School has been going pretty good. Not too busy, not much homework.It's all good. My sugars have been ok, I still run high in school, but I just have to deal with it. My toe is all cleared up, thank goodness. I'm getting ready for my walk, but we have only waised about $60 so far. Nobody wants to donate it seems :(
Iam very excited for the walk.
I LOVE being a senior. I have decided not to take the SAT's again, they were just too much for me the 1st time around.
I'm going to start applying to colleges soon, so wish me luch that I get accepted by atleast ONE of them (sarcasm)lol.
I go to see the Endo at the end of October and then I see the new endo on November 3.
I'm excited about that, I can't wait to ask about a pump. Asking doesn't mean I will get one of course, but hey it can't hurt to ask right? Wish me luck!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
My walk letter!
Dear Family and Friends,
As you all know, I have had diabetes for almost 3 years, since I was 14 years old. Having been diagnosed with diabetes as a freshman in high school was really a struggle for me. I have known only a few short days of high school without diabetes. Most of you know that I have not had your typical diabetes story and diagnosis. We are still trying to figure out what type of diabetes I have. I am now on insulin 4 to 7 times per day. I cannot eat if I don’t take a shot. Sometimes I take insulin and it still doesn’t work. There are days that I can’t get my blood sugars under 200, 300 and 400 mg/dl. It makes you feel so horrible and crummy. Tired, and achy. It makes you feel as if you have the flu. It can cause you to produce ketones. They can make you really sick and even cause death. Diabetics live a very difficult life. We try to make it as normal as possible, though. It’s not always easy. It’s pretty bad when the school nurse knows you by your first name, and she can recognize you out of 900 students. It’s bad when you have to visit her 2-5 times a day. It’s bad that when you don’t check your blood sugars every couple of hours, you have no idea what is happening inside your body. We do this everyday, all day. We do it in our sleep and on our vacations. We do it in school and in work. We do it in play. We do it well into adulthood and even to death, unless we find a cure.
There are days when we can’t get our blood sugars to stay above 50 mg/dl. We have to carry so much stuff with us just to keep us safe and healthy. We carry glucose tabs, glucaon kits in case we pass out from low blood sugar. Insulin and syringes, insulin pens. Juice boxes, meters, test strips. Snacks that might save our lives. There is a fine balance between treating a low and over treating that low. We suffer everyday with not knowing what way our blood sugars are going to go. Will they be stable and good? Will they stay at 130 all day? Will I see 30 on my meter? Will I be at 450 and stuck there, despite my multiple attempts to bring it down? We are lucky with all the technology we have. They have a CGMS (continuous glucose monitoring system), but insurance companies, generally, don’t cover it, as they feel it is still experimental. We have insulin pumps, where you only have to take 1 shot every 2 or 3 days. Diabetes is so expensive. You have got test strips, lancets, ketone strips, alcohol wipes, sharps container, syringes or pen needles. You have to pay for pump supplies.
We need to save people from complications such as blindness, amputations, and neuropathy. What we need is for people with diabetes to stop getting labeled as drug addicts, and food addicts. We did not cause our diabetes. Yes, we can eat that. We take shots everyday just to stay a live, and because of that people assume we do drugs. We can put a stop to that. We can help find a cure. You are that help.
The point I’m trying to make is that having diabetes is hard. There are millions of people around the world, in many different countries, that have diabetes. Babies, toddlers, teenagers, old people, have diabetes. It has no age limit. We need to find a cure and to do that we need to raise money. You can help us help find that cure. By donating whatever you can, be it $1 or a cent, that might be all that we need and you might just be our cure. We really need your help. Not just me. For all the people living with this horrible disease. I’m asking for your help. You can walk with me and be apart of my team; you can donate just $1. Every little bit helps, and no amount is too small.
Think about this for a moment, please. What would you do if your 13-month-old baby were just diagnosed with insulin dependant diabetes? What would you do if they couldn’t talk and they couldn’t recognize low blood sugar episodes? What would you do if they couldn’t tell that their blood sugars are high and they feel crummy? You can help stop that and you can make parents feel hope again. You can give them back something, which was unjustly taken from them. You can be our cure. And for that I thank you.
Love,
Kiersten
As you all know, I have had diabetes for almost 3 years, since I was 14 years old. Having been diagnosed with diabetes as a freshman in high school was really a struggle for me. I have known only a few short days of high school without diabetes. Most of you know that I have not had your typical diabetes story and diagnosis. We are still trying to figure out what type of diabetes I have. I am now on insulin 4 to 7 times per day. I cannot eat if I don’t take a shot. Sometimes I take insulin and it still doesn’t work. There are days that I can’t get my blood sugars under 200, 300 and 400 mg/dl. It makes you feel so horrible and crummy. Tired, and achy. It makes you feel as if you have the flu. It can cause you to produce ketones. They can make you really sick and even cause death. Diabetics live a very difficult life. We try to make it as normal as possible, though. It’s not always easy. It’s pretty bad when the school nurse knows you by your first name, and she can recognize you out of 900 students. It’s bad when you have to visit her 2-5 times a day. It’s bad that when you don’t check your blood sugars every couple of hours, you have no idea what is happening inside your body. We do this everyday, all day. We do it in our sleep and on our vacations. We do it in school and in work. We do it in play. We do it well into adulthood and even to death, unless we find a cure.
There are days when we can’t get our blood sugars to stay above 50 mg/dl. We have to carry so much stuff with us just to keep us safe and healthy. We carry glucose tabs, glucaon kits in case we pass out from low blood sugar. Insulin and syringes, insulin pens. Juice boxes, meters, test strips. Snacks that might save our lives. There is a fine balance between treating a low and over treating that low. We suffer everyday with not knowing what way our blood sugars are going to go. Will they be stable and good? Will they stay at 130 all day? Will I see 30 on my meter? Will I be at 450 and stuck there, despite my multiple attempts to bring it down? We are lucky with all the technology we have. They have a CGMS (continuous glucose monitoring system), but insurance companies, generally, don’t cover it, as they feel it is still experimental. We have insulin pumps, where you only have to take 1 shot every 2 or 3 days. Diabetes is so expensive. You have got test strips, lancets, ketone strips, alcohol wipes, sharps container, syringes or pen needles. You have to pay for pump supplies.
We need to save people from complications such as blindness, amputations, and neuropathy. What we need is for people with diabetes to stop getting labeled as drug addicts, and food addicts. We did not cause our diabetes. Yes, we can eat that. We take shots everyday just to stay a live, and because of that people assume we do drugs. We can put a stop to that. We can help find a cure. You are that help.
The point I’m trying to make is that having diabetes is hard. There are millions of people around the world, in many different countries, that have diabetes. Babies, toddlers, teenagers, old people, have diabetes. It has no age limit. We need to find a cure and to do that we need to raise money. You can help us help find that cure. By donating whatever you can, be it $1 or a cent, that might be all that we need and you might just be our cure. We really need your help. Not just me. For all the people living with this horrible disease. I’m asking for your help. You can walk with me and be apart of my team; you can donate just $1. Every little bit helps, and no amount is too small.
Think about this for a moment, please. What would you do if your 13-month-old baby were just diagnosed with insulin dependant diabetes? What would you do if they couldn’t talk and they couldn’t recognize low blood sugar episodes? What would you do if they couldn’t tell that their blood sugars are high and they feel crummy? You can help stop that and you can make parents feel hope again. You can give them back something, which was unjustly taken from them. You can be our cure. And for that I thank you.
Love,
Kiersten
Monday, September 15, 2008
I signed up for the JDRF walk today
My walk is on OCtober 26, 2008. My team is Kiersten's Hope. I'm really excited as this is my very first diabetes walk, ever. I'm hopeing to raise atlwast $200. I thought that was a good goal for my fisrt time. I'm going to see if I can get a dress down day in school and have the money go to the walk. That would be so cool, wouldn't it? My sister says that would look good on college applications, that I helped organize an event. Hopefully, as I could use something that will set me apart from your avarage Joe Shmoe (roll eyes here). Anyway if you could donate cool you can go to http://walk.jdrf.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=extranet.personalpage&confirmID=87148926
I would really appreciate it,and it IS for a good cause. You can be the person who helps cure diabetes.
if you can't I do understand but I just want to thank you anyway. I know that some people can't afford it, but I thank you still. Becuase I know that if you would, you could, right?
I would really appreciate it,and it IS for a good cause. You can be the person who helps cure diabetes.
if you can't I do understand but I just want to thank you anyway. I know that some people can't afford it, but I thank you still. Becuase I know that if you would, you could, right?
Saturday, September 13, 2008
My toe is infected :(
I know that as a diabetic I have to take care of my feet, but my toe is infected. It hurts SO bad, especially when my foot is in my school shoes, because I wear tights to school and it squeezes my toes together. It has me limping, it hurts so bad
. SO I went to the doctors so she could look at it, and she swabbed it to see what kind of bacteria is on there,and gave me and antibiotic that I have to take 3 times a day for the next week. She also wants me to dip my foot in warm water and epsom salt 3 times a day, just for this weeekend. When it clears up, she told me to go see a podiatrist. Hopefully it is fine and that the antibiotic and the epsom salt clears it up. It was really painful.
On a side note, it's "that time of the month" and my sugars have been CRAZY. barely under 200 and even into the 300's. It's making me feel tired. I have a feeling that when I go for my next A1C it will still be up, but we shall see.
Anyway, I hope that everyone has a really good weekend :)
. SO I went to the doctors so she could look at it, and she swabbed it to see what kind of bacteria is on there,and gave me and antibiotic that I have to take 3 times a day for the next week. She also wants me to dip my foot in warm water and epsom salt 3 times a day, just for this weeekend. When it clears up, she told me to go see a podiatrist. Hopefully it is fine and that the antibiotic and the epsom salt clears it up. It was really painful.
On a side note, it's "that time of the month" and my sugars have been CRAZY. barely under 200 and even into the 300's. It's making me feel tired. I have a feeling that when I go for my next A1C it will still be up, but we shall see.
Anyway, I hope that everyone has a really good weekend :)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
School is going good!
Ok so school is going pretty good! I LOVE my classes. Here is my schedule
Period 1. LATE ARRIVAL, but I work in an office instead
Period 2. English
period 3. Living with numbers
period 4. history on film
period 5. theology (religion)
period 6. lunch
period 7. psychology
period 8. business law and pers. finance
My sugars have been pretty good. I have to run ATLEAST 200 after breakfast, in order for me not to drop. I even talked to the other diabetic in my grade today, asking about her pump, saying I'm going to ask about pumping in November. So, school is going good, not much homework, nothing really going on. It's time for me to go to bed, so good night and we shall meet again :)
Period 1. LATE ARRIVAL, but I work in an office instead
Period 2. English
period 3. Living with numbers
period 4. history on film
period 5. theology (religion)
period 6. lunch
period 7. psychology
period 8. business law and pers. finance
My sugars have been pretty good. I have to run ATLEAST 200 after breakfast, in order for me not to drop. I even talked to the other diabetic in my grade today, asking about her pump, saying I'm going to ask about pumping in November. So, school is going good, not much homework, nothing really going on. It's time for me to go to bed, so good night and we shall meet again :)
Monday, September 1, 2008
School starts on Thursday
I'm finally going to be a senior!! I don't really know why I said "finally" because the past 3 years have gone by really fast. I mean it feels like just yesterday that I was a freshman. The only bad thing about starting school is that it's supposed to be 93 degrees (f) again. Come on, it's been in the low 80's the last 2 weeks and now that we are all going back to school it has to be 93 freakin' degrees?
OK enough about that! I'm kind of nervous about school and diabetes this year. I will be taking insulin in school this year and that is something new to me. Also I have to keep ALOT more supplies in school. This is my list:
Humalog Pen
Pen Needles
Meter
Lancets
Lancing device
test strips
Ketone strips
glucagon kit
glucose tabs/liquid
peanut butter crackers
maybe skittles
alcohol wipes
an extra meter in my school bag
DO YOU THINK THAT I NEED ANYTHING ELSE?????? PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK I DO! THANK YOU!!!
OK enough about that! I'm kind of nervous about school and diabetes this year. I will be taking insulin in school this year and that is something new to me. Also I have to keep ALOT more supplies in school. This is my list:
Humalog Pen
Pen Needles
Meter
Lancets
Lancing device
test strips
Ketone strips
glucagon kit
glucose tabs/liquid
peanut butter crackers
maybe skittles
alcohol wipes
an extra meter in my school bag
DO YOU THINK THAT I NEED ANYTHING ELSE?????? PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK I DO! THANK YOU!!!
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