My son is in Boy Scouts. He hiked Philmont New Mexico (back country backpacking) last year with a 10 day hike and about 17 days total away from...
My son was diagnosed with Benign Rolandic Epilepsy a few year ago. He had two seizures, both while asleep, with normal blood sugars. After the...
Thanks. I guess after so many years, it is easy to get to the point where the instruction manual is not always read. After I found out it had a...
My son has used the Contour Next Link for well over a year. I had no idea it has a light. Tonight's testing will be nice.
The project has now been graded and my son earned a 100 for this test grade. Now that it is over, I emailed his teacher. I started with plenty...
Thanks for some of the ideas. I do fully agree that it is all in what they call a serving. It just turned out that nothing in my house had 60...
It turns out that not a single food in my house shows at least 60 grams of carbohydrate for a single serving. I do not buy lunchables or whatever...
My son entered 9th grade this year as well. I sent a quick email to each teacher as shown below. Usually teachers must maintain a substitute...
No questions - just celebrating a success. My son is 14, dx at 3 1/2. Tomorrow afternoon he will embark on about a 60 mile hike in the...
My son did prefer manual insertion over the Silserter but now that he uses Mios he never wants to go back to Silhouette again. I did a manual...
I should have mentioned what I do know... Monthly premium Deductible Out-of-pocket maximum Co pays for visits, pharmacy, etc for Blue Cross...
After years of working at home, I am about to begin teaching again. As a result, my insurance is about to significantly change. I have a choice...
My son is another who uses the regular spi belt. When he first started the pump just after turning 4 he wore a tank top under his shirt with a...
I'm glad you found something you feel will work. I am still using the bottles that were originally for breastmilk collection. They measure to...
My 11 year old son was diagnosed with diabetes at age 3 1/2. By age 4 his total cholesterol was 226 with an LDL of 158. The numbers only went up...
My son was diagnosed at the end of August at the age of 3, eight years ago. I still remember stressing about Halloween but I did take him trick...
When my son has a time specific jump in insulin needs, I tend to suspect a growth spurt while overall increases in needs tend to indicate illness....
Whether puberty, pre puberty, growth spurt, or illness, when the numbers creep up it is generally time to increase insulin. How much? For what...
If it helps any, I had to do a google search to figure out what the embarrassing meaning might be.
The person in this article and this video was already in the military when diagnosed but he is the one person I know of to have type 1 diabetes...
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