They seem to be multiplying!

Q counted out 50 pods to send in for recycling through Insulet’s Eco-Pod program. She was happy that there were a few leftover to use for craft projects.

If you are wondering about the pods marked with an X, we leave the old pod on anywhere from 15 minutes to hours. If I think I’ll have a difficult time remembering which is the new pod and which needs to come off, I’ll mark the old one with an X.

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The petals of the flower are OmniPods and the center is a butterfly test strip, a ketone strip, a vial of test strips, and a syringe (to fill the pods, not to stick her with).

Q drew this picture and sent it, along with a l-o-n-g letter to my friend Karen.

We’re still holding out for colorful pods. Do you hear that Insulet? We would love a little variety!

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I’m sure your house is just like ours in the morning. Your family has just the exact amount of time you need to get everyone clean, fed, clothed, and ready to go off into the world.

Q’s school is starting 15 minutes later this year which helps us quite a bit. But if anything goes wrong, all bets are off.

When I awoke this morning I couldn’t open my eyes. Sealed shut. I’ve been battling allergy eyes all fall and even gave in and bought the teeny tiny bottle of eye drops that cost FORTY-EIGHT dollars.

I was about to make my way to the bathroom for a warm compress when Q came in, a high pitched squeal preceding her entrance.

“Mom, my pod woke me up.”

Before I could unglue my eyes and wash my hands thoroughly so as not to goop up everything I touched, my son came in the room.

“Mommy, when I woke up my eyes had tears.”

Oh no, crusty eyes on him too. Please don’t let us have pink eye!

Okay. Uncrust my eyes. Wash hands. Uncrust 4yo’s eyes. Wash hands again. Grab PDM and look at the records to see what time Q’s pod deactivated and how long she’s been without basal insulin.

6:58 a.m. Good to know. If it had been hours her blood sugar could be through the roof.

Run downstairs to grab a pod, alcohol swab, and Q-tip. Run back upstairs to Q who has snuggled back under her covers.

(I could have grabbed one of the extra pods from our upstairs supply kit, but that would mean replacing it later.)

Start the pod activation process.

Yell down to hubs to bring me a new vial of insulin because I realized I didn’t have quite enough to fill the syringe to the minimum mark.

See big air bubbles. Ask 4yo to go get me the pen that’s on the clipboard in their bathroom.

He brings the whole clipboard and everything on it.

As I fill the pod with insulin 4yo says, “I wish I had diabetes.”

I say, “No you don’t.”

To which he says, “If I can’t have diabetes at least I can play guitar.”

Okay. Have no idea what that means but he starts playing with several used test strips that were on the clipboard. He shows me the guitar on his t-shirt and strums it with the test strips.

Debate with Q about the best pod placement for roller skating. Decide on her tummy, which she sucked in as the cannula inserted making it sting more than it would have had she just relaxed.

Get Q dressed in her awesome 80′s inspired roller skate tee and send her down for breakfast.

Get in the shower and wash my eyes thoroughly again.

Hubs comes up to get dressed (he makes the kids breakfast every morning and then brushes their teeth & washes their faces while I get my shower).

Realize I was so tired the night before that I forgot to write out guidelines for school staff about roller skating and her blood sugar.

(When I skated with her class the other day she went low afterward despite the pre-PE snack. I want Q to carry her supply bag to class & test her blood sugar afterward & treat/snack accordingly. She normally doesn’t test right after PE, but she skates FAST.)

Typed out a note quickly on the computer. Printed four copies, one for her PE teacher, classroom teacher, nurse, assistant principal. Grabbed them from the printer. Only three? Gah!

Change ink cartridge. Print fourth sheet.

Run downstairs to remote start my car because as my son said earlier “Jack Frost got mommy’s car.”

Wrote out the carbs for Q’s lunch which she packed herself. Stuck her lunch slip in her PDM pouch, put her pouch in her d-supply bag, put her d-supply bag and her lunch in her backpack, and set it by the front door.

Ran back upstairs and dried my hair.

8:20 a.m. In the car and on our way to school. Only 5 minutes late, but plenty of time to get there before the bell.

So, uh, yeah. How was your morning?

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Laptop.

Coffee.

Write. Write. Write.

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Uh, yeah. So I was going to explain the above scene. But I think I’ll just leave it up to your imagination.

And if you are wondering, Q chose the S’more cupcake with a graham cracker layer, chocolate cake, toasted meringue frosting and roasted mini marshmallows. I chose the tirmisu. And no, I have absolutely no idea how many carbs it should have been counted as.

Flying by the seat of my pants!

What do you think really happened?

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We change Q’s pump at 4:00 pm usually. We soak the adhesive with baby oil to loosen the adhesive and let it sit for 15 minutes or longer so that it slides right off. On gymnastics days I literally change it as we are heading out the door. This day she took off the old pod as she came over for a drink of water, handed it to me, and returned to her class.

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A package arrived with GlucoLift glucose tablets and my non-D four-year-old asked if he could try one. Before I could say no, he took off with the bottle. I had to laugh when I walked into the living room to this scene. I wonder if he was trying to get the bottle open or if he was recreating a glucose tablet factory.

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Here are the photos I took in February, documenting a year in a life with diabetes.

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So I am once again attempting the Diabetes 365 Photo Project.

But be warned, I am not attempting to take a photo each and every single day. Some days I take a diabetes-related photos, some days I do not. Some days I take three! And in all likelihood all D365 photos will be taken with my phone.

That being said, I traded in my iPhone 3Gs for an iPhone 4 for $25. I’m not even kidding! Right before Christmas Radio Shack had them on sale for $50 off. A third party was buying functional iPhone 3Gs phones for $125. So $200 minus $50 minus $125 is…an opportunity to upgrade that I could not pass up!

So even though these are photos taken from my phone, the iPhone 4 has quite a nice little camera!

And quite frankly the easiest way to get D365 photos up is to take them with my phone, use the Flickr app to upload them, and then use a plugin to get them right here onto the blog. I know that sounded complex, but it’s better than importing them in one-by-one. Trust me. (If there is an even easier way, please do let me know!)

Anyway, photos. That’s what you came here for today.

Here are the photos I took in January, documenting a year in a life with diabetes.

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View more of my images that are part of the Diabetes 365 Photo Project. You can see descriptions of each by viewing in Flickr.

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Here are the photos I took in October, documenting a year in a life with diabetes. Of course the focus of many of the photos are sweets and treats and all things Halloween. We also had our Step Out walk this month and of course we wore capes!

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