Beginner Gardening: Used Coffee Grounds as a Plant Fertilizer?, 1 by MrsLidwell

MrsLidwell wrote:
sorry for not responding for so long. things in life got really hectic after the end of april for us. my daughter is currently undergoing lots of tests and visiting a lot of specialists now. her current diagnosis is something called Static Encephalopathy, though it may change to something different (as it can tend to do as we get closer to pinpointing the exact problem, this is just a general diagnosis from what i understand, however, the more reading i do on this, the more it seems as if it is accurate.) Plus we were doing a lot of preparing for the Diabetes Walk we attended yesterday, which I am proud to say that my 6 year old son's team raised over $1,000! And the total for the entire walk reached $25,000!

Anywho, m8, yes, I am well aware of the CGMs, and I have heard lots of wonderful things about them, but, my son is sooooo thin and all muscle, we have a hard enough time finding enough site locations for just his site, adding something else to him would only limit us more at this point in time. Hopefully, as he grows older, he will gain a little more fatty tissue (not toooo much though! LOL!) to be able to use a cgm and the pump. hes my little hard worker, loves doing just about anything in the garden, and you'd be surprised at his little "farm muscles" as he calls them! LOL! His health aide, who is with him from the time he gets on the school bus till the time he gets home, mentioned to me just yesterday that "he definitely has some guns on him, for his age!" LOL! so funny! But yeah, I am keeping that thought in the back of my mind for now, but currently I dont think it would be best for him right now just because we only have a few areas on his body that we are able to put a site without it hitting muscle tissues or causing other problems. Like, we cant use his belly or his legs right now... only his arms and the top of his butt. even with rotating the sites, the previous sites seem to take a bit longer to heal up well before i can put another site relatively close to it without it causing problems. so, for now, i just think it would be best to hold off on that, and our endo feels the same way. im just SO thankful for the pump though, because when I can expect high activity days, i can just easily adjust his basal to lower it so hes not getting so much insulin and will help to prevent a low blood sugar reaction.... or increase it when hes sick to prevent the possibility of ketones (though i havent got that down to a science just yet haha!)

I've included a picture of our team from the walk yesterday in case you all would like to see it, since so many of you have been touched, either directly or indirectly, with diabetes. In the photo is my son (in the grey shirt wearing sunglasses) and daughter (in the yellow shirt wearing sun glasses), my son's aide's grandson, my friends daughter, myself in the front row. then the back row left to right is my sons kindergarden teacher and her son (hiding behind my daughter lol), the head RN nurse at my sons school, a member of the school board, an LPN from my sons school, another teacher at my sons school (she didnt have him in any classes to my understanding, but her FIL who is the member on the school board is type 2 and wanted to come), my MIL in the grey shirt, behind her is my sons aide, and on the end is my friend.