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Sunday, April 17, 2011 9 O'Clock .... 9 O'Clock last night... The approach sounded a bit like an " Orignal " (pronounced "Ori-G-Nahl", a large ungainly moose ~ a vocab word attained from forced-family-fun while playing Balderdash ). The quick, loud, stumble down the stairs...

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 A Shared Moment... Last evening... after dinner... we went on a family walk to take Oscar to "do his business." I was bringing up the rear. I believe I had the baggie for the said "business" product. Bridget was yammering on and on and on and on and on ( an...

Saturday, March 26, 2011 It Was "Me"...Now, It Is "He"... As I looked for Joe's exit from the school building after the dismissal bell yesterday, I was slightly perplexed that I didn't see his jiggly-jowls and his exuberant gait come bounding toward me in his customary "...

Photo by Cyndi Freeman The bulky, clanking, clamoring dog vomit doused carrier was hogging up the passenger seat. We had to go get Oscar from the groomer right after I picked the kids up from school yesterday. What does the carrier have to do with me, the kids, or hell type 1 diabetes management you...

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 "Shooting-UP" The Sugar Taken this morning "Please just give me the shot, Mom." These words muttered by a pale, sleepy, I-have-been-fighting-a-low-for-over-an-hour-Joe. This was last night. This was about an hour after dinner, about an hour after a "softer"...

I had a "clever title" of "Oh NO, Not Chicken Marguerite On My 550-Thread Count Sheets!" ... and ... somehow I wanted to add into the title that a massive blizzard hit and there are a couple of neighboring counties declaring a state of emergency. You get the picture? Can you begin...

Yesterday I was reminded once again of how aggravating diabetes can be and just how much it impacts all of life. Recently, I've been having the rebound effect, so I'll go from being in the mid-200s all day to dropping into the 40s and 50s in as little as an hour. There is nothing worse than the...