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Monday, February 6, 2012
Friday, November 4, 2011
November is National Diabetes awareness Month
My lovely husband wrote this article about our little 6 year old insulin diabetic child. I wanted to share it with all of you. I also wanted to keep it for down the road to have Bradley read it.
One cold January morning I was woken up by the bed shaking. No, it was not an earthquake, it was my five year old son seizing in the bed. I was sleeping with him that night and his blood sugar had gone too low. I put him on his side and ran down the hall to grab the cake frosting and a phone to call 911. The seizure seemed to go on forever. It seemed like an eternity as I listen to first the siren on the fire truck get louder and then the ambulance as it approached our house that morning. My wife held our five year old in a chair in our living room as the medical and fire personnel entered our house and surrounded him. I scrambled to get dressed and put on my slip on shoes as a fire fighter grabbed my son and carried him out of the house with a blanket wrapped around him. His shirt was taken off and draped over the fence on the way out to the ambulance. I looked into the back of the ambulance and I saw the dazed and confused look of my son as they hooked him up to all kinds of wires and put in an IV. My heart was beating a thousand beats per minute as I jumped into the back of the ambulance. I was still in shock at that point as the doors of the ambulance closed and I told my wife that I would call her when I got to the hospital, not knowing the outcome. The seriousness of the situation and reality of it hit about a mile down the road as the paramedic called in over the radio, "We have a five year old child who has experienced a diabetic seizure and we are five minutes out." I maintained my composure until after they immediately rolled him into the bay in the ER and started to talk with the nurse and then the river of tears flooded my eyes. I was so exhausted from the trip the day before to see his doctor and medical team in Sacramento. I had fallen to sleep before I checked him in the late evening and early morning hours before the seizure. That experience was just this past January of this year. In June my wife found him passed out in the backyard and had to administer his emergency shot to revive him. She called 911 and they told my wife that she was the "expert" and we knew if we needed medical personnel and assistance.
We try hard to be positive and upbeat regarding the diabetes and never give up hope of a cure. We focus on the management of it, but don't let it consume us. We focus on our family and not the drastic change and impact this has made on our family. We are thankful for the days where the blood sugar is in range and ask the Lord for his strength and wisdom on the harder days. It is a tough disease and a diabetic emergency can sneek up on you in a heartbeat!
In honor of National Diabetes Month in the month of November and to the millions of families impacted by this disease. Know the signs of diabetes:
Taken from:
http://diabetes.about.com/od/symptomsdiagnosis/p/Symptoms.htm
Frequent trips to the bathroom:
Are you visiting the bathroom much more lately? Does it seem like you urinate all day long? Urination becomes more frequent when there is too much glucose in the blood. If insulin is nonexistent or ineffective, the kidneys can't filter glucose back to the blood. They become overwhelmed and try to draw extra water out of the blood to dilute the glucose. This keeps your bladder full and it keeps you running to the bathroom.
Unquenchable Thirst:
If it feels like you can't get enough water and you're drinking much more than usual, it could be a sign of diabetes, especially if it seems to go hand in hand with frequent urination. If your body is pulling extra water out of your blood and you're running to the bathroom more, you will become dehydrated and feel the need to drink more to replace the water that you are losing.
Losing Weight without Trying:
This symptom is more noticeable with Type 1 diabetes. In Type 1, the pancreas stops making insulin, possibly due to a viral attack on pancreas cells or because an autoimmune response makes the body attack the insulin producing cells. The body desperately looks for an energy source because the cells aren't getting glucose. It starts to break down muscle tissue and fat for energy. Type 2 happens gradually with increasing insulin resistance so weight loss is not as noticeable.
One cold January morning I was woken up by the bed shaking. No, it was not an earthquake, it was my five year old son seizing in the bed. I was sleeping with him that night and his blood sugar had gone too low. I put him on his side and ran down the hall to grab the cake frosting and a phone to call 911. The seizure seemed to go on forever. It seemed like an eternity as I listen to first the siren on the fire truck get louder and then the ambulance as it approached our house that morning. My wife held our five year old in a chair in our living room as the medical and fire personnel entered our house and surrounded him. I scrambled to get dressed and put on my slip on shoes as a fire fighter grabbed my son and carried him out of the house with a blanket wrapped around him. His shirt was taken off and draped over the fence on the way out to the ambulance. I looked into the back of the ambulance and I saw the dazed and confused look of my son as they hooked him up to all kinds of wires and put in an IV. My heart was beating a thousand beats per minute as I jumped into the back of the ambulance. I was still in shock at that point as the doors of the ambulance closed and I told my wife that I would call her when I got to the hospital, not knowing the outcome. The seriousness of the situation and reality of it hit about a mile down the road as the paramedic called in over the radio, "We have a five year old child who has experienced a diabetic seizure and we are five minutes out." I maintained my composure until after they immediately rolled him into the bay in the ER and started to talk with the nurse and then the river of tears flooded my eyes. I was so exhausted from the trip the day before to see his doctor and medical team in Sacramento. I had fallen to sleep before I checked him in the late evening and early morning hours before the seizure. That experience was just this past January of this year. In June my wife found him passed out in the backyard and had to administer his emergency shot to revive him. She called 911 and they told my wife that she was the "expert" and we knew if we needed medical personnel and assistance.
We try hard to be positive and upbeat regarding the diabetes and never give up hope of a cure. We focus on the management of it, but don't let it consume us. We focus on our family and not the drastic change and impact this has made on our family. We are thankful for the days where the blood sugar is in range and ask the Lord for his strength and wisdom on the harder days. It is a tough disease and a diabetic emergency can sneek up on you in a heartbeat!
In honor of National Diabetes Month in the month of November and to the millions of families impacted by this disease. Know the signs of diabetes:
Taken from:
http://diabetes.about.com/od/symptomsdiagnosis/p/Symptoms.htm
Frequent trips to the bathroom:
Are you visiting the bathroom much more lately? Does it seem like you urinate all day long? Urination becomes more frequent when there is too much glucose in the blood. If insulin is nonexistent or ineffective, the kidneys can't filter glucose back to the blood. They become overwhelmed and try to draw extra water out of the blood to dilute the glucose. This keeps your bladder full and it keeps you running to the bathroom.
Unquenchable Thirst:
If it feels like you can't get enough water and you're drinking much more than usual, it could be a sign of diabetes, especially if it seems to go hand in hand with frequent urination. If your body is pulling extra water out of your blood and you're running to the bathroom more, you will become dehydrated and feel the need to drink more to replace the water that you are losing.
Losing Weight without Trying:
This symptom is more noticeable with Type 1 diabetes. In Type 1, the pancreas stops making insulin, possibly due to a viral attack on pancreas cells or because an autoimmune response makes the body attack the insulin producing cells. The body desperately looks for an energy source because the cells aren't getting glucose. It starts to break down muscle tissue and fat for energy. Type 2 happens gradually with increasing insulin resistance so weight loss is not as noticeable.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Recipe for Homeade Laundry Detergent
I keep hearing all these negative things about laundry soap and all the gross additives that are included. I became curious on how it would be to make my own laundry soap. So far, so good.
I want to share this easy peasy recipe with all of you. It smells good, lasts a long time and you would have to worry about all the additives! Problem solved!! ;)
You will need 4 simple ingredients that you can find all at Wal-mart.
Here it goes
One bar of Fels-Naptha soap. (Buy a couple bars cause the other products below will last forever and if you buy 3-5 bars you won't have to run out for more in a few months)
One box of Borax
One box of Arm and Hammer Washing Soda
One box of Oxi Clean
One 5 Gallon Bucket
Fill the bucket with 3 Gallons of water. Cut up your soap, nice and small and melt it on the stove in a quart or two of boiling water (taken from the bucket). Add 1/2 cup of Borax and 1 Cup of the Washing Soda to the bucket and add the water full of the melted soap, stir, cover with a lid and the next day you will have a HUGE amount of gel like goo. If it's runny you can stir it a bit.
Simply use a detergent scoop and enjoy your clean clothes. I use a big scoop for just about any size load. This stuff lasts forever.
Enjoy
Monday, November 8, 2010
Christmas Wreaths
Ohhh it has been too long since I last blogged. I have been keeping busy with making my ornament wreaths for Christmas. here are the latest and the greatest:
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
We got a new pup!!!!
For several weeks my boy Bradley has been asking us for a weenie dog. He had told me he wanted to name her "squishy". I thought that was such a sweet request, we couldn't deny him that.
I had been searching online for one and had scoured the local shelters for one. When we went to Haven Humane yesterday to look, we saw our soon to be new pup! She was in the first cage and it was like she was meant to be. We loved her from the second we saw her!!
She is 1 year old. Part Daschund and part Chihuahua. Weighing 9 pounds.
She is a keeper!! She slept through the night, she is house broken, goes everywhere in the car and reminds me of an aardvark!!
The boys love her and she loves them!! Michael also loves her. She slept all night nestled next to him.
I am so thankful at how much joy an animal can bring to a home!! We have 3 other dogs. So far they all like each other. IT was a match made in heaven. ;)
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
being featured
So today while checking in on my Etsy shop, I got a fun convo from http://www.etsy.com/shop/lovestitched and I was pleasantly suprised.
She is going to be featuring my trio mustache mug set on her blog this coming friday June 11th. It is called "find it on Friday Etsy" and the theme is mustaches!
Im very excited. This will be the first time one of my items has been featured on a blog. Be sure and come back on Friday and check it out!
Hope the rest of your week is dandy! ;)
xoxo Holly
She is going to be featuring my trio mustache mug set on her blog this coming friday June 11th. It is called "find it on Friday Etsy" and the theme is mustaches!
Im very excited. This will be the first time one of my items has been featured on a blog. Be sure and come back on Friday and check it out!
Hope the rest of your week is dandy! ;)
xoxo Holly
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