Seriously, it's been mostly good

After writing my last post, I felt a whole heck of lot better. I needed to talk about what happened that day-- and wanted anyone reading to be aware of how quickly ketones can get out of control.

And to be prepared if they do.

Well, this post illustrates the flip side-- our norm this summer (vs the craziness of last Tuesday).

A summer filled with drama (the stage variety, that is), swimming, and baseball.

Oh so very much baseball.

While Evan was busy discovering her inner Sarah Bernhardt, Joseph came into his own at the plate, batting over 300 in the regular season and making the All Star team yet again.


He's come a long way... remember this little guy.

This season Joseph continued to thrive on the mound, pitching in both regular season and All Star tournments, but also playing other positions-- including catcher (despite being a lefty!).

And diabetes?

Well, it dished out plenty of highs and lows-- but mostly, it stayed out of Joseph's way.

Soooo, here now is a 3 minute taste of it all...

Enjoy!

A Quick One Before We Leave Town

We're in the homestretch of summer vacation and it's been crazy over here.

Late last week, my external hard drive crashed... that would be the hard drive containing backups of our documents, photos and the only copies of my edited videos (files too big to store on our laptop).

Thankfully, the Geek Squad was able to recover most of my files, however, a directory containing a large number of my edited videos was lost.

I can't even tell you how much this hurts.

So let's just move on.

In the midst of the hard drive debacle, we got a call.

"Hello-- Sandra," I heard a familiar voice say.

"Zachary?"

"Yeah, um... I'm coming out for a visit... do you think I could spend a night at your house?"

"Oh, my God-- of course you can!"


For two days and one night, it was like he'd never left.



That's why when Zach's mom said they were heading out Thursday morning with friends to a huge water park, I asked:

"How would you feel if we met you guys there?"

While I didn't want to horn in on their plans, I sure as heck knew how Joseph and Zachary would feel.

"That would be terrific," Zach's mom responded.

Soooo, despite having laundry and tons of packing to do (we leave tomorrow for a road trip to the Smoky Mountains), I drove an hour away with my kids, sat astride countless inner tubes, shot down a myriad of slides with my little girl...

While my son had yet another day with his best friend.

How did diabetes figure into all this?

Well, Joseph's blood sugar plummeted to 46 by the end of his first day with Zachary-- at dusk, the two boys working on Zach's pitching, just didn't want to come in for dinner.

Ten minutes and three glucose tabs later, Joseph was 98 and chowing down on a big plate of pasta with the rest of us.

Yesterday at the water park, Joseph was disconnected from his pump the whole time. Yes, he was high as a kite and his set came out on one of the many daredevil slides he and Zach rode down together-- but we got him back in range before bedtime.

Again, I promise I'll finish the camp story (had it half written when the dang back-up drive failed) and I really, really need to tell you at least one baseball story, but you likely won't see these until after we return late next week.

Getting Caught Up

So yes, I really am back.

Honest.

I'm just trying to figure out where to start.

You see, part of me feels that by writing about the present, I'm giving short shrift to the best summer we've had in years.

I never wrote about all the summer baseball-- or those 15 amazing days out east bonding with my siblings and their kids.

Or the swimming, fishing, and quirky fun we had in northern Wisconsin with friends.

I never even mentioned the wonderful (but way too short) visit from Zachary.

Soooo... in an effort to clear the deck, here's a three minute taste of what you missed: