ARE YOU KIDDING ME...What is going on with these last few day and ignorant people

To all do not go to this guys site. I just tried and I was given a security warning! I'm not sure what that is all about but I do not want bad things happening to your computer! So click at your own risk!
So I can NOT believe what I just read on my blog this afternoon. After I spend all morning with Joanne trying to get the word out about our t-shirts I received this comment at the end of my t-shirt post:

Health Pain said...

The overweight is harmful for the health, because it can affect our organism, like the heart, increases the pressure sanguineous, to cause diabetes, drop, artrosis, arterial hypertension, etc. The best way to lower of weight is to eat a good healthy diet and to make exercises. When making exercises burn more calories.

October 26, 2009 12:31 PM

I'm still pissed I' sure there will be more that I will need to say to this person! and I'm really not sure what the person's point is??

My comment:

Nicole said...

First of all I'm not sure who you are but my blog is about Type 1 diabetes which is not caused by "the overweight" as you call it. Type 1 diabetes is an auto immune disease not caused by being overweight or lack of exercises. There is NO CURE for Type 1 diabetes!! please get your facts right!!!

October 26, 2009 12:45 PM

I was just wondering if there was anything else that you ladies would love to say to Health Pain? This just goes to show we really need to get our voices out there and spread the education and the BLUE!!

Get you World Diabetes Day Shirts

World Diabetes Day Shirts

If you need to order a shirt for any of the 50 states please send an email to shirts@helpmefred.com and include the number of shirts, sizes and shipping address. Then, go to Paypal and send the money to shirts@helpmefred.com using your credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express).

If you are in Canada, the shirts will cost $7.00 CAD. The total price will depend on how much it will cost to ship. For Canadian orders, email wecaralot@gmail.com. with your number of shirts, sizes and shipping address and I will get back to you with the total price.To pay, just go to http://www.paypal.com/, and enter that email in the "to" line.

In order to get the shirts to you by World Diabetes Day (November 14), we need you to send in your order and payment Tuesday, October, 27th.

thanks for your help Joanne! :)

Welcome to my Holland

I posted this on facebook after I read it from a few other D mothers so I thought that I would share it here.

By Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy." But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place. So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss. But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Welcome to My Holland

The team of support :)

Cara has 4 shot's a day

sometimes it is very scary and I need a little help.

This was taken just after she was dx . She had lost sooo much weight

There are good days,Cara at the JDRF Community KickOFF

and sometimes we have "lows" and Cara does not feel so well.

Sugar-Free Candies

O.K. diabetics and diabetic family members of the world my husband and I are opening a candy store very, very soon and I would love to have a sugar-free candy section. So I'm asking for any suggestion of good or bad candies that you or someone that you know may have tried. I need advise on what to look for in a sugar-free candy because I know that some sugar-free candies can cause a lot of stomach irritation. So let me have it all and any opinion that you have on sugar-free candy please it would help greatly!!

Just When You Think They Might Get It...

So if you read my blog you know that Cara and her first year of J.K. has not had the smoothies start. First the nurse that we scheduled to be there for BG checks before Cara gets on the bus to go home never showed the first day. Second the meeting that we had scheduled to educate the teachers and principal of the school about Type 1 was canceled because people were not correctly informed of it. Third when rescheduled only Cara's teacher was there at the meeting. No one from the office including the principal (the one who scheduled the meeting) was there nor was the gym teacher who we specifically asked to attend . At this meeting I went over the fact that I send Cara to school every day with a Carb snack, because if I don't her BG drops too fast and too low from a safe number that the nurse does not treat to a very dangerous number that NEEDS to be treated by the time she gets off the bus. So I would rather have her running a little bit high then too low on the bus. So I specifically told the teacher first if there is ever a special snack like cupcakes for a birthday to take off all the icing and to write me a note to let me know that she has eaten something like that and of course if you have any questions please call me. Second you MUST NOT give her the carb snack that I have packed if she is going to eat a special snack. That would be WAY to many carbs for Cara to have at snack time (like I said I'm already running her high) A few weeks later and the teachers and the school seems to be doing a great job with Cara. But on this day she got off the bus and I grabbed her back pack and read her meter 20.3. OK she is high and as we all know there are many different reasons for that. Then we get in the house make lunch and take her BG she is 23.0. Hmmm I asked Cara if she had any thing special at school to eat she says no. I grabbed her back pack to see if there was a note informing me of any special treats, no note. I looked at Cara again and I noticed that she is wearing a pair of pajama pants. Cara I said why are you wearing a pair of pajama's pants? She tells me that for snack she had her yogurt (which I packed) and spilled some on her pants so she needed to change and she also got to have a yummy cupcake. WHAT I immediately called the school and ask to speak to her teacher. I said I was just wondering if Cara had anything extra today for snack? Oh yes she said a parent brought in some cupcakes so I took the icing off and gave her a cupcake. Well I said I just wanted to make sure that you understand that I need that written down because Cara does not always remember to tell me what she ate in the day. Yes she said I spoke to your husband he was at the school bringing Connors project in and told him that cupcakes were being brought in today. He told me to swap the yogurt (and her voice started to slow) for the cupcake. Yes I said and she had her yogurt too! I told her 1 month earlier the nurse told her 2 weeks earlier and my husband told her that morning not to give her two snacks and she can't remember? So I politely explained to her what exactly happens to Cara's blood and the changes that her body goes through and why it is not good or healthy to have high blood sugar. Her responds to that information was yeah but she spilt most of her yogurt on her leg any ways and isn't low blood sugar more dangerous. OMG!! my jaw dropped...you just don't get it and you never will. Thank God that she spilt most of her yogurt on her pants....the angels are always watching :)

A theme today? November 14th World Diabetes Day

I was doing some early morning reading of blogs (Joanne and Meri) today and I noticed a theme ....WORLD DIABETES DAY so I thought that I would follow suit.

First I just wanted everyone to know that there was or still is a moment (I'm not sure) to get google to do a doodle on WORLD DIABETES DAY, which by the way is November 14th. I do believe that I received an email stating that google has said no, but maybe next year, but I could not find it so I may be wrong......it does happen once and a while!! lol So here is one link that I used to petition for a doodle on google.

http://www.diabetesdoodle.com/

Now for some interesting information about World Diabetes Day that I found on

http://www.worlddiabetes.ca

http://www.worlddiabetesday.org

World Diabetes Day is a birthday celebration on a global scale. It was created to raise awareness of the diabetes epidemic, which now affects 246 million people and their families around the world. World Diabetes Day is celebrated every year on November 14. The date was chosen because it marks the birthday of Canadian Sir Frederick G. Banting, who, along with Charles Best, is credited with the discovery of insulin in 1921. Way to go CANADA!!!

The blue circle:

World Diabetes Day is represented by a blue circle logo. The blue circle, noted for its symbolism of positivity, life and health, is the global symbol of diabetes and signifies the unity of the global diabetes community in response to the diabetes pandemic.

My Plan:

My plan for World Diabetes Day is ever changing, one thing for sure I will be lighting my house with blue lights all day and night. Also there has been some talk on Joanne's blog about trying to order some t-shirts for that day. Which I think is a wonderful idea!! I will keep everyone updated on my World Diabetes Day plans I have many different ideas and creative ideas to get the word out.

P.S. I also have a bring diabetes to light banner at the bottom of my blog to mark World Diabetes Day. I believe that you can click it and get one for your blog or social networking page or you can go to www.diabetesbluecircle.org ..... I hope!

Some time spent with T1 mom's

Recently I was invited to an event for T1 mom's put on by our diabetic clinic NO KIDS ALLOWED. It was a chance for us mom's to get together and share stories, frustrations and gossip ;) It was at a pottery decorating store, at first I was very hesitant, I'm not the most creative person but by the end of the night I did not want to leave that place. They have shelves and shelves of unfinished pottery. You pick the piece that you would like to work on and you paint it the way you wish and by the end of the night you have a beautiful piece of pottery that they glaze and bake.
It was amazing to spend some face to face time with other women that are going through some of the same things that you are. It was nice to see some old faces. One of the other mom's that was there, her 2 year old son was at the hospital and diagnosed the day before we were with Cara when she was first diagnosed. Another mom that I had met and sat next to at our Telus walk for the cure community kickoff was also their. Her brother died of a diabetic induced heart attack at the age of 29 I believe?. The next day or so she was in the hospital with her 3 year old daughter who was being diagnosed with T1. The really freaky part of her story is that she looked at her brothers BG meter after his death and his BG was the exact same number that her daughters BG was at her time of diagnoses. There where also some new faces. One of the mom's has 2 daughters diagnosed within 3 months of each other..... boy how hard would that be? I thought of you Meri and I told her about you too! It was a great group of ladies!
It was also a learning experience for me. I learned if your T1 child is low at a fair the first thing that you grab should not be the cotton candy. You are wasting valuable time trying to force feed your child because cotton candy does not have a lot of carbs. Who would have thought? well I did not.
I had a wonderful night and I hope to do it again very soon. By the way I pick a beautiful princess money bank figurine for Cara's birthday that is coming up in November, I hope she loves it!!