Blisstree » needles http://www.blisstree.com Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:22:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Kids: Drawing Diabetes http://www.blisstree.com/articles/kids-drawing-diabetes-78/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/kids-drawing-diabetes-78/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:00:51 +0000 Cherie Burbach http://www.diabetesnotes.com/kids-drawing-diabetes/ Post from: Blisstree

Kids: Drawing Diabetes

]]> This is a very sweet and sad video that shows kids and their drawings about diabetes. I got diabetes as an adult, and I cannot imagine getting it as a kid. They go through so much. Take a look at this video.

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Kids: Drawing Diabetes

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/kids-drawing-diabetes-78/feed/ 2 My Kids Closely Monitor My Diabetes… http://www.blisstree.com/articles/my-kids-closely-monitor-my-diabetes-78/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/my-kids-closely-monitor-my-diabetes-78/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:53:25 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.diabetesnotes.com/my-kids-closely-monitor-my-diabetes/ Post from: Blisstree

My Kids Closely Monitor My Diabetes…

]]> stevekendrakaelyn-010.jpgI thought I would share a funny little story with you. My 3 girls often fight over who gets to prick mommies finger and who gets to slide the strip in the glucometer. I guess I have always been honest with them and explained to them why mommy can’t always eat what they are eating and what can happen if I do. And as they have gotten a bit older, they are starting to understand diabetes more and ask questions.

“Mommy, what would happen if you only had 1 ice cream cone, and then didn’t eat anymore for a few weeks?” And there is always, “Can’t you just have some of the cake, we won’t tell daddy”! That always makes me giggle. Like if we don’t tell anyone about the tasty food that there will be no ramifications. Oh, to be young again.

But my oldest did her best to explain her mommy’s health condition last week at book club. “If my mommy eats too much sugar then we have to give her an extra needle to see what her sugar temperature is measuring and that would take too much time. And her fingers are so sore now and she doesn’t like to prick them. I think she is scared of the needles and I have to do it for her. She is like a big baby sometimes. But that is because of the diahetees!” Uh huh, that is right y’all, we have diahetees! Ah, out of the mouth of a babe. Haha.

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My Kids Closely Monitor My Diabetes…

]]> http://www.blisstree.com/articles/my-kids-closely-monitor-my-diabetes-78/feed/ 1 I Am Sharing A Touching Video About Juvenile Diabetes http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-am-sharing-a-touching-video-about-juvenile-diabetes-78/ http://www.blisstree.com/articles/i-am-sharing-a-touching-video-about-juvenile-diabetes-78/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:17:27 +0000 Kendra James, RN http://www.diabetesnotes.com/i-am-sharing-a-touching-video-about-juvenile-diabetes/ Post from: Blisstree

I Am Sharing A Touching Video About Juvenile Diabetes

]]> Manny at Tu Diabetes.com had a video posted last week that left me in tears. It is a short “film” that shows just how stronjdrf.jpgg the children and families that live with juvenile diabetes are every day of their lives. Diabetes is something that they treat but can never cure. For a child, it becomes the norm. But that makes it no less scary, overwhelming and encompassing.

It is titled, “A Cure For Tera Dawn”. Please go check it out. My 3 girls and I were watching this on Saturday morning with tears rolling down our faces. My eldest asked, “Kids can get it too. They have to take needles and do all that stuff like grown up’s”? I could only say “yes”.

It just made me think that whatever I have weathered with my own diabetes is nothing compared to this little girl. She is so strong ,just like all the other children that deal with this disease every day of their precious lives! It makes you stop and think, that is for sure.

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I Am Sharing A Touching Video About Juvenile Diabetes

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