guilt

Diagnosis, Early Days, Mental Health, Self Care

What I Wish We’d Known

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020by thediabeat2 Comments

This week has been a busy one for us. Our big kid celebrated his two year "Diaversary", and, because it never rains but it pours (and this has never been truer for us than in August of 2018), our little guy turned two this week too. Our house has been filled with balloons and giggles, [...]

Diagnosis, Early Days, Mental Health

May 17, 2020July 12, 2020by thediabeat1 Comment

One of the most important things I’ve come to understand since our boy’s diagnosis is that T1D is an illness of guilt. It’s an illness of “what if”s and “if only”s, of doubts and questioning. For our son, the diagnosis came almost a month to the day after a particularly bad episode of hand, foot [...]