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Type 1 Sugarmomma: Broke (or How to Replace Your Pump)
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Broke (or How to Replace Your Pump). So a few months ago we had a little problem. That's right, it broke. It started scrolling numbers independently and did not deliver insulin or anything else. Now, I have to say that Medtronic. So I can't complain. And neither can she. We made this terminal discovery on the way home from a lacrosse game. This is how it went down:. Me: "What's the matter? Needless to ...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: May 2012
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Tuesday, May 15, 2012. As I continue this journey with my unwelcome guest, diabetes, I learn new stuff all the time. November is diabetes awareness month. The American Diabetes Association and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation are both good organizations with differing philosophies. Don't like it when you read or ask questions. And this week is Diabetes Blog Week. So here we go. I tried to get M to blog about her expe...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: August 2012
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Sometimes I think that, as a D-parent, I face the specter of my child's death every day. While that's not entirely true, sometimes I am scared. When she has a crazy low blood sugar reading or a blood sugar high that just won't come down, I feel the cold grip of fear grab at my chest, my stomach, and my knees. But I have seen enough of those God-awful youtube videos. Is not careful . And I love her.
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: Unpopular
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Saturday, January 12, 2013. In the STAR program. We had a parent meeting about 504 plans. Everyone in the room talked about how hard it was for them to get teachers and administrators to follow the 504 plans for their child. When it was my turn to speak, I admitted that I didn't use a 504 plan. M shook her head, "no" and was sent on her way. When I spoke to the same teacher at a regularly scheduled parent conference, she admi...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: July 2013
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Monday, July 22, 2013. M attended the local public school for her freshman year, and it seemed to go well. The nurse was very thorough, sometimes to the point of being invasive. M enjoyed the nurse and her assistant, however, and the relationship was fine, even if the nurse would seem to want to give a little too. Much input about M's care. There is no nurse a M's new school. There is a designated adult to deal with the stora...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: July 2012
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Tuesday, July 24, 2012. Good friends, Bad friends. Along the journey through teenhood, every child likely has to face some decision making regarding her friends. Do I still hang around with that guy who smokes? That girl who is so boy crazy that she'll probably end up pregnant before she's 16? My reply has always been: If you find them to be valuable, and you are bringing them up. Rather letting them bring you down. Or measur...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: Zombie Apocolypse
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Tuesday, March 4, 2014. One of the interesting things about being a D parent is that your brain doesn't function the way that other people's brains do. For example, when the nuclear disaster hit Japan two years ago. My first thought was "How will the diabetics in the area get treatment? When the miners were trapped in Chile. But then I started watching The Walking Dead. Are on there, I thought I'd give it a shot. Etc And alth...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: February 2013
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Saturday, February 2, 2013. When M first acquired her Medtronic minimed insulin pump. It came with the niftiest little thing: a meter that communicated M's bg levels to her pump after she tested her blood. M would press various buttons to confirm the action, or type in how many carbs she was planning to eat at that time so that the pump could recalculate her dose for her. Either way, it saved her some steps in calculating.
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: On her own
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Monday, July 22, 2013. M attended the local public school for her freshman year, and it seemed to go well. The nurse was very thorough, sometimes to the point of being invasive. M enjoyed the nurse and her assistant, however, and the relationship was fine, even if the nurse would seem to want to give a little too. Much input about M's care. There is no nurse a M's new school. There is a designated adult to deal with the stora...
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Type 1 Sugarmomma: March 2012
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Exploring the trials and tribulations of parenting a teen with type 1 diabetes. Thursday, March 29, 2012. I may have mentioned once or twice that I teach high school. I love this job. Kids keep you on your toes, and normal adults are so boringly well-behaved. Included in my backpack was ¨el libro¨ . When a student guessed that there might be a book in my backpack, I reached in and pulled out the book I am currently carrying around: Think like a Pancreas. The Pancreas That Wanted To. All of my students kn...