My Blog

I am going to be taking a short break from writing my blog until October 30th, which is the date of the Walk for the Cure.

One of the items on my bucket list is to be a published author. The year that I got pregnant, I had a book deal in the works for me through SAS to write about the Casino industry, an area that I am very focused on at work. Then, I got pregnant with our boys and decided that the timing was not right for me to take on such an endevour. It would have put a lot of pressure on me after the boys were born to travel and promote my book at Gaming conferences globally and that was not my priority.

The goal for this first year blog was twofold - 1. update family and friends about our family advantures and 2. document our first year of dealing with diabetes. After doing this for a year, I have decided to take 6 weeks off to compile the content to be published most importantly for our boys. I want them to have something that can give them insight on this significant year of our lives. Something that will show them what their parents are made of and how surrounded by love they are by family and friends. Something for them to show their own children and look back on when they are older and we are all gone. I also plan to submit the manuscript to a few publishing houses hopefully with the help of JDRF. I believe the content of this first year blog could really benefit other newly diagnosed families.

As we start our second year of diabetes, we have made a decision to yet again give him the most leading edge care as possible. Today, we switched Chance over to a newer insulin called Novalog. It is supposed to be quicker acting and a more stable molecule making it a much better insulin for pumpers. We are hopeful that this new insulin will improve his care even more.

Until October 30th......