Olivia

Most of you may not know that my daughter is a Juvenile Diabetic.
I've thought and thought about writing about her condition and had put it off because I wanted to keep this blog all about my work, but now I think it should be about me too.
Diabetes is a huge part of my life now and always has been.
My oldest brother and Father are both Type-1 diabetics, but now with Olivia, it is so much more part of my daily routine.
The pictures show some of what Olivia has to deal with being a Diabetic and being dependent on Insulin in order for her to feel okay.
The two stickers on her tiny butt are there for us to change her Insertion for her Insulin Pump.
Can you imagine having to have a 2 inch needle stuck into your butt every three days?
Most times she takes it like a champ, the patch on the right helps with that. It is a drop of a numbing cream we put in place to help with the pain before we put a new needle in.
I'm not quiet convinced of how effective it actually is.
The other picture is all the necessary bits to get her insulin into the pump and then into her.
We should be given honorary nursing Degrees for all of this!

I'm not sure why I want to share all this now, Olivia has been Diabetic for almost 2 years so maybe I'm just finally being more open about it.
Although it seems like she never wasn't Diabetic since she was only 17 months when she got sick.
That' is what is hard to take, she never had a chance to be free of it.
And the way things are she might never be.