Aims testing and T1D

Last week Kortnie's school did AIMS testing, these are the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards testing.  They are apparently a big deal, the schools and school districts get funding based on the children's grades on these tests.  I believe that next year the kids will have to pass these tests in order to advance to the next grade levels.

So, Kortnie's school is pretty pro active in getting parents on board and encouraging us to get them good dinners and breakfasts before testing as well as reminding us that the kids need lots of rest.

Kortnie usually wakes up and has breakfast around 7, school starts at 7:50, so she does have a bit of a post-breakfast spike in blood sugar in the mornings.  Testing was going to start at 8:05am.  I was worried about the blood sugar spike. 

I got her up right on time, but had her eat before she got dressed.  I also prepared breakfast for them.  I don't usually cook every morning, we eat a lot of cereal and oatmeal.  The kids like it, and generally we don't buy the super sugary stuff. 

Also, the kids would be having a snack at school before the test.  This I guess the school does so that kids aren't hungry during testing-sadly there are some kids who don't get breakfast at home in the mornings.  I didn't want Kortnie to be left out, but I wasn't too keen on the snacks they were giving the kids.  Oh, the snacks were just fine, but not really what I wanted for Kortnie.  They had juice and crackers mostly I think. 

We don't have a 504 in place for Kortnie, (we are doing one next year when she moves up to the big kids school) but her teachers and the other school staff have always been open with us and worked around our needs.

Our plan for Kortnie went this way...

-The night before we tried to have good dinners, no carby pasta or pizza that makes her spike throughout the night
-To bed at 8pm, read until 8:15pm and then lights out, I was diligent about her nighttime checks, to make sure she woke up at a good number in the morning
-Wake up at 6:15am,  eat at 6:30am, made them eggs, strawberries, and peanut butter toast one day, and the other day we had egg sandwiches and strawberries, both days they had milk (Vanilla Almond Milk for Kortnie)
-I sent in snacks for her, 3 peanut butter crackers, 1 slim jim, and Healthy Balance Juice. 15 carbs
-I made her a chart to follow on taking BG and snacks
     1. Check BG
     2. If number is over 150, eat snack and bolus for 15 carbs
     3. If number is 105-150, eat snack and bolus 10 carbs
     4. If number is 85-105, eat snack and bolus 7 carbs
     5. If number is lower than 85 or higher than 250 call mom
-I also made sure that the basket we keep in Kortnie's classroom had plenty of low snacks and other supplies, because they technically were not allowed to leave the classroom during the test.  Most of the time Kortnie tests and treats in class, in extreme or stubborn low and highs she goes to the health office, with an escort of course. 
-I clarified with Nurse, Principal, and Teacher that if Kortnie had any extreme lows or highs during testing she would be able to leave the classroom, they were fine with that, but said in lieu of an escort (usually a classmate or teacher), the teacher would have to call the nurse or office staff to come get her. I also clarified that if she needed to use the bathroom then she would be able to.  I did advise Kortnie that she needed to use the bathroom before class and that she should only use her bathroom privileges if she REALLY needed to go.
-Her second sets of testing were in the afternoon after lunch.  I made sure we packed her lunch without excessive carbs and with protein.  I didn't limit her, I just paid better attention to what she was taking and helped her to make good choices.  I told her and the nurse to call me if she was High or Low at lunchtime, like above 250 or lower than 80.  I also told her at recess to run around a little, not to sit on the steps and talk with her friends.  Basically I told her to get her wiggles out, figured that might help the spike.  And then after lunch I had her follow the above plan for snacks before the test. 

Overall, she did really good.  She was responsible (with the help of her wonderful teacher), I never got a phone call about crazy numbers.  She said the tests were easy, but it wasn't any fun to have to sit still and quiet while the other kids finished (they had to sit and read books if they finished early).  I looked thru her meter and her numbers were all good, I can't remember what they were exactly, but I do remember thinking they were good numbers and I wished we could have numbers like that all the time. 

It does go to show that with planning, diligence, good cooking, rest, and hard work from both Kortnie and I we can keep better numbers.  I'm not going to lie though, it was exhausting, the planning, a few extra checks, making sure our "team" was all on the same page.  And luckily Kortnie's body was cooperating and not growing or trying to get sick or anything.  I am all on board with doing the extra work to keep her healthy, but sometimes a kids gotta be a kid and sometimes, a mom has to let them.

Spare A Rose, Save a Child

Today is Valentines Day.

 

A day for love, kisses, hearts, flowers, candy, unicorns, and glitter.

 

On this day in 2001 my Brian asked me to marry him, and from then on we have grown a beautiful family, full of love and fun. 

 

On this day and everyday I am thankful to live in a land where I am able to provide for my children.  Provide them easily with all of the things they need to grow; food, shelter, water, clean air to breathe, clothing, shoes, education,  LOVE, hugs, kisses, fun, and most importantly, in Kortnie's case, INSULIN!

 

There are children and adults in some countries who do not have access to insulin, it is just not available or they can't afford it.  With out insulin, a Type 1 Diabetic will die, we all need insulin to live, most of us produce our own, but Type 1's do not.

 

I don't even want to imagine what it would be like to live in an under-developed country, much less what it would be like to live there, have my child diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and have to watch them die, because I can't get the life saving medication that they need. 

 

Life For A Child.  is an International Diabetes Federation program that provides life saving insulin, education, and tools to children and their families in developing countries. 

 

Just $1 a day provides a child with regular insulin, blood sugar monitoring equipment, clinical care, diabetes education materials, and diabetes trained medical staff.

 

Spare a Rose, Save a Child is a campaign within the DOC (Diabetes Online Community) to help raise funds for Life For A Child.  The idea is that on this Valentines Day, if you planned on buying roses or even chocolate covered strawberries for your sweetie, you buy your 11 roses and take the money you'd spend on the 12th rose and donate to the Life For A Child campaign.

 

 

 

I donated $5 yesterday, can you spare a dollar or two, or five?  Even if you can't today, I hope you remember this programme and maybe you will have a few bucks to spare at some other time.

 

Happy Valentines Day from Kortnie's D-Life.

Kortnie is happy to have access to the tools and medications she needs to stay alive.
 

 

 

 

D-Mom Fail, Oh well, there's always next week!

We had a fail last night.  Sad episode for sure. 

 

Here is how it went.

 

Kork is watching a little TV before Girl Scouts, I was on my computer finishing up the taxes.

 

"Beep, Beep"

 

Me- "Is that your pump?"

 

Her "yeah"

 

"Well, what's it beeping about?"

 

"Low Cartridge, less than 10U"

this means that she is running out of insulin in her pump, which means that its time for a site change because I usually put 150-175 units in her pump each time and that lasts us 3-4 days, so when the pump runs out, its time to fill it up and to change the site.  You don't have to do both at the same time, but doing them at the same time works for us.

 

"Okay, after dinner, lets remember to change your site and cartridge"

 

"Okay"

 

15 minutes later we are heading out the door to Girl Scouts.  I left my older daughter at home with 2 of my daycare kids who she helps out with quite often and its a way for her to earn some money.  I took 2 of my other daycare kids and my 5 year old son with us.  It was my week to help out with the troop, also I am cookie mom this year, so I had to go get the girls cookie orders so I could log them on the computer and order their cookies for them.  Got to the church where we have scouts, put my son and the 2 daycare kids in the playroom, then I went to the scout meeting with Kortnie.  While the girls were working on their craft I tallied up the cookie orders.  The mom of my 2 daycare kids showed up to pick up her kids, I talked with her a minute, then a GS mom showed up and asked me about Kortnie and K's plans for a sleepover the next night.  So we talked about that and got the details hammered out.  I packed up Kortnie and her brother in the car, headed home to get Stasia, then we went to the grocery store and picked out some soup to go with our grilled cheese sandwiches.  Back home, it's now about 5:30pm.  I told the kids a few chores they needed to finish up and I started making dinner, grilled cheese and chicken noodle soup.  Got the kids eating, (gave Kortnie insulin and everything) a load of laundry in the dryer, and hubby walks in about 6:30pm.  Gave him a quick kiss then headed upstairs to get ready for my Zumba class at 7, while he visited with the kids while they ate. I got changed and folded a load of laundry.  Came back downstairs, told Brian and the kids that I was going, they need to put their dishes in the dishwasher, get their folded clothes off my bed, and be in bed reading by 8pm.  I went to Zumba and got in my "me time".  When class was over I talked to my friend in the parking lot for a few or fifteen minutes, got in my car, had 3 texts waiting.  I answered them, stopped by my church on the way home to get a schedule for our ward's women's volleyball and talked to the ladies there for awhile.  Finally I got home around 8:45ish.  All the kids were asleep. 

 

Do you see where I am going with this?

 

I had a quick shower, made myself a grilled cheese and sat down to watch Once Upon A Time on Netflix with Brian and enjoy my sandwich. 

 

About 10pm-ish, our show was over and time for us to go to bed.  I tidied up the house, started the dishwasher, put wood on the fire, brushed my teeth.  AND, went to check Kortnie's blood sugar.

 

Her BG was 205, not bad, she needed a little bolus of 1.50 Units of insulin to get her down in a better range.  Went to give her the bolus and ....

 

"Beep, Beep, Beep"

I had totally forgotten about the beep, beep, beep from earlier!

 

I check the pump and it says something like "failure to deliver, not enough insulin"

 

Oh crap, there is only 1 unit left and she needs 1.5 units now, and she still needs her basal rate all night long, and she's sound asleep, and I've never tried to do a site change on her while she is sleeping, and I'm not going to try that now either, she'll probably wake up and punch me.

 

So, I wake her up.

 

"Kork, come on, we gotta get up, we forgot you were running out of insulin, and we forgot to do a site change"

 

"oh, can't we do it tomorrow?"

 

"no baby you are out of insulin, we have to do it now or you'll get sick"

 

She started getting up, I told my husband who was in bed that Kortnie was coming and we needed to do a site change.  (Our bed is where we do the site changes, always)  I went downstairs to get the insulin out of the fridge.

 

Kortnie was sitting on my bed half asleep, went into my closet and got the site and cartridge, told Brian to get the site ready, told Kortnie to take off her old site, I filled the cartridge. 

 

I handed the cartridge and pump to Brian so he could get that all loaded, I put the site in Kortnie.
Click here for a video on how I put the site in, the video is back from Aug 2011 and is a belly site.  I need to make a better one someday.

Put the site in, and, DoH!  I forgot to clean off her skin, she had been kind of sweaty in bed, the site didn't stick!  Now I have to pull that one off, and do another one. 

I'm irritated because my stupidity just wasted a $10 site, she's irritated because even though she is used to putting sites in, they still hurt, and she is tired.  She is crying now, but silent big alligator tears rolling down her face.  Somehow those silent tears make me feel worse than if she was just blubbering and hollering. 

I gave her an alcohol wipe, got a new site out, got it ready to go, waited for the alcohol to dry on her skin.  Put the site in and this time it worked. 

I cleaned up the mess, Brian primed the tube, got Kortnie hooked back up, gave her the 1.5 units of insulin.  I told her to go get back in bed, I went downstairs and put the insulin in the fridge.

Came back up, went into her room and she was in her bed, all bundled up in her blanket, still crying, I gave her a kiss and asked if she was okay.  She said yes, still crying.

"Does the site hurt?"

"No"

"Are you just tired"

"Yes"

"Go back to sleep now"

"Okay"

She was still crying, her face looked so sad, I could almost read her thoughts and they seemed to be
"why me, this sucks, I'm tired, stupid diabetes, stinkin' needles and pokes"

She didn't say any of that, but I am pretty sure she was thinking it, I know in that moment, looking at my sad, brave girl I was thinking it. 

Man, what a life!  For me, it was an inconvenience to have forgotten to take care of her pump stuff earlier, but for her it was more than an inconvenience.  To be woken up, to have to go in the bright light, to be stuck not once, but twice because mom messed up the first time.

I felt crappy that in my haste to get out of the house, I had forgotten to remind her and to tell her dad that she needed a new site.

But, she felt even worse about the whole situation. 

Last night, was a D-Mom fail in my book.  Definitely not my first fail, probably not my last fail.  It sucks, but there is always next week, right?

For the record

2:12am check was 98

6:47am check was 102

WINNING!

And she was in a good mood, no mention of the drama of last night.
I wonder if she even remembers.

That is a WIN!

Hah! Diabetes can suck it!

Last nights fail turned into a win this morning.

 

 

48 Questions, A Good One to Start the New Year Off

Meri over at Our Diabetic Life answered 48 Questions.  I thought I would try it too, I need something to kick off a new year of blogging.  As far as Kortnie's D-Life, right now everything is ho hum, blah, blah, blah.  Oh don't get me wrong, Diabetes has been kicking my ass and pissing me off since before Christmas, but it always does that and I don't feel like dwelling on it or whining about it, and that crap Diabetes is pulling is nothing new or perplexing (well it is perplexing, but not in a new kind of way!), so I needed something to get me going, and a fun 48 getting to know you questionnaire thingy seemed the way to go.  Here we go!

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?

I was named after some songs, Amanda by good ole' Waylon Jennings, and Mandy by Barry Manilow.

2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?

I don't know. Recently I'm sure.  I cry a lot, because I have leaky eyes, just random stuff will make me cry, actually I think I cried a little on Saturday, because Anastasia (my oldest) made the first basket at her basketball game.   I  am sure that I cried Sunday during church, and I'm sure I cried some other time this week too, its just what I do.

3. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?

Ehh, it's okay.

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT?

I like this peppered turkey, it isn't crusted in pepper, but has ribbons of pepper going all thru it, I get it at the deli at Walmart.  I think it might be made by Sara Lee

5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS?

I have 3 of them.  Two girls and a boy.  I do daycare out of my home, so I have more kids that I think are mine, I teach Nursery at my church, little guys 18months-3 years old, I think they are mine too.  I am PTO President for 3 years now, at the K-3 school in my town, I think all of those kids are mine too. 

 

6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?

I think so.

7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?

Never!

8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?

Yep.

9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP?

Yes!  Actually I think I would, but most likely I would chicken out at the last minute. 

10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?

I like Oatmeal Squares, and Special K with chunks of chocolate and dried strawberries, I got it at the store last week on sale, it said limited edition on the box.  I also love Cream of Wheat

11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF?

No,but then when I go to put them back on I untie them.  I kinda hate wearing shoes, always have, but the older I get, I find that wearing shoes, actually makes my back and feet feel better, so....whatever!

 

12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG?

I guess so.  But that leaky eye thing I have is kind of wimpy, isn't it?

 13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM?

All of them, I love ice cream it is my weakness.  Cookies and Cream, Mocha Almond Fudge, Pistachio, Coffee Chocolate Chip, Mint Chip, Peanut Butter, Pecans and Pralines, Sweet Cream, Brownie Nut Fudge, those are some.  Now I want ice cream. 

14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?

Their smile and their eyes.

15. RED OR PINK?

Ummm, neither or both?  This is a hard one.  I have red hair, so red?  Well, my hair is strawberry blond, so that is more pink, so pink?  The color red as in clothing or lipstick, looks terrible on me while pink looks good on me-so I'm told, so pink?  I don't really like to wear pink though, mauve or purplely pink is okay.   Red roses are nice, but I like the pink geraniums I grow too.   Our rabbit has red eyes and they are kind of freaky, pink eye sucks too.  I drive a Red SUV Truck and I like that, its fun having a red car, no one wants a pink car.  I'm on the fence with this one.

16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF?

My thighs and booty, or my leaky eyes.

17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?

No one really, I have my guy and my kids around me, they are all I need.  Sure, I miss my family both mine and my husbands family members who don't live close, but we are lucky enough to see them often or have seen them recently, so I am not missing them much, not right now at least.  I miss working at the airport in Phoenix and I miss the people there.  Yeah, that is my final answer.

18. WHAT IS THE TECHNIQUE THAT YOU NEED TO WORK ON THE MOST?

Since this is my D-Mom blog, I'd say that I need to work on Combo Bolusing and Temp Basals the most.  As a whole, I would say I need to work on....nothing, I am perfect the way I am!  Seriously though, I can't really think of anything else.

19. WHAT COLOR SHOES ARE YOU WEARING?

I have on these black deck shoes, they have tiny little pink, gray, and white hearts all over them.  I bought them for $1 a couple years ago at a rummage sale.  They have tons of holes in them, in the toes, the sides, and the heel even. I don't really wear lots of pink like I said before, and I don't have anything else jewelry or clothing that has hearts on it, but I love these shoes because they slip on and are comfy and worn in, I just got back from picking my oldest up at basketball practice, I sat right down to finish this post up and didn't even kick off my shoes beforehand.  I am kicking them off right now though.

20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE?

An orange and a couple of pistachios.

21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?

My 3 kids and 1 daycare kid talking and watching Sponge Bob on Netflix (I HATE Sponge Bob!), now they are changing it to playing the Wii Fit.

22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?

Cerulean.  Its like an ocean skyish blue color.  There used to be a Crayola crayon with that name and it was my favorite.

23. FAVORITE SMELLS?

Clean babies, garlic, bread baking, vanilla, oranges, the ocean, and finally-this one is kind of weird-pepsi.  Brian drinks pepsi all day long, and when he comes home from work and gives me a kiss, he always has pepsi breath, when I smell pepsi it makes me think of him.

24. HOW IMPORTANT ARE YOUR POLITICAL VIEWS TO YOU?

They are important to me, but I don't think my views are important to everyone else, so I usually keep them to myself.  I am tired of seeing every ones political views and arguments all over facebook and everywhere else.  If you don't have something nice to say then don't say anything at all.  How many peoples views or votes are changed by something posted on facebook.  Politics and Facebook and Politics and Trying to Argue with me when I state what I think are my pet peeves.  Can you tell?

25. MOUNTAIN HIDEAWAY OR BEACH HOUSE?

Beach house, I crave the ocean.  A mountain hideaway would be nice too, but it has to have a lake or stream close by.

26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH?

Whatever my kids are playing.  My oldest is sporty, she does it all, I think my favorite to watch her do is swimming.  I like football too, but we don't have TV so I don't get to watch it, but going to a High School game is fun.  I like the Olympics, but again, no TV and no matter how I searched I could not find live Olympics on the Internet this summer :(

27. HAIR COLOR?

Red, or Strawberry Blond, remember we covered this already.

28. EYE COLOR?

Hazel, more brown than green.

29. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?

Yes, I'm pretty blind, even when I wear my glasses I can't really see. 

30. FAVORITE FOOD?

Hamburgers.  I like lots of food but hamburgers I could eat forever if I had to.

31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?

Happy Endings.

32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?

I watched Red the other night with my husband.  We got it as a Netflix DVD in the mail.  It was funny.  We watch a lot of movies, before that we watched  Trouble With the Curve, it was good, but kind of slow, I got that one at the Redbox.  We've also watched Princess Diaries 1 and 2, Transformers 3, and Magic Mike in the past week.  The last movie I saw at the theatre was 007 Skyfall.

33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?

My Color Run shirt that I got when I did the Albuquerque Color Run last August.

34. SUMMER OR WINTER?

Spring and Fall.  Oooh, I'm such a rebel!

35. FAVORITE DESSERT?

Ice cream, or better yet a milkshake to go with my hamburger.

36. STRENGTH TRAINING OR CARDIO?

Cardio.  I was never much of an excerciser, but I am finding I like Zumba and running.

37. COMPUTER OR TELEVISION?

No TV for us, I like the computer, but I also like Netflix, of TV shows on the computer!

38. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?

None, which is sad because I like reading, I need to go to the library and get me a book.

39. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD?

I don't have a mouse or a mouse pad.  I have a laptop.

 

40. FAVORITE SOUND?

The kids laughing genuinely not that fake obnoxious laughing. 

41. FAVORITE GENRE OF MUSIC?

I like almost all of it. 

42. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME?

My dad was in the military so wherever we were was home.   I've lived in AZ for the last 17 years though and the farthest I've been from here would be Hawaii.  (When I was a kid I went to Japan for a layover on our way to Guam where we lived for 2 years, so maybe one of those would be considered far from our home of the US) 

43. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT?

Not really, except that I'm perfect!   Don't you remember from earlier?  Silly questions.

44. WHERE WERE YOU BORN?

Edmonds, Washington.  A suburb of Seattle.

45. WHERE ARE YOU LIVING NOW?

Snowflake, Arizona.  Ironic name for a town in Arizona isn't it?  It isn't even named for snow or snowflakes, its named for the first settlers here, the Snow and the Flake families, but it does snow here.

46. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR HOUSE?

White or gray or cream colored with a darker gray or black trim.  I suspect it was Gray with Dark Gray trim originally.

47. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR CAR?

Red!

48. DO YOU LIKE ANSWERING 48 QUESTIONS?

I do, it was fun, I like reading answers to 48 questions better, hope some more people do these. 

Late Night Conversations

Sometimes at night when I go into Kortnie's room to check her blood sugar she half way wakes up.  When she does, she usually has something funny to say.  Last night made me smile.

I went into her room and she must have been lightly sleeping, because before I could even climb up on the stool I keep by her bed (she sleeps in a top bunk) she sat up in bed.  She was holding her stuffed giraffe.  She handed it to me while I was getting her poker out and loading the test strip.  I took the giraffe from her and said something like

"let's check your blood sugar" 

 

"what is it?"

 

"it's your giraffe"

 

"what?"

 

poked her finger, "a giraffe"

 

sucked up the blood with the strip, "oh, a giraffe?"

 

4....3....2....1, 265  "what does it do?"

 

"it's your baby, you got it from girl scouts"  I made the giraffe kiss her on the nose

 

smile-giggle

 

I pushed her over a little, handed her the giraffe and told her to go back to sleep

 

she hugged the giraffe close and rolled over

 

I gave her a bolus of insulin and covered her up whispered, "good night, I love you" I covered up Stasia in the bottom bunk, kissed her forehead and took myself to bed.

 

 

Day 30!

Wow!  I made it!  Today's prompt is to recap National Health Blog Post Month.

I feel like I got some education out there.

I feel like I learned a few things myself.

I fee like I shared some funny moments.

I feel like I shared some good stories.

I feel like I have lots more to learn.

I feel like I brought out some feelings that I might want to explore further in myself.

Today is the last day of Diabetes Awareness month, but that doesn't mean that we quit, or that Kortnie can quit. 

We live with Type 1 Diabetes everyday 24/7/365.

Day 29 - How Diabetes has Changed Me

Phew, I am almost done with National Health Blog Post Month.  I am glad that I've made it this far and also glad that it is almost  over!

Today's prompt is... How has being a caregiver changed you?

Well, lets see how has being a caregiver changed me?  First of all, I've always been a caregiver to all of my children, but caring for a child with a chronic illness is a different ball game I guess.

#1 I ended up leaving my job, so now I am a stay at home mom instead of a working mom.  It has been a good change, it was hard at first, but I've learned I am learning on how to make our family work on one budget.  I've recently also started doing daycare in my home to help out with a little spending money.  Being a stay at home mom gives me the opportunity to be able to help out more in my community as well.

#2 Being a caregiver has made me more paranoid when it comes to my kids being sick.  I used to just be the "kids get sick, its normal, its okay, no need to freak out" mom, but not now.  If Kortnie gets sick I am constantly watching her to make sure she doesn't end up in bad shape.  If the other kids get sick I am worrying that they are developing T1D or some other auto-immune disease, I am googling (which can be BAD), and I am sneaking into their rooms while they are sleeping and poking their fingers to test their blood sugar too.  My husband is always telling me, "Stop Googling!" and my kids are always saying "I don't have Diabetes!"

#3 I think I have become a little more patient, well maybe not, LOL, with my kids I am more patient, with the insurance company, not so much!

#4 I have become a lot more scatterbrained, thinking about carbs, exercise, weather, hormones, growth spurts, illness, blah, blah, blah, all of the time, makes my brain a bit fuzzy

#5 I am so tired all of the time, tired equals unsexy...you know where I'm going with this?

That's what I can think of now, and specifically I don't know if it's all Type 1 Diabetes fault that I have changed.  People change over time, sometimes change is good, sometimes it isn't.  It was always my goal to be a stay at home mom, so that change is good.  I am happier being home with my kids, but I miss going to a job sometimes too.  I tired of being tired, I am tired of feeling like I miss my husband, I am tired of life that seems to just be plugging along.  I think I need a new change now, I'm just not sure where to find it.

Today's prompt is a loaded one and I'm just not ready to really think about it and delve into it right now. 

Overall, life is good, we have many things to be thankful for.  We have a home, a job, great kids, the medicine we need, insurance, a wonderful family, great friends and community.  There are things that we want of course, there are changes that we could make to be happier of course, we're always working on those, isn't everyone?