The evening started easily enough. It was site change day.
Owen was in the shower doing his “get the set wet so it can come off without taking any skin with it” routine. I was in the living room doing …
Carb Counts & Campfires: A T1D Camp Adventure
For those of you with diabetes – do you remember diabetes camp?
I sure do. I went to a small camp in New Jersey called Camp Firefly. Its logo was a syringe-turned-firefly (do fireflies even have stingers, or was …
Race Recap: Run PA Trail Jamboree
Ice bandannas, Bluetooth miracles, and one very stubborn blood sugar
Last Saturday, I ran the 12-hour race at the PA Run Trail Jamboree. A running festival held in Newmanstown, PA. It was my first race since the 6-hour …
Lazy River, Tired Kids, and a Lost Shoe: Tubing with Type 1
Last Saturday, it was hot (I know, mid-July—shocker). It had been a long week, and I hadn’t really planned much (okay, anything) for the weekend. What to do?
We could go to my mom’s—she lives at the beach, and we …
Summer Exercise and T1D: Sweat, Sensors, & a Little Sanity
Yesterday was my final prep run for the endurance race I’ve got coming up in a couple of weeks. (No need to share the distance—let’s keep the illusion of balance alive a little longer.)
When the temperature rises, so does …