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long time no blog… no excuses really… I do have an update… our daycare successfully raised $145 in the Caps for the Cure campaign we held… I have to admit I feel like it was a small victory, but my sister quickly reminded me that it is $145 that would otherwise have not been raised and given to our local JDRF chapter. I hope to be able to do it again.
Just was reading Kerri’s blog and see that one of her co-workers has done a day in the life of a diabetic, similar to the experiment I did a few weeks back… good to know I’m not the only crazy person who checks their blood sugars as an “experiment” to better understand a disease…
On a sad note, Charlotte had a scare this week and spent a day and a half in the hospital… her dad came home from work feeling ill and began to vomit… soon after my sister was worshipping the porcelain god and then unfortunately Charlotte too fell ill… vomiting is not a good thing when trying to manage one’s blood sugar… she’d already been low that day and this did her in… they had to take her to the ER and then she was admitted for dehydration. She’s home now and seemingly improved… my sister and her hubby are a bit slower to recover (but that’s what happens when we get old LOL). Nevertheless, I’m left to wonder, as I’m sure my sister and family do too, what the long term impact of these episodes may be… it just reminds me of how precarious her health is and how she really is kind of teetering on the edge… from one moment to the next her blood sugars can cycle so widely and then something like a GI bug that certainly would leave any of us feeling miserable can send her to the hospital in just a matter of hours. Just mind blowing really.
On a happier note, I don’t have to work tomorrow – it’s Independence Day! Time for fun in the sun!
Well, for two reasons actually… It’s both my youngest sister’s wedding day – she’s getting married on the beach in St. Lucia – and it’s our fundraiser day at Hannah and Sarah’s daycare for the JDRF. It’s a “caps for the cure” day and I hope to see lots of kiddos in their caps… the daycare just sent home the monthly calendar and per the usual summer schedule we have lots of special “pay to play” activities, so I hope the other parents take this special fundraiser in stride and the kids enjoy the “fun” of the “fun”draiser – today was crazy sock day so they are getting into the theme of dressing for fun… I think there might also be a crazy hair day too sometime this month! :-)
