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T1diabetic for 25+ years. 2 successful pregnancies. Teacher of high school math. Married. Love to cook, strive to be healthy and happy, love my pets, love to garden,...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Contributing

It has been a while since I have written and posted.  Life has been very good and busy.  My daughter is nearing the end of her first year of college and her lacrosse season has been going strong.  It has been so fun traveling to watch her games.
I have contracted with lawyers to prepare my case for disability retirement.  There are only two highly rated law firms in the state of MD that do this.  I am grateful that I located the firm I chose who believe they can win my case, actually two claims.  One for ordinary disability through the state retirement policy and one for long term disability insurance that I opted to pay for that coverage when signing my contract 8 years ago.
Day to day life is busy with taking care of the 3 dogs we now have, caring for our horse who has a foot injury, gardening, caring for the home and preparing meals.  I love the slower pace of my life and am able to step back to care for my diabetes as needed.  My A1C is slowly coming down too.
With the warm weather expected today, I plan to bathe the horse and dogs before the cool air returns and I miss my chance.
Something occurred yesterday while driving and I am sure many of you T1's have experienced this.  I took a break from my CGM for the weekend and thought I was dropping low because my focus all of a sudden became difficult.  Luckily, my husband was with me and I pulled over so he could drive and tested.  I was 87, but the symptoms felt like I was dropping lower so I ate some almonds.  My focus slowly improved.  This feeling of reduced focus and difficulty thinking was what I dealt with in teaching day in and day out.  Whether my sugars were high or low, my thinking could be affected.  Looking back I do not know how I persisted in the classroom with the type of students I had and did not have something awful occur.
Life is much better.  For those of you new to this blog, see my history for a more in depth description to why I left teaching due to my diabetes.

Have a great day!