bed. Then it hit me, the sweat, the weak feeling, and the inability to think straight. 10 minutes later I retested at 32. What????!!!?? More juice and a half a… Continue

I just got off the phone with my Endo's office and they are submitting the paperwork to my insurance company to start me on the Omnipod pump. I have butterflies in my stomach. I am excited about this but also really nervous. I am praying that the Lord would give me the strength to know this decision is about my health and having healthy children some day. It is not about what people think about me when they see it. It is hard to not be vain and think that people will think I am weird for having… Continue

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One of the hoops I have to jump through with my insurance company is getting pre-authorization for my visits to the endocrinologist because he is a specialist. So every January I call and get the number of visits for that year approved. This is amazing to me because should Jesus come back or a cure be discovered this whole diabetes thing is not going away. One would think that just the nature of having a chronic disease would signal… Continue