Laugh of the Day

My sister-in-law called to give me the biggest laugh of the day. She reads this blog (as well as many others; she is a savvy, well-informed lady) and has learned a lot about diabetes & celiac through what I've written, others' comments, and diabetes365. She had an "Aha!" moment today. You see, she didn't' know what "diabetes OC"' meant. (I apologize. It means diabetes online community.) Her reference was the TV show, "The O.C." She had this picture in her head of the beautiful diabetics of Orange County, CA, slapping each other around over diabetes supplies. "Hand over that pump, you bitch!!"

Kathryn, you made my day!

First Real Snow

The first real snow of the season makes me feel like a kid again. There's something magical about the whirls of white, the frosted outline of bare branches.

I scraped up as much as I could of the 1 inch layer that was on the ground this morning for Dominic to make snowballs. We had about 20 minutes to play before the school bus came. More magic: the speed at which your child can eat breakfast when he wants to go out in the snow vs. the speed at which he eats breakfast on a normal school day.

I drove to work carefully.
The magic of the morning faded as I worked my way into traffic.

I think the change in weather came by a bit earlier than expected, and many of the streets were not clear yet. On the way I saw this truck flipped over; we all had to slow down as the police helped the tow truck driver maneuver into place.

The focus on diabetes365 this week is "maintenance." All I could think of this morning was maintaining a safe speed. In traffic, and in dealing with a chronic disease, this message is apropos. With diabetes there are unexpected turns in the road. There are days of smooth sailing, and days when you crash. No matter what, you can't take your eyes off the road or your hands off the wheel when steering through life with this disease, because it never lets up, it never takes a break, it never allows you to pull to the side of the road and sleep.

Roll, baby, roll.