February Blogger Basal!

Basal is a curious thing. It is the silent hero in the war we fight every day. Drip Drip Drip...it is easy to forget it is there. It is automatically programed to support our children's life...a hero for sure!Blogger Basal is the silent hero as well. The steady stream of posts throughout the DOC blogosphere silently keep the hearts of readers pumping. It saves us emotionally. We are lifted up by the power of "same."Today I am proud to host the February Blogger Basal and give you a sampling of the posts that steadily pumped out droplets of light into our souls. Instead of giving my take on the blogs...I'm going to let the bloggers use their own...

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Finding the warmth.

What do you do when you hit rock bottom?What do you do when the wind is sucked right out of you and you’re just lost?You can’t find the person you want to be…all you know is you are not the person you want to be.I’m lost.I’m in a funk.How do I find my way back to happy?The clutter of life is stifling my view. All I see is clutter. Where is the beauty? I know it is within my reach…I know it is right there, in front of me…but the clutter blocks the way.Simplify?How do you simplify a life such as ours? There is nothing simple here. Everything is complicated. Everything is harder than it should be.I know what it is. It is my outlook. It is all within....

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The most awesome thing I have done, in spite of diabetes is...

The most awesome thing I have done in spite of diabetes?Hands down, easiest question ever...These two little munchkins right here.As most of you know, J was diagnosed when he was 8 months old. J is my second son...B and L wern't even on the radar yet.It was scary, and deliriously confusing when we were told J had Type 1 Diabetes. We spent a week in the hospital…mostly for J to recover from his ketoacidosis…and a little bit because I needed to learn how to take care of my little boy. (The hospital obviously didn’t think this was too big of a deal, they sent me home with a book and my pediatricians home phone number. “Call him when you need to...

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TCOYD...my report!

Last Saturday I had the honor of attending, and participating as faculty at the TCOYD conference in Santa Rosa, California. Amy Tenderich of Diabetes Mine asked to me to sit in a forum and discuss “living with diabetes online.”Most of you know I was extremely ill the previous weeks, and it was nothing short of a miracle that I was in good enough health to attend. I was still coughing, (I AM still coughing,) but I could walk upright…so that in itself gave me the green light to get off my couch and go.I brought my mother with me. She is an insulin dependent type 2. She was diagnosed about 5 years ago and we have some suspicion that she may be a...

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Attention ALL bloggers!

Our Diabetic Life is in charge of the Blogger Basal this month!What is Blogger Basal you ask? Well, it is a sampling of blogs throughout the diabetic online community. As basal insulin is a steady/constant dripping of insulin, the blogger basal is a steady/constant dripping of thoughts throughout our community. If your blog has a thousand readers, or just two...I want to link to you!I will link to one post per participating blog. All YOU have to do is email me a link to a February blog post. One from your own blog...the one that you like best.Easy Peasy?Maybe...but here is the catch. I need your link by Wednesday, February 23rd. (That is less...

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Valentines Day: Wherein...I get knocked down.

Captains Log: Valentines Day…the REAL Valentines Day, was wonderful…the kids had the day off thanks to the broke California School System, so we enjoyed a day at the movies and just plain relaxin!BUUUUUUT: Last Friday was the real/fake school Valentines Day Celebrations.Rating: F for “what the FLIP happened?!”It started with L not bolusing for breakfast. This has become a problem. I tell him what to bolus…he takes out his pump…and for some flippin reason, it just doesn’ t happen. I’m talkin’ like twice a week. Out of nowhere! So…it is my job now. I give the breakfast boluses…But I digress.Friday…he didn’t get that Bolus, and he called me at snack...

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Let's hear it for the boy!

Three weeks ago I marched into the pharmacy and bought out all the Nyquil, Dayquil, Tylenol Flu and Mucinex in the store.I went up to the counter to dump my sorry lot of snot/cough inhibitors and looked at the girl. “We’re sick.” I said.“You and the rest of the town.” She says. “Everyone says it lasts FOREVER!”“Tell me about it! I’m on day six!”Just thinking about it makes me snort. Day six! Six days! Phlep! That is nothing!I’m on week four now…and I know you all will believe me, as I am almost always only honest…that I almost died from this thing. The only thing worse was the swine flu I almost died from a few years ago. It was one of those...

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Our new BFF: Lenny the Lion

A few months ago our family discovered Lenny the Lion.He was introduced through a carb counting app produced by Medronic. If you haven’t checked it out, you should run over and take a look. It is a FREE app and has all sorts of games that teach carb counting. My 7 year old, 9 year old and 13 year old all found something of value within the game. I even had M dabbling with it…the more he knows the better, right?Anyhow…last week I got an email from the powers behind the Lenny the Lion App. Our family had been randomly chosen to win a two foot tall Stuffed Lenny the Lion Doll! Holla!I’m not sure what I was expecting…but I wasn’t expecting the awesomeness...

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TCOYD...and me!

TCOYD (Taking Control of Your Diabetes) is a charitable organization whose sole purpose is to motivate those that have diabetes to take a more active role in their health. They educate, motivate and provide tools to help those with diabetes succeed in all they do! They have awesome conferences that take place throughout the United States. One of those conferences happens to be NEXT WEEK in my neck of the woods.Amy of Diabetes Mine is leading a session on “Living with Diabetes Online,” and she was kind enough to ask me and Landileigh to join her panel to relate some of our experiences.I have never been to one of these conferences, but after reading...

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