My sister surprised me and my two daughters, Gwen and Olivia, with tickets to the circus. We had a choice of the 4:30pm show or the 7:30pm show. It occured to me that regardless of the show time I was going to give Olivia an insulin shot in public for the first time! (It has always been home, a relative's house, a friends house, or last week - in the first aid building) Instantly, I became nervous about this.

We decided to go to the 4:30 show. Inside the circus tent was extremely hot.…

Ok, so typically, I don't like the double post (here and in my real blog) but desperate times call for desperate measures!

I have been having a lot of bad days lately. Here’s why:

The good news: I have been offered a ‘promotion’ at work. It involves me moving into different housing - free housing. It also includes other benefits such as free utilities, a free cell phone, half my weekly meals free. The…

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You Tube Tuesday #31

Bret Michaels, the former lead singer of Poison, stars in a reality show on VH1 called "Rock of Love". Bret has also been a type 1 diabetic for 38 years.

In the show, Bret is interviewing a pool of skanky broads in hopes of finding his true love. I've been TIVO-ing the show for a few weeks, waiting for any references to his diabetes. So far I've only heard passing references, although I've been mostly fast…

(That's "when", not "if"--reflecting my new positive outlook!)

...the first thing I am going to do is drink a couple glasses of fresh-squeezed orange juice.

I love fresh OJ but it sends my glucose levels through the roof and I have given up trying to figure out how to bolus for it and it's easier just to skip it.

How about you? What would be the first thing you would eat?

At Walk of Hope last year I did a presentation entitled "Faces of Hope".

I had people with type 1 diabetes email me pictures of them or their child along with name, age, age at diagnosis, where they live, basically whatever info they felt comfortable sharing. I had about 20 people send me pictures.

My purpose for doing this was to show those in attendance that this isn't only about my son, but also the millions of others who live with this disease every day and to show that…

Like so many diabetics over the years, I am currently struggling with getting the amount of test strips I need approved by my insurance company. I know, this is an old issue to most of you, and everyone's had to go through it; but today, I learned a little bit about the process for getting my test strips approved, and I must vent about it before I throw my diabetes meter across the room.

In trying to lower my A1C (and being a little paranoid about lows), I've been testing, on average,…

I can't decide. If I was a Smurf, I would either be Grouchy Smurf or Grinny Smurf today.

I'm in a smidge of a diabetes slump, coming off of a weekend that hit the highs of 400's and lows in the 30's. No rhyme or reason to the chaos, but instead a perfect storm of variables that sent me spinning. Now that I'm settled back into the routine of a work week, I'm feeling a little grouchy about the weekend numbers, yet oddly amused by everything (per…