"No Added Sugar" by Fibi Ward

Sorry if I have bad lighting......



This book has helped me so much through all of this craziness it's nice to be able to read this and know that she is my age and going through it, I like how I can relate to her stories and learn about her tricks. My favorite one of hers is where before doing the injection she lightly touches the tip of the needle to the injection spot I see if there is a nerve. Ever since I read that I do it before my injections.

Sweets?

If you are a type 1 diabetic and you are craving sweets don't say 'no' right away you have options
1• you can chew a piece of gum (there are so many flavors to choose from but the dessert flavors are not always good.
2• If you don't want to dose have a small piece of what you want and then go for a walk/run, or go work out, anything to get you heart pumping and your mind off SWEETS!
3• pop some tic tacs in your mouth and suck on them they have NO CARBS and also have a large selection of flavors
I hope these silly simple tricks help you of you are a type 1 diabetic, it sure helped me out

The weekend

After having my blood drawn and blood sugar levels taken every hour for 12 hours they told me it was time to order breakfast, and that it was time to take my IV out of my righth hand. That excited me. When they peeled the adhesive off was horrible, worse than the finger prick. When the IV was being taken out my stomach felt empty and cold. I hate IVs they hurt and you can't move your hand at all with out having to help the tube. The rest of the weekend went by fast. I learned alot, met two other boys that had been admitted the same night I was. One was 15 and the other eight. I can't imagine being eight and having diabetes, its still hard to believe I have it. I don't feel like a different person from before all of this craziness happened. I feel stronger because of it, I am not ashamed of myself. I don't wish I could reverse what has happened, that would make me weak. I am not a weak person. I do hope that someday they will find a cure for type 1 diabetes. I hope that they find it so that not only myself but every other person with it will not have too have this on their minds all day everyday. I do not like to refer to it as a disease just an unchangable lifestyle, if this is how I keep myself healthy I am more than willing to poke myself with a needle, everytime I want to eat soemthing. When my discharge papers came in I suddenly became sad, sad I had to leave the 'saftey' of the hospital and my nurse. Later that night I became sad, again because I missed my nurse. Because of her I am comfortable with all of this. The finger pokes hurt but I think of what will happen if I dont do this. The injections suck but I dont mind doing them because of her. She helped me, she let me do a practice injection on her and she never stopped smiling. Now I am home, happy and healthy. I will never stop thinking about this. And I will never forget my nurse she was there the entire weekend with me, except for nighttime.

The worst way to start February

What seemed to start off as a normal Monday quickly changed. I got into the shower feeling fine then after washing and rinsing my hair it became difficult to stand up. I got really shaky, I figured that I was hungry. So I hurried up, I got out of the shower and put something comfy on fast. I got my sweats and tank top on okay but then fell to the floor. I cried for a minute but then sucked it up put a shirt on and went to the kitchen I put two waffles in the toaster, and then one extra because I was starving. Then lined the leather chairs up and laid down on them. My dad came upstairs and asked what was wrong I explained what was wrong he told me to eat all my food and then see how I feel, I followed his directions no problem, I was going to eat everything anyways. When I herd the toaster go 'bing' I hesitated on sitting up, but I knew I would only get hungrier so I sat up, then becoming nauseated from it. I wolfed down all three waffles then laid back down on the leather chairs, and fell asleep. My dad came out of the master bedroom and was glad that I had finally gotten up but then he realized I hadn't. He asked me,
"do you think you can go to school?"
"no." I said partially glad, for I was not in the mood to go anywhere, but the couch in the living room. I watched the rest of Zeke and Luther with my brother then changed it to HGTV once he went to get ready. The entire day I sat on the couch munching on snacks then I decided to go weigh myself after I had finished. I had lost 6 pounds from the day before. I thought for sure I would have gained but no, I lost 6 pounds in one day. Later I threw up twice then again but not as much.

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday were practically like Monday minus throwing up. On Friday my mom decided to take me to the pediatrician. We went and my doctor told us whag she thought it was, she said they needed to check my blood sugar, the nurse asked me for my hand and then pricked my thumb. It turned out my blood sugar was 435 normal being under 150 and above 80 anything over 300 is dead serious, the entire week I had been slowly dying. Luckily we went to the pediatrician. She told us we needed to go to the ER because it looked like I had type 1 diabetes. When I got there we sat in a waiting room painted like Moab. Then went into a little room they weighed me I had lost 19 pounds (9 of which I have gained back) my blood sugar was now at 511 I was getting farther into DKA and closer to death. A bunch of people asked me the same questions over and over, do you have any family with type 1 diabetes? No. Any allergies? No. Any medical history? No. And about 15 more. After 2 hours of the ER and having lots of blood drawn, being hooked up to an IV they put me in a wheelchair and took me to my room. I had my own room. My own bathroom, and got to share the shower room with the other patients and their families that were spending the night. Every hour I was woken up to check my blood sugar levels, and draw blood.




Check back tomorrow for the rest of my stay at PCMC.

Reddi wip, whip cream

1 carb for 2 Tbsp, yummy on sugar free jello

Snacking

My newly found no-carb snack is almonds! They are delicious! And quite addicting when I get more time I will take a picture and post it!!! Other snacks are


•Sugar free Jell O

•Cheese sticks(jalapeño)

•Pepperoni

•Sugar free Reese's (they have some carbs)

•Sugar free chick o stick

•A little bit of sugar snap peas

•a couple of barbecue chips (1 chip=1 carb)

•Peppers and ranch (8 carbs)

•Pixie stix (7 stix=15 carbs or 2 stix is 1 carb)

I hope this helped any type 1 diabetic out there, things like this seem to help me out a ton! I'm glad I get to share my findings!

Why me?

Why was it me who got type 1 diabetes? Out of all my friends it was me, why? No one in my family has it. Maybe it's because god knew I would be strong about it, that I would take care of myself with it. That my friends would help me through it. I wish I knew it was coming, even to have a clue... If I had two wishes they would be 1) one entire day off of diabetes, one day to forget about it and eat whenever I want without having to count all the carbs in it and 2) there is a cure for it, wether they find it today or in 14 years I hope they find one.