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Hometown (where you come from):

Duxbury, MA

Do you have diabetes?

I have a relative/friend with diabetes

Type of diabetes

Type 1

Date diagnosed

May 21, 2005

Most recent A1C (Blood Glucose Average) Value

7.3

What glucose meter do you use?

Omnipod

Type of treatment you use

Pump

What pump model do you use, if any?

Omnipod

What is the address for your Facebook profile, if any?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670826576

What is the address for your Twitter profile or other web site, if any?

http://www.thesigristfamily.com

How did you find out about us? What were you searching for?

CWD

Who referred you? (if anyone)

What do you do for a living?

Biomedical Researcher

When my son, Griffin (now 3), was diagnosed with T1 at 18 months, I was devastated. I had seen ten years of T1 complications in my mil who died at age 53. I knew intellectually That treatment for T1 is better now than it was then, but it really felt like an emotional kick in the teeth. It was a very bad year for our family, since the company that my husband worked for closed up shop 3 days before Griffin's diagnosis.

I work full-time as an immunology researcher, though not directly with diabetes.

We're getting an Australian Labradoodle puppy to train as a Diabetes Alert dog. He/she is due to arrive on December 19th!

Kirsten

Wife of Peter T2
Mother to
Cooper (9) nonD
Griffin (4) dx 5/05

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Our new puppy!

Our breeder just did her final round of temperament testing and after 9 months of planning, our new puppy will be arriving on Tuesday! We will be training Tessie to be Griffin's diabetes alert dog. I'll keep you all updated on Tessie's progress!

Posted on December 12, 2007 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Back from vacation!

Having a toddler with D presents unique problems and stresses, so after 2+ years in that club we were in need of a break from reality. The Disney Cruise seemed like it would be a good fit for us. There would be plenty of kid-friendly entertainment and perhaps my husband and I would have a chance to leave Griffin (3) in children's programming, knowing that if needed to they could page us and we could be there within 5 minutes. Griffin did not spend a huge amount of time in Children's programming,… Continue

Posted on September 13, 2007 at 11:34am —

Numbers, numbers, numbers

I try not to let the "bad" numbers get me down, but I was pretty bouyed by Griffin's numbers this past week. No readings above 270 and 65% in range! That probably doesn't sound great to you D adults, but I'm ecstatic! Now, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Griffin has an endo appointment on 8/10 and we invariably have some sort of major BG snafu in the week before his appointment (sigh).

Posted on July 17, 2007 at 11:52am — 2 Comments

Sad Day

I'm taking my dog, Pippin, a 13.5 yo basenji to the vet today to be put down. He is in kidney failure and hasn't kept anything down for 3 days. He's now refusing to eat. My husband wants to let nature take it's course, but I don't want Pippin to suffer (and he's obviously suffering now) AND I don't want my 9 year old to wake up with Pippin dead in bed with him!

Here's a photo of Pippin and Cooper in happier days.

… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2007 at 3:08am — 6 Comments

Settling in...

tudiabetes seems to be a very comfortable spot. Thanks, Manny for setting it up.

My mother is here, helping out for the summer. When I was 20, the thought of having my mother stay with me for 8 weeks would have completely depressed me. Well, here I am, the mom of a diabetic toddler and sooo grateful for the help. Who cares if she throws out half of my worldly possessions while she's here. Peter and I actually went out to see a movie on Saturday!

Peter's family is close by and very knowledgable… Continue

Posted on June 27, 2007 at 7:17am — 2 Comments

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At 12:13am on April 22, 2009, Lois La Rose said…: Kirsten:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR KIRSTEN!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

And many, many more!

Lois La Rose
Milwaukee, WI

At 8:46am on April 19, 2008, Tara said…: He's recovered, and into everything, he had a suppressed immune system which caused him to get the kennel cough from the vax..... thanks for checking in

At 11:26pm on December 12, 2007, Unicornzzz said…: I wish I could get a puppy while I have this dog but she is a bully to other dogs. When my dog was about 4 lbs she bit a dog the size of an adult shephard on the nose. She is now 7 lbs. She is also very old and is on heart medicine. The vet has told us that she needs lead a stress free life. A new puppy right now would not be a good idea.

At 6:53pm on December 7, 2007, Staci said…: Hi Kirsten, I have a question for you, my daughter (11) uses the pod & we use a large tegaderm over the entire pod. I'm interested in using just a strip at the catheter end like you mentioned. Is the mastisol difficult to get off at pod change time? Also, when you use mastisol & the tegaderm strip like you mentioned, does your son ever have the problem of hitting the pod enough so that the pod itself separates from the fabric underneath?? We had this problem which is why we went with the full size tegaderm. Thanks for any help.

At 4:27pm on September 18, 2007, Sarah Russo said…: So our first saline start kinda flopped... the cannula popped out after 1 day of school.... What's tegaderm?

At 3:58am on September 17, 2007, LizY said…: Hey Kirsten,
If you can send me an email through admin at pfd dot org dot au I can give you a lot more information about the dogs that way!
Liz

At 4:01pm on September 14, 2007, Sarah Russo said…: Hey Kirsten - Julia's getting her Omnipod Monday. Any tips?

At 2:46pm on July 20, 2007, Manny Hernandez said…: Actually, all that happened was that the total number of recent blog posts displayed on the home page was reduced from 5 to 3, as part of the measures taken last night to help speed up the site, as explained here:
http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topic/show?id=583967%3ATopic%3A18333

The 3 posts are still on the home page: they just got moved to the middle column, closer to the bottom, which ended up being a necessary move to "balance" the boxes in the home page a bit.

Let me know if this addresses your concern. If not, I will be glad to look for alternatives.

At 8:33am on July 19, 2007, kassie said…: Thanks for the welcome!

At 8:32am on July 11, 2007, Sandra Miller said…: Kirsten-

You've got a lot going on over there-- no worries if this doesn't work out.

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