With my son just one month short of turning fourteen, I feel like I now have entered a phase of on-going battles. Our relationship is solid enough, yet it is not filled with tranquility but instead is prone to raging storms followed by short interludes of calm. My husband and I sense that we are just beginning to make our way down the long road of... Read more
Get a group of women together who have given birth - particularly when in the company of an expectant mother, and more likely than not the topic of labor and delivery stories will come up. The tougher and longer the labor, then the more impressed are the listeners of the teller. A similar exchange of stories occurs when a group of parents who all... Read more
As a mother of a son with Type 1, I tend to focus on the big picture when it comes to managing his diabetes. By this I mean I want to ensure that he doesn't have a severe hyperglycemic low that renders him unconscious or, on the other end of the spectrum, doesn't overindulge on carbohydrates and end up in the ICU in DKA. Now that the school year... Read more
Halloween. The time of ghosts, goblins, pirates, and nightmarish amounts of candy and other carbohydrate-laden treats, particularly if you have diabetes are a parent of a child with diabetes. So what are you supposed to do? Sideline your child and have him watch It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! a few dozen times on Halloween Night? Watching... Read more
The Scarlet "D," a take off on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, has been used to describe being unjustly labeled for society's perceived wrongdoing and can be applied to everything ranging from divorce to depression to diabetes. With healthcare reform commanding our attention and the headlines, many suggestions have been put on the table as... Read more
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