My Sweet Bean and Her Pod

An update from Ubergeek: Finally an UPDATE!!!! What's three years in between blogs among friends.  So I am sure many of you thought that we fell off the face of the earth or worse but nope e...

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So, Wilma (Bean's dexcom G4 CGM) has been out of use for almost 6 weeks. We started noticing lots of ???s and then lots of 'out of range' times and then had to call and reset the receiver.  Du...

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Ugh! Why does it seem to take me FOREVER to get things ready to go in the 'real' mail?!?! Thank you to all you fabulous people for waiting patiently...or not so patiently, but at least not na...

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No, I'm talking about Brylcreem...though if you got the reference, good on ya! I'm talking about Diabetic Dabs , a cool new-to-me product that I was asked to test out and offered to write about...

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....sometimes you're the bug. Well, today, I feel like I've not only been squished on the windshield, but like I've then been scraped back and forth with the wipers!! Yeah, not the best. An...

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yes, I totally made myself giggle when I thought up the title and now I can't get the song out of my head!!! Bean has been having some odd lows lately. I mentioned them on FB, and received s...

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It's that time of year again. The time when we take stock of things and set goals and hope against all odds that this will be the year those goals are met and not left by the wayside yet again....

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So this is Ubergeek and MomofBean just got Hacked by her husband.  So here is the latest.... Everyone is doing just fine.  Bean is awesome and she is in fourth grade being the most independent ...

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Congrats to the Winners of Lauren's Hope Free Stuff Friday ! Thanks to everyone who shared their tips for back to school time and for managing T1 at work. Here is the announcement from Lauren...

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Today I have the privilege of partnering with Lauren's Hope and doing a guest post AND being part of their awesome Free Stuff Friday!! I'm writing about back to school stuff and you have the c...

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Bean is off to Diabetes Camp this week. She has been looking forward to this week all summer (no, make that since she got off the bus last year!) and was super bummed that it was at the end...

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Bean is 9 and a half. She has a group of friends that see each other often, a thus, a lot of sleepovers occur. For the other girls, that is.  Not for Bean; not unless I'm sleeping over, to...

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As we all know, there are a LOT of things that come along with a chronic condition like Type 1 Diabetes.  Some of those 'things' are non-negotiable...insulin, strips, meter, etc.  And as far as...

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We have been tossing around the idea of a dog for a while.  Never anything overly serious, but always a thought in the back of our minds and always a wish in the front of Bean's mind. Of cours...

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Bean loves to swim.  Like, loves  to swim. Even before she really knew how to swim, she loved being in the water. In fact, the first time we went to the beach when she was a mere 18 month...

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The other day, Ubergeek and the girls were hanging out, watching TV...one of the many things they like to do together. ;)  (OK, just to balance out the couch potato vibe, they did bike to the pl...

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We have been enjoying the lazy days of summer around here. Granted, I've been sick for the past three weeks and Ubergeek hasn't been feeling the best either, so we're more than happy to laze th...

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yep, running a day late on this one...it's been a crazy week and I got the wonderful cold that all my students seem to have...love it when they share!! Pulling the Wildcard today... What is the...

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Today's Topic: We don’t always realize it, but each one of us had come a long way since diabetes first came into our life. It doesn't matter if it’s been 5 weeks, 5 years or 50 years, y...

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Today's Topic: Recently various petitions have been circulating the Diabetes Online Community, so today let’s pretend to write our own. Tell us who you would write the petition to – a...

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It's that time again....Diabetes Blog Week!!  So excited to be participating again....plus I'm hoping it gets me back in touch with my blog and, in turn, with all the blogs I love, and some...

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