Participating in this week’s Diabetes Blog Week has been an exciting experience and I am glad I participated in it. I have wanted to become more active online in regards to my son’s diabetes and this was a good way to jump start my activity. This week got me out of my comfort zone a little bit by discussing some topics I would not have thought about discussing.
Topics like “Ten things I hate” ; as I stated in that blog I don’t like dwelling on the negative so I had a tough time at first coming to the reality that there are things that really do get to me or if not to me to my son. “Dear Glugagon” allowed me to re-post a poem I wrote a few years ago when I wrote a short book about my family and our experience with T1. I took the poems and stories from the book and posted them on my Juvenation.org/Mstangs blog over time so it was nice to put a different spin on the topic.
I especially enjoyed the Vlog. I have always had a webcam on my laptop (which I’ve had for about 2yrs now and hardly ever use) so there really was no excuse why I hadn’t posted any videos earlier. Aside from it being a time consuming (if you choose to edit it, or make a movie) task I will surely be posting more Vlogs. I am looking forward to posting the second and possibly third halves of the one I posted. The original video was too long so I have to break it up, and have not gotten a chance to post the rest yet. “Snapshots” was also fun and different. I have posted pictures before but they are usually only of events and things like that. It was kind of silly to take pictures of all my son’s supplies and upload them as if no one uses these same types of supplies; but; it was just for fun and doing things like that can lighten the load.
I am Thankful for the experience and look forward to doing something like this again in the future! I pray for all of you out there who are living with T1 or have a loved one you support who is living with it. It is my prayer that God helps all of us stay in PERFECT PEACE, Peace that surpasses all understanding. His peace gives us strength to carry on another day and hope for the future. Believing for a cure, Lorraine