my little turtle :)

NEW BABY!!

Thursday was the day :) My cousin Eric texted me about 9am saying they just induced his girlfriend, Crissy. I hurried to get ready, (which took a while because I had to do a site change, shower, etc. and I'm still on a bum ankle.) because everyone in her family had a labor of no more than a couple hours. I got to the hospital at 11, half expecting baby boy to already be there.
*side note: the lady who walked me to their room asked if it was my little sibling who was being born. "No... he's my cousin's little boy, but my cousin and I are very close." "Oh, I'm sorry. It's just, you're glowing. Usually the only people who I see glowing this much are the parents!!" She wasn't the first that had noticed how excited I was... apparently my face said it all... haha*
Anyway, he hadn't come yet, and when I walked in, Crissy was sitting up in bed, talking and laughing. I asked her if her contractions had started and she said yes, but they weren't bad at all. We watched Jerry Springer, then Steve Wilkos. (quality, right?)
They kept coming in to check on her because her contractions were already a minute apart at most, yet she wasn't in pain. Turns out, she's just a beast! She had a couple tough ones toward the end, but didn't get an epidural or anything, just a couple injections of Fentanyl. Eric and I made guesses as to the time little Austyn would make his appearance, his was 2:15 and mine was 2:45. They broke her water at about noon, and finally right after 5pm Crissy said very bluntly "I need to push. NOW." Sure enough, after being hustled out of the room, it wasn't long before the nurse came out and told myself and Eric's mom that we had a new baby in the family :)

It makes me SO PROUD to introduce you all to Mr. Austyn Lee. Weighing in at 7 lbs 2.5oz, and measuring 20 inches long :) Oh, and he has a full head of hair!! :) :)

At one point, my foot (the one in the huge boot) fell asleep so I went to walk a few laps. When I did, I saw members of my old boss' family. Turns out, she was there having her baby on the same day!! While my aunt and I were down at the nursery watching Eric give the baby his first bath, I got a text from Desiree's brother saying "He's here!!" They're about 40 minutes apart :) Her baby is SUPER cute, and a huge 9 lbs!! It was probably the best day of my life so far. I felt so honored to be a part of it. ALSO!!! I will be Austyn's nanny when Crissy has to go back to work in 6 weeks. :)
pardon all the smiley's... I've really been all smiles for the past 3 days!!

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

15 years.

15 years ago today, I was diagnosed with type 1 Diabetes. On March 9, 1997, my life changed forever. I didn't realize then what it meant, what I would have to face in my future... but can an 8 year old really ever comprehend something like that? Can anyone? Maybe someday I will make a post on how I feel about having Diabetes, all of that. But for now, I am exhausted - my cousin just became the father of Austyn Lee, and I've been with them for two days now :)

So, for now I will just post a few pictures of the week living with Diabetes and a Dexcom.

Sometimes it looks like this:


or this

but other days... it looks more like this:

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"i think i just broke my ankle..."

NOTE: I've been on my Dexcom CGM for almost two weeks now, and I'm going to tell you all about it eventually. I'll wait about a month to give myself a bit of time to get used to it, so I can give a better review.

Now onto the update:
I broke my ankle on Tuesday night. Well. Wednesday morning at 5:40 to be exact. I was getting out of my friend Clinton's car and I'm not sure if my foot was asleep or what, but I stepped and my ankle just POPPED. Loudly. So loudly, in fact, that Clint heard it from the other side of his car. I was in shock and just said "DID YOU HEAR THAT?!" He was like "yeah.. what was it?" "my ankle. pretty sure I just broke it." His face was one of shock and almost disbelief haha but then I could tell he was super worried which made me sad. I don't like for anyone to worry about me.
He keeps telling me it was his fault and that he feels guilty... I don't know how it could possibly be his fault... but that's off topic. ANYWAY. So I drove home, somehow walked into the house and crawled up my stairs. By the time I got up the stairs I was in so much pain I threw up. I was shaking and got SUPER cold. After tossing and turning for 3 hours and getting NO sleep, I went into my moms room and told her she'd have to take me in. After possibly the most frustrating situation at Emergicare ever, I found out my ankle is most definitely broken. They didn't cast it, just said don't put weight on it and wear a boot when you can. I go back tomorrow afternoon to check up on it. I'm praying they'll cast it for A LOT of reasons.
I broke my foot over the summer, in three places, and it healed wrong. I now have nerve damage in that foot and it's one of the first places my arthritis attacks when it flares. Pratially, that's my fault because I didn't even go get an x-ray until after I'd walked on it for 8 weeks and rebroken it who knows how many times. Either way, they didn't cast it and now I'll have to suffer the consequences the rest of my life. I'm TERRIFIED the ankle will be the same story.

I have to watch my temperature to make sure everything is normal and stays normal. I'm prone to blood infections, and they tend to attack weak points... like a broken bone.

I'm not sure why my bones are starting to break so easily. A doctor I used to see said it could be a condition caused by Diabetes, but she made it sound like it was more nerve damage than anything else... and my new (GOOD) Diabetes doctor says my nerves are in pretty good shape considering all I've been through. SOOOO who even knows.

Anyway, I'm cooped up on the couch, and I have a million ideas for blog posts, but the pain pills I am taking (no thanks to Emergicare. "we can give you ibuprofen 800" ) make me kindof spinny and unable to concentrate. If only they worked that well on my pain.

Feeling quite left out, Arthur (my rheumatoid arthritis) decided he'd like to flare up in my lower spine and my right hip and knee. The pain pills make my Gastroparesis angry as well, so I've really not been eating anything. And my bloodsugars are way out of whack because they like to do that when my pain and inflammation rises. Basically, it's a party over hurrrr.

The upsides? My cousin Kelsey lets me use her Hulu Plus account, and my friend Jamie lets me use her Netflix account. My couch isn't horribly uncomfortable so it's not completely miserable being stuck on the main floor of the house. And most of all, Clinton's account of the happenings Wednesday early morning:
She was crossing the road to get to the car and this GIANT dragon swooped down after her. Luckily I saw it coming and sprinted into the street and tackled her narrowly escaping the dragons reach. She broke it on the fall. Broken leg? Or eaten by dragon? Id say she's pretty lucky to be alive! Lol

:)

Well, the screen is spinning a bit, so I think I'll try to watch a show or a movie or something. If that doesn't work, I'll probably just put on some Sinatra pandora and close my eyes for a bit.

darling, wait it out.