Children's Congress 2013

So, I got an email the other day from Juvenation(kind of like facebook for diabetics through JDRF). It was about the 2013 Children's Congress. I had never heard of this before so I decided to look it up. It's held every two years in Washington, D.C. 150 applicants from across America meet there with members of Congress. The representatives explain to members of Congress what life with diabetes is like and why research to find the cure for diabetes and its complications is so critical. They urge Congress to take action to help cure, treat, and prevent type 1 diabetes. 

I think that this is awesome. Just saying. 

So...I am in the process of applying to be a representative for Indiana. I'm really hoping I get chosen. I have no idea what the chances are of me being selected, but I thought I may as well try. The deadline is on Thursday, November 1. If you haven't applied, you should! Even if I don't get chosen, it would be pretty cool if you did!! If you'd like to apply the link is:  http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=115193

Have any of you ever gotten to be part of the Children's Congress before? What's it like? Let me know!! :)


Good night!!

Love, 
Sam :)

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School!

So as I've mentioned before, there are quite a few t1 diabetics at my school. So like all of my teachers know what it is but don't really know anything about it or how we take care of ourselves. Even the nurse asks me if I need to do a correction when I'm like in the 80s or 90s... Obviously I'm not going to do a correction for that...

Probably the worst thing about school with diabetes us the number of other students who don't know I'm diabetic and act super shocked when I tell them I am. If I say something about having diabetes they act COMPLETELY shocked and usually treat me slightly different after. I mean I don't advertise to everyone that I am one and I got diagnosed over summer break so I guess that's why they don't realize it...

I hate it if I get a low insulin warning in the middle of a lecture or test or something, too. My teachers always think it's a cell phone and yell at me to turn it off. So when I tell them it's my pump they have this like "oh crap" look on their face and get embarrassed. Then the whole class looks at me which is just super awkward... One time it went off while a was taking a test in my English class and my teacher turned around and yelled, "Seriously?!?!" I told her what it was and she didn't even say a word.... The whole class looked at me and were like "OMG I can't believe she yelled at you and then isn't going to apologize!!" yeah that was the absolute most awkward thing that's happened to me...

Does anyone have any super awkward things that have happened to you? Comment and share your awkward moment!

Love you all!
  ~Sam :)

Lows and Highs...

Hi there!! 

So...lows and highs...where do I even begin???

First off, I hate my BGs being off. It's great when they're normal or even a tad bit high, but I hate it when they're low/really high...

My BG is probably below 70 1-3 times a week depending on what I'm doing that week. Over the summer when I was in marching band, I would always be super careful to make sure I didn't go low, so I would probably only go low no more than once a week. But, not since school started it's a bit different. For some strange reason I was low yesterday and today when I checked before lunch after band. I have literately been eating the same thing for breakfast every day since school started. I've been eating Goldfish (I don't like normal breakfast food and they're so delicious) on the bus and I never do insulin because I have learned last year and the year before that I would be in the 50s everyday. This whole year my numbers have been great...until yesterday.. I absolutely hate being low at school, mainly because I can't focus on anything. And I feel like I could eat like 3 lunches. And because people think it's cool that I get to drink a CapriSun when I'm low...umm...yeah. I think they're crazy, but I guess they just don't understand what it feels like. 

Now for high BGs.. I actually have never had a BG above 375ish in the 2 years I have had diabetes. I don't know why... But it's a good thing. A lot of people talk about how high they go, but I never do for some reason. Most of the time I'm not above 180. If I'm anywhere above 200 though my mom absolutely freaks out and thinks I didn't do enough insulin and blames me for it. Or, she thinks there is a major problem and wants to call the Diabetes Center. It's kind of annoying... Yes, sometimes I do go high because I didn't do enough insulin, but it's not all the time. And I know she's just trying to make sure I'm staying healthy. Whenever I go to the Diabetes Center for clinic they are always shocked when they see how well controlled I am, and so I can't complain. They have actually called me the poster child for diabetes before which is kind of weird, but weird in a good way. 

I've actually wondered before if the reason I am so controlled is because we caught the diabetes early. I don't know if it has to do with anything or not, but everyone I know that got diagnosed was pretty sick and I never really was. I had ketones but never went into ketoacidosis. They told me I would have if we would have waited though. So, I don't know.. I would think someone would have came up with that idea before, but I've never heard of it.. Hmmm...

Well, I hope you had a great week and that you have an awesome weekend!

Love, Sam

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