1 Drop at a Time

Yesterday, I had an honest mom moment. I always swore up and down that I would be mindful of the little moments with my son, and enjoy them. Then the shoe disappeared.  Jake, my son, doesn't talk much yet. We get by with little noises and lots of pointing. Well, I was rushing around the house getting laundry done, because Thursday is laundry day. Why is that?  I have no idea why Thursday is the magical day for laundry! I asked Jake if he wanted to go outside. To my surprise,  he let out an excited little noise and ran down the hall. I was in his room, with my head  in the depths of his dirty clothes basket, when I stood, there was Jake with his favorite shoe. I smiled at him, hands full of laundry and said "I'll put your shoe on in just a second." He looked at me, raised it up one more time and I said the same thing. He didn't seem too phased that I didn't put the shoe on, so he followed me to the laundry room. I got my precious laundry started and turned arou...

Happy Spring! The weather is glorious in Georgia minus the greenish/yellow pollen that finds its way on any surface. But hey, I'll take it! One of my New Year's Resolutions was to get my fasting blood sugars down to the 110-120's. For whatever reason, I would always wake up in the 150-180's. Which any one of my nursing buddies knows, in the hospital, this wins you some sliding scale insulin! I have been very conscious of my CGM trends and adjusted my basal rates accordingly. If you haven't read the book "Pumping Insulin" by John Walsh and Ruth Roberts, you should check it out. Dr. Anthony, my endocrinologist, suggested I read it and I'm so glad we did. I say we, because Osman, my husband, read it, too. I was scrolling through pictures on my phone and came across several screen shots of my Dexcom graph when I first started wearing the pump. I guess your mind does a really good job at blocking out HIGH numbers. Thankfully for Osman, when I was so...

We did it! We safely traveled half way across the country and back without any major incidences. Jacob did great for his mere 14 months of life, and I did pretty well myself. I definitely learned a thing or two. I'm thankful for the help of my husband and family, because we bit the bullet and did it. You don't know what it will be like until you try it, and like I've talked about before, I don't want to let diabetes hold me back. So for a little review of what I learned, here it is: 1. DO NOT GO THROUGH THE METAL DETECTOR!!! Unless you want to be felt up by TSA in front of a JV basketball team, in the middle of one of the busiest airports. I blush thinking about it. Basically, if you have a stroller, it gives you a free pass to the "fast" line aka, the slow line where TSA herds all the screaming babies and people who require a little more assistance. I was holding Jake, so they were trying to make our life easier by escorting me through the metal detecto...