SPEAK PEAK for EMMA & Life as a Diabetic

A little treasure has been sent off, with love to Emma, our sweet little Valentine. This is her first Valentine’s Day. Time is moving so quickly. Soon her year of firsts will be over. It seems like it was only a month ago she came into this world and now she’s cruising toward her first birthday.




Not much news on the home front. I did make a goal for myself in the exercise dept. I’m one of those people who absolutely requires goals in order to get anything accomplished. By summer I would like to be able to walk downtown and then run the loop around the lake and then walk home. It’s a pretty hefty goal right now, but time will tell.

As a diabetic who is supposed to be on insulin and is fighting it every step of the way, I am hopeful that running/walking every day (instead of every other day) will keep that needle at bay. The main reason I’m fighting it so hard is that as I get older my sugar gets worse, and the longer I can stay off insulin the less amount I’ll have to take it as I get older. My numbers are high – actually really high, and they have been for quite awhile now. They have never been good since I was diagnosed, but they haven’t been this bad since my diagnosis. Before anyone mutters under their breath “stop eating”…I can’t control what happens to my liver at 3am when I’m sleeping, so don’t jump all over me for that – OK? Ahhhh, I feel better now that I have that off my chest.