Hi Theresa,
My oldest 2 children are boys ages 16 & 14. Then my daughter Helen is 11. Mary - the one with diabetes is 9. My youngest boy is 7.
We are Homeschoolers. My oldest is into History, very much and enjoys taking care of his pigs. My second son enjoys hunting and loves math and likes taking care of the chickens and chopping wood. Helen and Mary enjoy playing dolls and crafts and sewing and enjoy their puppy.
Timmy enjoys just playing with his toys!!

Hello Theresa,
I have 4 other children. None with Diabetes. Mary is the only one. (hopefully it stays that way).
Do you ever wonder what went wrong, what could have caused it to happen??
Sometimes I do. Mary got it after she received a booster DTP. It makes me wonder sometimes. I am not a favorite of immunizations ever since I worked for a Pediatrician when I was still single. I"ve seen too much I guess.
I worry about my youngest son. He often displays a lot of thirst and urinating but his sugars always turn up perfect.
Mary goes to pumping class tomorrow to put on her new Minimed Revel. I am completely exhausted. I was up with her 3 straight nights in a row adjusting her Basal rates because she is going through a growth spurt. I don't feel to with it today.
I am assuming you have twins?! Do you have anymore children?
So good to talk with you.

Hello new friend. I look forward to communications!

Sorry to take so long to reply -- Nate got better fast. Eric refused the antibiotic, and since I'm not willing to sit on him and pour it down his throat, he took longer. Current difficulty may require me to go in search of flavorless antibiotic though--he seems to have some sort of systemic bacterial infection that's going after his CGM sites (not the infusion set sites, though, which is weird). Even one day into the most recent site, it was red and pus-filled so I removed it, cleaned it, and I'm leaving it to heal. This is the third one in a week to go septic!

Ouch, Theresa... broken/dislocated toe sounds AWFUL. My sympathies to your daughter.

Hi, Thanks for he friend invite. As well as being Type 1 myself for 35 years, I have a son who is type 1 and using the Ping. I thought I had figured the type 1 thing out, until I tried to manage a ten year old....

Did your son demo the Animas Ping before he started using it? The Endo approved of us trying the pump and encouraged us to try other pumps. We've only demo'd the OmniPod so far, and she liked it.

Chamberlyn, my 10 year old, was diagnosed last October when she was 9. I also have a son who is 8. She's done pretty well, but is ready to try the pump, and is upset that her numbers have been soaring here lately (I'm thinking the honeymoon's over). :)