Kasey Trenum
Living with Type I Diabetes: A glimpse into our lives.
I’m excited to be a part of Land O’Moms.com for so many reasons. First, I love being a mom there is nothing like it in the world. A wise friend told me before I had children “it’s the hardest job you’ll ever love with all your heart.” (Scared me to death at the time, no kidding) How right she was, no matter how challenging my day has been all it takes is one glimpse of one of my little one’s sweet sleeping face and I immediately miss them.
When I heard about Land O’Frost’s multi-year partnership to support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation it hit especially close to home. My daughter and husband are both Type I Diabetics. Although I am very thankful that diabetes is a manageable disease, it can still be very challenging. Anything I can do to help further awareness or raise funds to find a cure you can count me in.
Now, I’d love to introduce you to my family as we share our story. …….what it’s like for a family living with Type I Diabetes.
Do you have a child with Type I Diabetes? I’d love to connect with you and hear your story. Leave a comment below so we can all get to know each other.
My son was diagnosed with type 1 when he was 5. He got out of the hospital 2 days before he started kindergarden. It was a very scary time. He is now almost 10 and doing well. We live in Soddy Daisy. He goes to Allen Elementary and is the only one there that has it. He is amazing and never complains or lets it get him down but sometimes I wonder how hard it must be for him to be the only one at his school, at our church, on his ball teams that knows what its like. thank you for sharing your family’s story.
Michelle
Michelle,
Wow, I can’t even imagine how difficult that must have been for your son to start school two days after he got out of the hospital.
My daughter doesn’t complain either, I often say she’s my hero. My daughter is also the only one at our homeschool group, church and softball team that has diabetes I know it has to be hard for her.
I live in Cleveland,TN just a hop, skip and a jump away from you. From one mommy to another with a little one with type I Diabetes thank you so much for sharing your story.
Blessings,
Kasey
Ahh, thanks for that. I’m not kleoledgwabne enough to be able to referee this point, but I can now see your case. Gluconeogenesis can be a real bugger for me sometimes. It really kicks into action for me in certain social situations, thereby turning on the Fight or Fight hormones like cortisol, which in turn counteract the insulin in my system and completely throw me out of balance. What made you choose biochem’ over molecular biology (I say this realising that they overlap a lot)?
Hey, there!I am SOOO happy to have found your blog. I have had Type I diabetes since May of ’89. Was 20 1/2 yrs old. In all hoetsny, I am still in total rebellion and I am not controlling it at all. I feel guilty about it all the time.So I decided tonight to try and get some inspiration once and for all and some emotional support by reading someone’s blog. I know it will really help me. Your blog’s title appealed to me, because that is how I feel. And yes, most people (and physicians) are clueless as to the amount of courage having this disease implies.Know that you have a reader that so understands you, it’s not even funny
xoGen, a fellow blogger from Montre9al, Canada
That’s good advice. I’ve been loknoig for any excuse I can to go down that road, but had been (and still am) a little worried about the financial implications and the amount of effort required. It’s such an integral part of my life in many other ways though. Well, if someone from the YouTubes tells me to keep trying, who am I to argue? I’m sick of doing all my own thinking! I shall obey your command master. O_O So, get degree, then become expert on whether ketones are byproducts.
My son is 6 and was DX when he was 4 years old.
Carol,
Thank you for leaving a comment and sharing with us. It means so much to have the support of other moms whose children have Type I Diabetes. How is your son doing and how are you coping?
Blessings,
Kasey
Hey, you forgot to reply’ to me again. Lucky I came back to check on you! Med shocol? I wish. I’m a mature age Arts/Science student who’s recently realised that my chemistry isn’t good enough to major in molecular biology and my maths isn’t good enough to major in genetics. I’m naturally good with language, but maths takes a lot more effort for me. I have to decide whether I drop the science or get a personal tutor in the next few months. I’ve had type1 since I was three.
Did you reply to me properly with your large meassge? Because I only received the btw comment. Just read your comment about ketones, that sounds right (not that I’m an endocrinologist), but I’m still wondering how you can justify not’ calling it a byproduct when most (if not all) of the literature I can find does? I’m not having a go at you, you just didn’t give your definition of byproduct’, so it’s still hard to tell what your problem is. So, what’s Med School like in Serbia?
Hi,You might want to read this book, it has a few pages to explain it, and then offres great diet tips as well.Dr. Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes.What is your level now? Usually there is no real reason to test the A1c more than every 3-4 months, so don’t expect your doctor to order a repeat test before at least 3 months. If your A1c was over 10, and you are now on medication, and you had no clue that you where diabetic before, then expect that your A1c has dropped, as you are now controlling your blood sugar levels.A1c is more an indicator that your health is bad or good, kinda like looking out the back window of a bus, and knowing that you are still on a highway. It will let you know if you are off the highway, but not really tell you much more than that.As long as your blood sugars stay close to 100, then your A1c test will drop to the normal range that is below 8.0 when you take the next test. But if you frequently don’t take the medication as required, then the blood sugars can reach 200 or more, leading to a high A1c test the next time around.By reading Dr. Barnard’s book, and follow it’s diet recommendations, then you can quickly stabilize the blood sugars.Once the blood sugars are more stable, then perhaps the insulin being made by the body will be adequate, or at least you can use a little less medication?By the way, the insulin will change the dangerous high levels of blood sugars into body fat. So it is better to eat smaller meals, than it is to eat a larger meal, then using insulin to change the spike in sugars into body fats.Good Luck!
yes, my large comment was to you. 2nd, it’s not med scoohl, it’s biochemistry. The reason why I’m saying that they’re not byproducts is because they are made intentionally for a purpose. You go to ketosis during starvation (or in this case diabetes). You use up oxaloacetate in your liver cells for gluconeogenesis, which in turn stops the TCA cycle, and shifts the Ac-COA flux (derived from fat) to the ketone bodies production, so that your brain doesn’t die of starvation.