I seem to remember flashes of those moments surrounding the diagnosis. The days leading up to it, the visit to the pediatrician to confirm, waiting for hours in the emergency department, finally settling in upstairs for the long night ahead, the constant beeps and alarms throughout the night, my daughter asking the nurse every time she walked in to silent the alarms if she could eat, eating cold eggs the next day at the clinic, meeting the clinicians for the first time. But despite how much I can clearly visualize just thinking of and recalling, there are a lot of things that just didn’t stick. I think I asked our diabetes nurse educator the same questions daily for two weeks. There was simply too much information to process all at the same time. Too much to remember. Too much to calculate. Living day to day finally took on new meaning.
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Creativity, Inc. - By Ed Catmull
I recently finished this book and already want to re-read it. I will admit its not for everyone, there were quite a few negative reviews on Goodreads that almost turned me away. But it was the right book for me at the right time. It is a book on business people management. Or at least that is what the intent was…. Introducing a new series, hoping this gets me writing more. I’m calling it my 5 & 5 series. Each post will take a topic and point out 5 pros and 5 cons. While I think it is always important to focus on the positives in life, I think it helps to recognize the negative attributes and be aware of them to help minimize the impact that you allow them to have on you. Driving down a street you want to be able to see the potholes in order to avoid them.
So for the first topic I have chosen TECHNOLOGY. Now this is one that may come up more than once because there are so many more pros and cons than just 5, but this is a topic that has come up in some of my conversations lately and one that is tied very closely to the advancement in treatment of T1D. So let’s begin…. My sister has a few pet peeves. Two of which are listening to my mom drink orange juice and listening to me slurp my soup off the spoon. I get it. It can be very irritating. It can come off as obnoxious. And to an extent, those are both things we could do differently to not sound so loud while eating.
I get annoyed myself listening to people chew their gum (“like a cow” as the saying goes). Depending on the person, I more often than not say something and politely (or less politely if family) ask them to chew with their mouths closed. But here’s the thing, I chew with my mouth closed! |