So I fell off the face of the earth, but Im back now.

Life has been busy and crazy but in good ways.  I have not had much free time to dedicate to blogging with 2 kids and a husband and a small farm and dogs and cats.

Tonight I am inspired to blog because of these persistant letters that Hines and Associates keeps mailing to me, for their so called "disease management". Yeah, just saying that makes me want to vomit.  These letters are nothing more than more of the fear mongering pamphlets that we get from our doctors offices and hear about from all of our family and friends. This most recent pamphlet is about teeth, gums and eye care. Yeah, GEE AFTER 17 YEARS I had NO IDEA. Come on.  

Dont eat the carbs!

This right here is why Americans with Diabetes with both types are in such bad shape. People pushing grains are behind the terrible dietary guidelines in this country. We dont need corn, oats, beans, or wheat to survive. No one does! Im not sorry grain industry, Im only sorry that we have been lied to for so many years, making so many people over weight and killing those of us with Type 1 from complications and giving so many more Type 2.

Diabetes=carb intolerance

Peanut Allergy=dont eat the freaking peanuts!

So why WHY do we keep telling people with Diabetes to eat so many damn carbs per meal?!

https://robbwolf.com/2017/01/05/why-wont-we-tell-diabetics-the-truth/

I really wish it was easier to buy real food in American grocery stores instead of all the crap ingredients like high fructose corn syrup, maltodextrin (more corn) sugar and preservatives up the wazoo. Almost every single item in the grocery store has corn and sugar in it in some form. We dont need CORN AND SUGAR in all the food we eat.

Have you ever looked at your insulin pump site up close?

Have you ever looked at your insulin pump site up close like with your cell phone zoomed in? Well do not do it. It is actually kind of gross! I had to do that today because I thought my new leg site was leaking blood.

It is not leaking thankfully since it was my second attempt. My first resulting in me hitting a blood vessel or vein, never a pleasant experience.

This is why leg sites suck for me.

Gotta love it when you bend an infusion set after its been in your leg for 3 days.   This is why leg sites are so hard for me.  They get bent.  Being thin is not always the greatest thing in the world when you rely on body fat for insulin pump sites and you cant use your abdomen at all because it hurts like hell there.

Trying some new real estate for my insulin pump.

Trying my insulin pump site on my leg again for the first time in over 4 years. My last attempts resulted in a terrific stabbing feeling on my thigh causing me to whip my pants down in a parking lot to rip it out in front of my male cousins! Haha!  It felt like a knife in my thigh muscle.

I am trying outside thigh aka saddlebag area. Lol! I dont have much fat there but more than the front of my thigh where I use to try. I figured if I can wear my dexcom sensor there without any pain, I might as well try it.  I have got to find some new real estate for my pump.  I am sick and tired of using the sides of my hip/butt area and my lovehandle area. Im hoping and praying this works.

Might attempt my calf where I have been wearing my dexcom without "much" pain. The calf/right below my knee dex site will hurt a little for a day or two but then its good. I almost give up every time I use my calf because it is a bit painful but the pain does subside.  I think its just that its a whole new area and my tissue is not at all use to being stabbed there.  The lovehandle spots use to hurt like hell at first too, but those spots adjusted somehow.

The anxiety of trying a new spot is very real. I have to psych myself up every time only because of previous attempts going badly.  So what I have been doing is squeezing the area up kind of hard to feel the pain of squeezing vs. the pain of a needle going into my skin. I have tough skin so I have to push rather hard to get my comfort short angled set into my body fat.

The joys of type 1 Diabetes....they just never stop giving! 

Please contact your Senators!!! We have got to get this health care bill stopped!!!

Now more important than EVER every person with a pre existing condition or if you know or love someone with a pre existing condition, please contact your Senators! Repealing the ACA in some ways could be ok but this bill allows states to opt out of pre existing coverage. They can charge us such high premiums once again that is it out of financial reach for millions of Americans. This is just not ok! States can also choose to not cover maternity and mental health to name a few!  I find it funny that the House voted to exclude themselves from this new healthcare law, how is that fair or legal?  Its complete crap! Lets get this terrible bill stopped in the Senate!! People we need to act, dont stand by and not speak your voice, PLEASE!!!

Imagine you have something like Cancer, Diabetes, a mental health issue or some other life long chronic disease and the premium for health insurance is completely unaffordable so you have to go without!

How does a Cancer patient survive, how does a Type 1 Diabetic survive? They dont, plain and simple. No one can afford Cancer treatment or insulin without health insurance coverage.

My insulin is $1000/mo before insurance, test strips $600/mo, insulin pump supplies around $500, my Dexcom continuous glucose monitor sensors that keeps me safe are $90 each without insurance. One sensor is FDA approved to wear for ONE WEEK.

We have to get this bill stopped, I cannot believe in America we will revert back to allowing insurance companies to over charge the sick, the people who need health care the most!! Thousands of people  are going to die if this is allowed to pass!

The links are below!


I just took action on an issue that I consider important. I urge you to take action yourself and spread the word! To take action on this issue, click on the link below: http://www2.jdrf.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=ORIXb6jlcPDhq8IFFI7dMA&id=458 If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser.


Or if you prefer to not use JDRFs form go here: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Please contact Congress to not allow states to decide about pre existing coverage.

Please dont pass by this, please go to this link and fill in your information telling congress to not allow states to choose if they cover pre existing health conditions for health insurance coverage.  If our "government" allows this to happen millions of people will lose the ability to pay for health insurance at all. People like me with type 1 diabetes will see huge premiums once again. Before the ACA I paid $10,000/yr for just myself to have health insurance. Half of my income went to health insurance premiums, co-pays and deductibles.   This cannot happen again. You think health ins costs a lot now, just wait until everyone goes to the E.R. for care instead because they cannot turn them away and then they cant afford the bill so they dont pay it. The cost of health care will just skyrocket if this is allowed to happen. Thousands of people will die because they cannot afford health care. Is this America?  Why do we not care for the   ill, instead turn our backs and say "not my problem"?

https://www2.jdrf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=472&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpJMk5URTJNV1F4TmpKaiIsInQiOiJIMzhtVzVcL2swVkRXdE1QT2Z4K2FGZ21kNVwvSWJ0MHg3a040a2pTN2t1dWwyZWtYVkxTTnV6T1REXC9NUVpGc0FwcEZaOTJnb2xVcnZFakxwUGU2UDJmVUN1eFJLRFwvXC9QdzcyeGVpeWd2MEFlT05KK0cxeWZraGNaNVwvWk1aS3Z2TyJ9

More wonderful stories and a video about Mandy.

Some articles about Mandy and all the amazing things she did.

http://www.indystar.com/story/life/2017/04/24/mandy-harris-saved-700-riley-babies-now-her-colleagues-crochet-700-jellyfish-preemies-her-memory/100611626/

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156450073394852&id=9812439851

I hate you Diabetes

Right now I am mad, I am so damn mad, why is there still no cure for type 1 Diabetes? How many more people have to die?  The treatment is still the same as 100 years ago, insulin injections, unpredictable stupid ass freaking insulin injections/pump/whatever.  I hate this stupid DAMNED disease.  I hate how it gets under my skin and makes me so scared at times, I hate how I have to worry about going low alone having a seizure and possibly dying.  I hate worrying Ill go low and my child will find me dead.  I hate worrying about my brothers with t1d, my friends, my family members all living with this stupid damned disease. I hate the terribly mean comments I am subjected to because I have Type 1 Diabetes, I hate the shitty things people say about food giving people Diabetes, I hate that it played a major role in ripping my grandpa away at a young age, I was 7, he was my father figure for the first 4 years of my life, it ripped Mandy away, it takes childrens lives and what do we have to treat it?  Still just insulin, crappy ass unpredictable insulin.  Im mad, Im just really freaking mad.  I know there are worse things out there, I get that, but I live with this stupid ass disease so I have the right to be mad and to vent my feelings.  Can we get a freaking cure yet? Or at least a better treatment? I know things are coming but damn it all to hell its just too damn late.  

How to NOT become an identity theft victim--OFF Topic Blog post

This blog post is completely off topic, as you can tell by the heading.  Life has thrown some major curve balls at me lately and the Diabetes Online Community has been shaken to the core with Mandy's passing.  I don't really feel like even talking about Diabetes much right now.  Diabetes has stolen Mandy's life and changed the course of her family's lives forever. I am so mad about Diabetes and mad that we are STILL waiting for a freaking (trying not to swear hear because I am so mad) cure.  So I don't want to talk about it anymore for a while.

During all this stupid curve ball crap my identity was stolen.  YEAH its not fun and I have learned a LOT and I want to share this all with you so that you do not become an identity theft victim yourself.  Don't be as oblivious as I was, thinking that living in cornfieldville Illinois was safe!  So hello whoever you are identity thief,  there is a special place in Hell for you when you die! 

I will list the things you all need to do right now, DO NOT DELAY!

1. Run your own credit report EVERY SINGLE YEAR for free on annualcreditreport.com otherwise these identity thieves will run it and then have all of your credit history in their hands.  They can then answer all challenge questions properly and get credit in your name, use your current credit cards and even increase your credit limit on any cards you have.  They typically won't spend the money to run your report if you have already done it. 
2. CANCEL ALL DEPARTMENT STORE CREDIT CARDS or set up a password for each card!!  All these people need is a fake ID card and your social security number and they can spend on your card.  
3. LOWER your credit limit on the ONE credit card you want to keep and also set up a password, DO NOT let them use your mothers maiden name, that info is available all over the internet, just search for yourself, you will be blown away at what is available.
4. Sign up for all the free credit monitoring websites before the identity thieves do.  This includes: www.creditkarma.com www.creditsesame.com www.quizzle.com www.credit.com www.nerdwallet.com  After these people sign up in your name they can monitor all your credit cards, loans, mortgage, etc and if you cancel a card and get a new on they will also see that information
5. Go to every single website you can find your name and information on and follow their steps to remove your name from their website
6. Do all these things for your spouse or significant other as well
7. If you have a debit card with a large daily limit get it lowered as low as you can handle
8. Take all these things I have told you very seriously as this is what has happened to me and it is a disaster.
9. Pay for some sort of credit monitoring service for you and your whole family.
10. If you are no longer using a credit card, cancel it because if you aren't watching it they will use it.
11. If your identity has been used IMMEDIATELY put a fraud alert on your credit file.  You can do that by calling the credit bureaus and using their automated system to put an alert on your file.
12. If it has been stolen, call your local or county police to file a report.   After you have your report you can freeze your credit for FREE, because after they have gotten your ENTIRE CREDIT HISTORY off the internet they can forever get credit in your name, because they KNOW all the challenge questions based off your credit history.  
13. Call the Drivers License Facility and make sure no one has come in claiming to be you to get a duplicate license, MOST of these people just fake them and of course use their own picture.  
14. Call the Social Security Office to make sure no one has requested a duplicate card
15. Any fraudulent inquiries or new credit in your name, call that company immediately to tell them it was not you and to freeze that account and to start working on getting it removed from your credit file and removing the inquiry on your credit report.  
16. OPEN ALL YOUR MAIL!  I got 2 credit cards in the mail that I didn't apply for, if I had not opened that mail I would have never known my identity was stolen. I called them immediately, found out what happened and put the fraud alert on my credit files.
17. When my brain starts functioning again I will let you know what else I have had to do!