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What to Expect When You’re Expecting New Villi: Imaginary Science
The g = glucose. The red, thick thing is a blood vessel. The thin red line on the left is the flattened intestinal lining. the shaggy red and purple parts on the right are the lining with lush villi,...
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Holiday Shopping Disorder
I can’t stop buying all of these things I wouldn’t want anyone to eat anyway. Because: holiday packaging + gluten free = Must Obtain. Holiday season = irrational joy re gluten free junk foods. Each...
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Holiday Cheer(?) with Waffle
Luck A waffle iron that makes toaster-waffle size waffles would be brilliant. Celiac kitchen cleanse require ditch waffle maker. Then, in complicated exchange w. Dualit toaster aficionado, acquire...
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Save the Date
Went with -50% basal and a little snack. We tested when he exhibited unusual behavior, such as lying face down in the snow. That UB turned out to be just a *hilarious* prank. Still no transmitter but....
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Things Are Hard to Quit
In its way, invented treatment early LADA similar celiac. No medicine required, just restricted diet. Benefits myriad: avoid official diagnosis, avoid insulin, avoid life insurance fiasco. Meanwhile,...
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Some Convenience Foods We Ate
What remained of our weird pizza at the end of a potluck supper. Schar pizza crusts. ($9/2 pack @Shaw’s). Top w. whatever & bake. Easy, yum. Carb city. Cute packaging too. The little packets inside...
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Everything Was Awesome
Position One: home. Position Two: location of D-child with non-D chaperone. Position 3: double date. This is not a very good drawing. It’s trying to be Rhode Island. Deep breath, Bigfoot channel inner...
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Is Our Children Learning?
I don’t know how our school nurse does it. Email reader maybe find many between-lines story: Bigfoot not feed child hearty breakfast; child consume entire lunch @snack time This child too much basal “...
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Allergy. Maybe. What?
A small problem. Beginning of time – February 2014: change infusion set every 48-72 hours. Skip merrily everywhere we go without a complaint or care. February 2014: Things become slightly wretched....
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Let’s Play Diabetes
Past two weeks, Bubs’s Dexcom crossed off martinis hours at a time. Dexcom sent replacement transmitter and you don’t need to send back the one you’re using now, so I won’t send a return label. His and...
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Endo Day
I’m not as uptight as my data presentation makes me look. Here. It’s some Easter-theme chocolate. Because I’m so much fun. Endo day. Everything fine. Feel fine, look fine, weigh fine, blood pressure,...
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Please Pass Me 504 Tissues
June. Make Bigfoot realize elementary school end soon. Therefore middle school begin soon. Therefore academic performance begin affect opportunities for future as smarty-type AP Chemistry etc....
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It’s The Beer
Last week I tried to re-boot the part of me that cares about myself. I mean in terms of diabetes. The one-minute muffin sets a serious KM60 tone for the day, and makes the consumer unhungry for many...
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Torn Between Two Lovers
Cha-ching! Today. Arrive @beach w. accurate, day 12-ish, super-insightful sensor. Awesome beach day yadda yadda. Depart beach: sensor dangling off (forgot Flexifix tape overlayer; it Bigfoot bad), site...
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OG&TTT
Notes to self. She’s all right. Another friend has cancer. Writes w. no drama. No drama except story meted out tiny, thoughtful bits. Each bit percolates one month before reveal, instead of gargantuan...
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Welcome to Middle-cle* School
Shes’s making a list. She’s checking it seventeen times. What we have so far: insulin pen, pen needles, syringes (for tenacious highs or in case of pump failure. Boy injects self with pen but not...
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Suddenly: Bar Mitzvah
Arrowroot Cookies/passageway to adulthood. Today you are a man. I’m just so happy I know how to do these cookies! I feel like…a TEENAGER. Like I can just go? In this drawer? And open this bag? And...
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No Trouble
Forensics reveal: seventeen minutes after this text was sent, subject was already taking a screen shot and planning her blog post confession. JACK TO B: it’s no treble not no trouble. B, UNCONCERNED,...
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Look
Water to the right of me, a million kids stretching to the left of me. First XC meet. Look at me looking at the water and not looking at you. Look at me not walking over to be near your group so I can...
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So You Think You Can Make an Appointment (Hubris)
All those who bravely make self-indulgent appointments: I salute you! When I made the appointment, let’s call it a massage, I knew I would not be home in time to meet the guys after school. But I knew...
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