: About Me

Residing on the island of Oahu. Formerly born and raised Chicagoan. Sports fan and free time is spent surfing the internet and catching poker on television. I enjoy photography here on the island. I find I can be way more active living here with the year round beautiful weather. Cooking out on the patio. Life in the slow lane. Mother of two and grandmother of one. More about me can be found on myspace http://www.myspace.com/barbiethisandthat

My passion is ...

writing and photography.

I know too much about ...

chronic pain.

My parents always told me ...

tell the truth.

My childhood ambition ...

be a nurse. I was far to artistically minded though rather then scientific. I had a problem with the Math and Science! Thats a joke!

My favorite memory ...

fishing in Wisconsin at 5am in a boat.

Why I write ...

I find it a form of self examination in many ways. Im not particularily schooled in many ways, but I have lived an interesting life.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The ocean waves off in the distance up the block.

My first job ...

Woolworths Cashier. Memories are counting plastic flowers for inventory, not a job I recommend.

My best moment ...

The birth of my two children and watching them grow.

My inspiration ...

Mother Teresa

Health & Fitness > Diabetes Diabetes (Type 1): Symptoms and treatment

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My first exposure to symptoms of onslaught type 1 diabetes occurred en route home from a White Sox game back in 1986. My ten year old daughter expressed a huge desire to relieve herself and suddenly in the car she involuntarily did so. I was unaware that my greatest fear would soon unfold and she would become a type 1 diabetic. Unbeknown st to myself and her father, what the Dr. termed the flu, was in fact, diabetes. Over the course of a few weeks she lost weight and drank a lot of water. Her blood sugar was on the rise. On a Thursday she was taken to the Doctor, at which time he expressed...

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