tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post1077518785929770227..comments2024-01-22T00:46:35.341-08:00Comments on Our Diabetic Life: Challenges, and their infinite perspective.Merihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09752883120541646427noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-65615506241796232102011-07-02T09:54:00.451-07:002011-07-02T09:54:00.451-07:00Love your perspective on HOPE, especially after we...Love your perspective on HOPE, especially after we just celebrated our Happy Hope Day! I am catching up on your blog and loving it!NikDuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00339827779693006419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-4050835508004905302011-06-22T21:49:20.144-07:002011-06-22T21:49:20.144-07:00Meri, I am a huge "HOPE" fan these days....Meri, I am a huge "HOPE" fan these days. I have become aware of its power and value. Once again your post has given me the air to breath. I forwarded your post to a new Type 1 mom friend I met last week and spent some time with. Her daughter (8 years old) is struggling with the visual and mechanical aspects of D (her pump sets keep falling off and she resists all aids and extras to try to keep them on). I was trying to tell her mother exactly what you just posted. But I wasn't as smooth at it as you are (always by the way!). I told her that I wasn't a big fan of tough love on young ones and with this condition the only time tough should enter the picture is for blood tests and getting insulin into a body to keep one alive! I told her that I thought her daughter would eventually figure it out, find balance...but meanwhile, she as her mother may just have to suffer the frustrations and pain of the day to day challenges her daughter is bringing to the management. I think she doubts herself, and I wanted to hug her and tell her that she didn't do anything wrong. A sensitive kid is a sensitive kid, with or without D. The challenge is to get through it and see the other side, and know she will get there. It just might take her a little longer and be a little harder...Your words are inspiring to me, I hope she found some comfort when she read them too. <br />Thanks Meri, love Sara. =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-87915425225569115482011-06-19T20:27:03.111-07:002011-06-19T20:27:03.111-07:00Eloquently kicking me in the butt yet again, Meri!...Eloquently kicking me in the butt yet again, Meri! Thanks!<br />I need to find my hope for a turn in the road!Denise aka Mom of Beanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726979027850619807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-40883470760625876892011-06-19T08:24:16.525-07:002011-06-19T08:24:16.525-07:00I needed this today. Hubby goes abroad for eight ...I needed this today. Hubby goes abroad for eight long days this week and I am so scared of not being up to the job. We have zero support network and I'm nervous. But my perspective is not helping. I have done it before and can do it again. Love to you and your boys.Jules https://www.blogger.com/profile/01372324417732567461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-1248232711804154792011-06-18T08:45:06.318-07:002011-06-18T08:45:06.318-07:00wow, Zen thinker Meri - I am so grateful for your ...wow, Zen thinker Meri - I am so grateful for your perspective and insight. It does get overwhelming at times and that darn orb vision can make it worse, I don't know if that's where I am at or if I just feel done talking about diabetes right now, I don't know. I do know that things are okay, we're okay, but that I often feel like I am holding my breath waiting for something else, because that's just how things have gone around here for the past three years. I'm hoping this smooth sailing goes on for a while, and if not I am thankful once again for amazing people like you in my life.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03210820513382353417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-60385722076662242722011-06-18T03:32:40.691-07:002011-06-18T03:32:40.691-07:00Love your thoughts and views on perspective and HO...Love your thoughts and views on perspective and HOPE Meri. I feel that after the whole "brain lesion" scare with Joe my perspective has changed. I am thankful that we did not have to add yet ONE.MORE.THING. into the medical mix. Weird, but it helped me accept this day-in-the-life even more.<br /><br />AND...your drawing is so CUTE!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00895126112651188056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-44637461957031802972011-06-17T23:30:19.643-07:002011-06-17T23:30:19.643-07:00Thank you Meri! I have had the day from hell with ...Thank you Meri! I have had the day from hell with massive high levels, ketones and a 200% basal rate hasnt even fixed it ... <br /><br />This is exactly what I needed to hear! <br /><br />XTraceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17507289712730932380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-60912785305687686062011-06-17T13:08:43.185-07:002011-06-17T13:08:43.185-07:00I really really liked what you said about hope bei...I really really liked what you said about hope being an active thing! I have been thinking a lot about how change requires action on your part, you can"t just sit around and wait for things. If I have a problem, i need to learn to ask myself 'So what can I do about this?' and do it and HOPE ACTIVELY for the best! That is especially true with Diabetes! Great post about a lot of things I have been thinking about recently!Ryannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16182460539239728857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-53893216836574186112011-06-17T13:03:09.101-07:002011-06-17T13:03:09.101-07:00As an adult diabetic, I can verify for you that yo...As an adult diabetic, I can verify for you that you are ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY CORRECT. Eventually, you do find peace with it all. It comes and goes at times, but for the most part, you're at peace. As a parent of a diabetic...I'm taking encouragment from your words here because I'm so not at peace with Lily being diabetic. Yet.Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05515030663618274693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248101319829846491.post-29195822308768517642011-06-17T11:42:05.120-07:002011-06-17T11:42:05.120-07:00The motto for AA (of which I am acquainted) is the...The motto for AA (of which I am acquainted) is the Serenity Prayer:<br />God, grant me the serenity to accept the the things I cannot change,<br />The courage to change the things I can,<br />And the wisdom to know the difference.<br /><br />I have tried to apply this to Nicole and our challenges with diabetes. We do the best we can, one day at a time, to change what we can. But we have to accept what we cannot do anything about...and just do it again the next day, the best we can!<br /><>Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05800703687429240911noreply@blogger.com