So I found an old youtube account yesterday that I had totally forgotten about and it really crushed me to see the videos. I guess I stopped using that acct pretty soon after diagnosis because there is only 2 or 3 vids that I posted after that. It's the videos that were from the summer pre-D that really upset me now because NOW I see everything. Now I know that the reason that he used to scream and have wild mood swings was because D was attacking his sweet little body. Now I see the paleness and all that weight loss omg so much weight loss. My family are not all skinny minnies like my Mom, most of us are average size with a bit of squish :) So to see my kiddo who was once like the Michelin man all skin and bones really scares the hell out of me now. I just want a cure for all of our children, I want to be able to tell him that this is all going to be over now and that he can lead a normal carefree life. I would give my pancreas to him in a heartbeat if I could...why can't I?
here's a few vids that were literally shot back to back and you can see the mood swings. happy. sad. happy. This was 2 weeks before DX and he is so skinny :(
video 1
video 2
video 3
and now for the after DX video...feeling better clearly. Notice the booty bounce lol.
after
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
G.I Joe Said it best..."Knowing is half the battle"
I think back to the days before diabetes was in our lives and I have bittersweet feelings. Yes we were an almost picture perfect family (who isn't) but I look back and wonder if I had of known more about Diabetes would he have gotten as sick as he did? I know that's crazy to even think but sometimes I go there. You know the place where us D-Moms go and wonder if our babies are this way because of something I did, or didn't do, or did wrong. The blathering in my brain goes on and on in my head like this sometimes; even though I know that this is just something in his genetic makeup that I could never have seen coming or stopped.
Colin was sick for a while before his diagnosis at 5 years old and I thought I was being paranoid taking him to the pediatrician all the time and nothing was getting better. He lost so much weight and I just brushed it off as him losing baby fat and being really active over the summer. Same goes for his appetite and his extreme thirst, I just figured it was because it was so hot and we were out at the park and pool all the time.
I remember him having episodes where it seemed like my little angel was possessed by a demon, crazy mood swings and his breath smelled horrible. I will NEVER forget that smell, I always give him a little sniff if his sugars are really high cause that's my early warning system lol. His breath smelled like a sweet metallic smell, that's a bad smell it means we need to be at the hospital.
I was 2 words into this paragraph and Diabetes came a knocking...
Anything below 4 is a low and I hate to even see the 4's to tell you the truth because he feels shaky and sick when he is in the 4's. But the upside is seeing this face 20 minutes later as he eats his peanut butter toast and relaxes so his sugar up for bedtime.
There he is pointing to this rubber worm hanging from the ceiling lol He looks like he's feeling better but he is just starting to come around, he's a champ.
Bwahahahaha!! So now that I'm completely off track here, you can see how diabetes does that to your life...ALL THE TIME. But we roll with it :)
Bottom line here folks here are the signs and symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes, please read them and share with other Moms, Dad's, Grand parents and Aunties and Uncles.
Knowing the warning signs for type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) could save a life.
If you or someone you love exhibits one or more of these symptoms, call a doctor immediately.
Colin exhibited ALL of these symptoms except bed wetting and we just made it to the emergency room in time that they were able to save his life. If someone hadn't said "diabetes" to me that night as he went to bed I don't know if would have made it to the hospital on time. I am so glad that I had heard that and looked up diabetes and realized that he was experiencing 6 of the symptoms and we got him to the ER.
I don't want to hear about another child going undiagnosed and dieing, it breaks my heart and I think everyone should know what to look for. Please share this information with all of your loved ones.
You could save a life.
xoxoxo
If you still feel like reading here is the beginning of Colin's story. I can't bring myself to write the second part yet.
Colin was sick for a while before his diagnosis at 5 years old and I thought I was being paranoid taking him to the pediatrician all the time and nothing was getting better. He lost so much weight and I just brushed it off as him losing baby fat and being really active over the summer. Same goes for his appetite and his extreme thirst, I just figured it was because it was so hot and we were out at the park and pool all the time.
I remember him having episodes where it seemed like my little angel was possessed by a demon, crazy mood swings and his breath smelled horrible. I will NEVER forget that smell, I always give him a little sniff if his sugars are really high cause that's my early warning system lol. His breath smelled like a sweet metallic smell, that's a bad smell it means we need to be at the hospital.
I was 2 words into this paragraph and Diabetes came a knocking...
Anything below 4 is a low and I hate to even see the 4's to tell you the truth because he feels shaky and sick when he is in the 4's. But the upside is seeing this face 20 minutes later as he eats his peanut butter toast and relaxes so his sugar up for bedtime.
There he is pointing to this rubber worm hanging from the ceiling lol He looks like he's feeling better but he is just starting to come around, he's a champ.
Bwahahahaha!! So now that I'm completely off track here, you can see how diabetes does that to your life...ALL THE TIME. But we roll with it :)
Bottom line here folks here are the signs and symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes, please read them and share with other Moms, Dad's, Grand parents and Aunties and Uncles.
Knowing the warning signs for type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) could save a life.
| Warning signs of type 1 diabetes (these may occur suddenly): | |
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Colin exhibited ALL of these symptoms except bed wetting and we just made it to the emergency room in time that they were able to save his life. If someone hadn't said "diabetes" to me that night as he went to bed I don't know if would have made it to the hospital on time. I am so glad that I had heard that and looked up diabetes and realized that he was experiencing 6 of the symptoms and we got him to the ER.
I don't want to hear about another child going undiagnosed and dieing, it breaks my heart and I think everyone should know what to look for. Please share this information with all of your loved ones.
You could save a life.
xoxoxo
If you still feel like reading here is the beginning of Colin's story. I can't bring myself to write the second part yet.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Colins Story Pt. 1
It was the August before Senior Kindergarten started and we had signed him up for 2 weeks of day camp at the Boys and Girls Club. He went for the first 4 days and then he got so sick that he never went back (I was actually upset over the money loss from missing the entire second week, something like $200...how silly of me).
I took Col to the pediatrician and he brushed his illness off and said it was bronchitis and chicken pox, really? He was sounding like he had croup and was covered in a "lacy pink rash" but not in the places where chicken pox usually show up first. Now to give you a bit of back story on our pediatrician I will have to say that he was often wrong in diagnosing Colins illnesses, I always got a second opinion at a walk in clinic and he was always wrong so I hadn't really been taking Col there unless it was something like vaccines otherwise we went to the walk in. I was really worried though because Colins behaviour was also becoming unlike him. He was getting up 10-15 times in a night and drinking and peeing like crazy, he was ravenous in the day and his sweet little happy-go-lucky personality was quickly fading. I remember two nights before he ended up in emerg Todd and I were giving him a bath and having a good time and he bonked his head on the side of the tub. Nothing hard at all he just leaned over and bonked it...and he stood right up in the bath and screamed a blood curdling scream that seemed to last forever. Then he took a big breath and he sat back down as if nothing happened. My eyes nearly popped outta my head because that was so weird and out of character. By the next night just before bedtime Todd said to me that we need to get online and look up symptoms of Diabetes because his mother told him that it sounds like that to her. I nearly shit my pants, diabetes? wtf? So we put our sweetie to bed and went to the computer and googled symptoms of diabetes. The shock of my lifetime, there it all was I knew things would never be the same. Todd stayed at the house and I went to a neighbours to ask him if he could call his sister (ER Nurse) so I could ask her about Colin. I had no idea how serious diabetes was yet I just knew Colin had the symptoms. She told me that if he wakes up tonight that we have to get him to Emerg as fast as we possibly can, and that's exactly what we did.
Around 3 am he got up and tried to go to the washroom but he was confused and didn't know where it was, his eyes and legs were not functioning at 100% either so he cried that he couldn't walk or see and Todd and I sprang into action. We didn't have a car at the time but I had asked my neighbour if he could keep the phone close by in case we needed a ride to the hosp in the night. As soon as we got to Emerg they pricked his little finger and got him into a bed...33 was his blood sugar. That didn't mean anything to me because I didn't know what good blood sugar numbers were. They told us that he has lots of keytones in his urine as well, what the hell are keytones?!
I took Col to the pediatrician and he brushed his illness off and said it was bronchitis and chicken pox, really? He was sounding like he had croup and was covered in a "lacy pink rash" but not in the places where chicken pox usually show up first. Now to give you a bit of back story on our pediatrician I will have to say that he was often wrong in diagnosing Colins illnesses, I always got a second opinion at a walk in clinic and he was always wrong so I hadn't really been taking Col there unless it was something like vaccines otherwise we went to the walk in. I was really worried though because Colins behaviour was also becoming unlike him. He was getting up 10-15 times in a night and drinking and peeing like crazy, he was ravenous in the day and his sweet little happy-go-lucky personality was quickly fading. I remember two nights before he ended up in emerg Todd and I were giving him a bath and having a good time and he bonked his head on the side of the tub. Nothing hard at all he just leaned over and bonked it...and he stood right up in the bath and screamed a blood curdling scream that seemed to last forever. Then he took a big breath and he sat back down as if nothing happened. My eyes nearly popped outta my head because that was so weird and out of character. By the next night just before bedtime Todd said to me that we need to get online and look up symptoms of Diabetes because his mother told him that it sounds like that to her. I nearly shit my pants, diabetes? wtf? So we put our sweetie to bed and went to the computer and googled symptoms of diabetes. The shock of my lifetime, there it all was I knew things would never be the same. Todd stayed at the house and I went to a neighbours to ask him if he could call his sister (ER Nurse) so I could ask her about Colin. I had no idea how serious diabetes was yet I just knew Colin had the symptoms. She told me that if he wakes up tonight that we have to get him to Emerg as fast as we possibly can, and that's exactly what we did.
Around 3 am he got up and tried to go to the washroom but he was confused and didn't know where it was, his eyes and legs were not functioning at 100% either so he cried that he couldn't walk or see and Todd and I sprang into action. We didn't have a car at the time but I had asked my neighbour if he could keep the phone close by in case we needed a ride to the hosp in the night. As soon as we got to Emerg they pricked his little finger and got him into a bed...33 was his blood sugar. That didn't mean anything to me because I didn't know what good blood sugar numbers were. They told us that he has lots of keytones in his urine as well, what the hell are keytones?!
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