{"id":562,"date":"2017-07-25T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s782639264.onlinehome.us\/?p=562"},"modified":"2017-07-25T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:08:29","slug":"10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/type1demystified.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"10 years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 years\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>10 years of checking&#8230;checking blood&#8230;checking insulin pumps&#8230;checking if he&#8217;s high or low or somewhere in between&#8230;checking if he\u2019s ok, I mean REALLY ok&#8230;checking if we&#8217;re good&#8230;checking if we got this.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of needles&#8230;from syringes to pen needles to insulin pump inserter&#8230;10 years of OUCH and sometimes DAMN and other times TEARS&#8230;10 years of did that go in right&#8230;will this do what it\u2019s supposed to do&#8230;or will things go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of stopping&#8230;stopping playing because of a low&#8230;stopping eating because of a high. ..stopping sleeping because we need a drink&#8230;10 years of stopping breathing because I hear no noise from the basement&#8230;10 years of stopping in my tracks on the way to his bedroom hoping he is breathing.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of numbers&#8230;10 years of blood glucose checks&#8230;45, 155, 400, 1250&#8230;10 years of ratios&#8230;1:45, 1:100, 1:10, 1:80&#8230;10 years of basal rates\u2026.05, .90, 1.24, 1.40&#8230;10 years of adding, subtracting, counting, covering, and weighing.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of little sister taking the back seat&#8230;10 years of interrupted stories for a low&#8230;10 years of interrupted mommy time because of a high&#8230;10 years of waiting for the attention to be back on her&#8230;10 years of hoping to be the center of attention without interruption.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of starting&#8230;starting Kindergarten&#8230;starting Middle School&#8230;starting High School&#8230;starting sleepovers&#8230;starting roller coasters&#8230;starting parties without mom&#8230;10 years of starting creating a greater distance&#8230;starting to become independent&#8230;starting to find ourselves again.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of ignorance&#8230;10 years of can he eat that&#8230;10 years of my grandmother went blind from diabetes&#8230;10 years of too bad he ate junk food to get this disease&#8230;10 years of stares&#8230;10 years of judgment&#8230;10 years of impositions&#8230;10 years of educating the masses.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of friendships&#8230;10 years of crying on shoulders of people that get me&#8230;10 years of questioning my worth as a mom&#8230;10 years of needing reassurance that I am doing the best I can&#8230;10 years of talking me off the ledge or pushing others back on the wall&#8230;10 years of \u2018you got this\u2019 and \u2018you are doing great\u2019 and \u2018i love you\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of worry&#8230;10 years of waiting&#8230;10 years of anger&#8230;10 years of pain&#8230;10 years of questions&#8230;10 years of strength&#8230;10 years of awe&#8230;10 years of bravery&#8230;10 years of hero status&#8230;10 years of it is what it is&#8230;10 year of kicking diabetes in the ass.<\/p>\n<p>10 years of winning.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to hell, diabetes, today and everyday. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years\u2026 10 years of checking&#8230;checking blood&#8230;checking insulin pumps&#8230;checking if he&#8217;s high or low or somewhere in between&#8230;checking if he\u2019s ok, I mean REALLY ok&#8230;checking if we&#8217;re good&#8230;checking if we got this. 10 years of needles&#8230;from syringes to pen needles to insulin pump inserter&#8230;10 years of OUCH and sometimes DAMN and other times TEARS&#8230;10 years &hellip; 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