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I was walking around town, and I saw a cafe. It just had a gigantic letter on top of it "D", I walked in with my son, and asked the waitress for the carb count of the childrens menu. She knew exactly what I was talking about without the roll of the eyes "damn atkiners". I asked her what diet soda she had, and she had diet 7-up, and didn't blink when I ordered diet soda for my two year old. As we settle down, I hear conversations, people checking their blood sugars, needles, meters, strips stuck… Continue

on august 23rd Tony celebrated his second birthday. We didn't have anything planned really, just a box of cake mix and frosting cause we thought we would be in a hurricane, but that went to Mexico instead. So we stayed inside and played with toys and ate too much cake. Pretty amazing since he almost died only 3 months ago. He snoozed and I finished up his video, I posted it here called "Tony's story".

Here's Tony and his cake, I really suck at baking. I can cook real great meals but I…

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We've been living with diabetes since May. When we brought our son home as a newborn, we had an adjustment period, we had to adapt to another life. So I look as diabetes as bringing home the most brattiest unruly toddler ever and we're adapting again. Mr. Diabetes likes to throw hissy fits at 2 am and go low. He has my son eating at certain times because he needs nph. He leaves little marks on my sons fingers and injection sites to remind us he's here! He's never predictable, just when every blo… Continue

But just want to say life is great! Tony has been out of his honeymoon for awhile now and it's a huge relief-not exactly "stable" since I hate that term but it's not as scary. His vocabulary is exploding, he's a little behind compared to other kids his age but I know not to compare, he's always been advanced more physically than verbally. He's going to turn 2 this month, I get all teary thinking about it since back in May I had a night of thinking he wouldn't live to see this birthday and he'…

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that nose picker in my profile pic is Tony. He's 22 months old and was diagnosed with t1 diabetes two months ago. He loves getting tested (which is a relief), he likes watching it and tries to help. He's okay with the shots. He's on nph and novolog. His honeymoon period ended a few weeks ago.

I stay at home with him, have since birth. My husband works offshore, so it's just me and him most of the time. My husband was in the navy, he just got out. We are glad he did, we have a feeling i…

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