A few weeks ago, Mackenna and I were driving home from an ice cream date and she was asking some questions about her great grandparents. I told her a few things about them and talked about how she’d get to meet all of them in heaven some day. The conversation continued on something like this… “So […]
December 8th, 2017. Mackenna has officially lived half of her life with type 1 diabetes and exactly half without it. Just for today. Tomorrow, she will have lived with type 1 diabetes for longer than she has lived without it. LIVED. She has LIVED with type 1 diabetes. She has lived well. She has learned, […]
We all have hard things. Maybe it’s a diagnosis, like type 1 diabetes, or celiac, or cancer. Maybe it’s a difficult family situation. Maybe you’re in a season of financial stress. Maybe you’ve lost someone and you don’t know how to keep going without them. Maybe you’re lonely, sad, exhausted, frustrated. Maybe, right in this […]
Yesterday, I read a question posted online by a mother of a newly diagnosed child. This was their family’s first Halloween with type 1 diabetes and she was looking for suggestions on how to manage the holiday. I remember our first Halloween, and our first Thanksgiving and Christmas and Valentines Day and birthday party…all those […]
Four years ago today, the bottom fell out from beneath my feet. “I have good news and bad news,” the doctor said. “The good news is that Mackenna is going to be just fine. The bad news is that she has type 1 diabetes.” In some ways, I knew what that diagnosis meant. But four […]
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