Our Diabetic Life

Dear world: You see what I let you see. I let you see my trophy shelf. I shine it so it will distract you. You see my triumphs, yo...

Every night, before I go to bed, I check my boys’ blood sugars. Checking a sleeping teen/tween’s blood sugar is more a delicate proces...

That title is ridiculous, but I’m not changing it, because it’s true. The reason I’ve gotten through the last year without totally l...

When I was a young child, it was the “old people” who passed away. The ones who were 90. Old. People. They had grey hair and wrin...

There was no humidity in the air that day, just the sweet scent of summer’s end and a cool breeze brushing the hair from my forehead. I w...

beep BEEP beep. The second beep is a higher pitch than the first and the last. beep BEEP beep. It’s what the pump says when it...