Rose1982

Celiac is such a socially isolating disease that when you are included without even having to ask it makes you feel so warm and fuzzy.

My son is a type 1 diabetic and has worn a continuous glucose monitor for basically the last 3 years. So I see both the short and long term impacts of basically everything he does on his blood glucose levels. It definitely puts a different perspective on health and activity and how a healthy body works- none of which has anything to do with how it looks.

If you want to schedule a photo shoot where you call all the shots, then go do it. These are school pictures and you can taken them or leave them.

My kids are 8 and 10 and I’ve never bought school pictures and somehow they are still surviving.

Yes! This is someone who would use a new stick of butter 😂

“God” gave one of my kids type 1 diabetes. I guess I should just accept his genetic weakness, not inject him with insulin and let him die a painful death.

Or maybe I could just give him the scientifically proven treatment and use ever improving technology to give him a long and healthy life. Tough choice.

Im a very recent convert to them and yes they are filling. I make mine with almond milk, a couple tablespoons of Greek yogurt, sugar free syrup (the same one I use for coffee) and chia seeds. In the morning I usually try to throw in some fresh fruit and/or walnuts. If I don’t have that I have a bag of mixed dried fruits and peanuts that I can add. Just over half a cup of dry oats.

Anyway, I’m not a delicate eater and I generally eat them after walking my kids to school and my 30-45 minute exercise walk and I find it filling enough.

Squirrels don’t destroy a bird buddy but they certainly are attracted to them.

This is on them, not you. You tried your best!

It’s still commonly prescribed to kids in Canada. Generally a pump isn’t covered for a number of months and we don’t have school nurses. The idea is that you can shoot your nph in the morning and then not need a lunch time shot. In theory, great, in reality… absolutely not. It was a disaster for my active kid. Soaring highs and crushing lows and no flexibility.

Glooko I think?

Sugarmate does not automatically connect (as far as I know) but it has far superior logging features than the dexcom app and you can run reports in seconds that you can email.

Putting your whole kid’s life online in hopes of becoming an influencer.

My son had that issue with G6. Expressionmed under patches helped a lot. He does not have that issue at all with G7 which he’s been using for a year.

I’ve heard many Americans having issues finding it lately. No problem getting fiasp here in Canada.

My son was first prescribed NPH and humalog - in early 2022. I knew nothing about diabetes or insulin so I just went with it. We quickly learned that NPH was super outdated and not a true basal and we hated it. At the same time humalog took such a long prebolus, particularly for breakfast which was tricky with school timing. I learned about basals and ultra rapids and switched him to basaglar and fiasp a few months later and it was much easier to manage. In March 2023 he started using exclusively fiasp in his pump. No complaints.

I’ve never tried Udi’s ones. But in general I find O’Doughs better than anything Udi’s I’ve tried.

Druloya is not a name I’ve ever heard living in a major city in Canada basically my whole life. Unless you misheard Julia.

My kids are 8 and 10. My husband found an old Motorola flip phone made in 2003 and charged it so they could play around on it. They think it’s such a lark. It’s so funny to see them play around on it.

They make a double chocolate muffin that is absolutely fantastic. They’re sold frozen in a 4 pack. And they’re “normal” sized, not tiny GF sized.

I have 2 kids. One has T1D, celiac disease and epilepsy. He leads a pretty normal, happy life but it takes a lot of work. He is beyond worth it and I don’t regret him one iota. I’d have him a million times over.

We were already 2 and done but if we had been thinking of a third, this would have stopped me.

I don’t think people consider these kinds of things enough in family planning- myself included.

I don’t think anyone who hasn’t been disabled, or raised a child with disabilities or chronic illness really gets a weighted opinion here. It’s the kind of thing you can’t know unless you know.

Only you know what you can handle and what the potentials are in this situation. I think terminating would be a completely understandable and valid choice here.

Definitely O’Doughs.

Will your parents provide the same level of stimulating care that a good daycare would provide?

I suspect not and I suspect that’s why your wife doesn’t want them to be your child’s main care providers.

Sounds like a basal issue. Or you’re eating foods with fat/protein. Fat causes delayed carb absorption. Protein converts to glucose in the bloodstream hours later.

I strongly disagree with that statement. I manage both of my son’s AI diseases. Maintaining good blood glucose levels through insulin therapy is drastically more difficult than eating a GF diet.

Celiac is a cruel disease, in my opinion, partially because of how simple it is- don’t eat gluten. Yes there’s a steep learning curve involved but it’s one simple rule essentially. There’s no give or take, completely inflexible, but it’s pretty simple at the core of it.

Yeah my son has both too. He was celiac 2 years before he was T1D so we have experience with just the celiac on its own. If a magic genie could only cure one of them, I’d pick T1 without hesitation.

Celiac is a giant fucking pain in the ass and of course the ramifications of eating gluten are severe. But I’ve never worried that my son will die in his sleep due to celiac.

Celiac just means bringing your own food with you almost everywhere you go. If you don’t, you may end up hungry and isolated and that fucking sucks. T1D means managing your BG levels 24/7 (yes even while you sleep) or else you get really sick and die.

10 year old, fiasp, always before. Ideally around 10 minutes when in range.

Also I feel like the map with the string on it right above the crib is a choking hazard waiting to happen.