First Sponsor!

 Miles for the Cure is working!  I got my first sponsor on Sunday to find a cure for diabetes.  It works out to about ten cents per mile I will run by the time I hit the Marathon.  Huge shoutout to Joel and Deanna Dinverno.  You guys are awesome.

T Minus 18 days until I run in the Tough Mudder - Ohio.  I must be crazy.  Whoops.  I misspelled #motivated.  12 and a half grueling miles of rugged terrain.  25 military style obstacles.  I'm going to make it my bitch.

Put some miles in at the Jackson YMCA this morning.  I did a 5k in under 30 minutes for the first time since High School...13 years ago.  And it's only going to get better from here!

Lily's numbers have been pretty high lately.  This has both short and long term effects on her.  Long term high blood sugars result in neuropathy, loss of vision, limbs, the works.  Short term, she gets a little crazy and bratty when her sugar is high.  Both scare the hell out of me.  The good news is it was more under control today through strict portion control of her food.  Read the labels for serving sizes!

I read two articles about Type 1 Diabetics last week that brought me to tears. In the first one, a fellow parent of a T1D was writing about how her 12 year old daughter came home from school and just wanted to scream and scream "I HATE DIABETES" over and over in her room.  It hit home.  Hard.  95% of the time Lily is AWESOME about being diabetic.  She knows what she shouldn't eat and why, she does her own shots and pokes, and pretty much accepts her fate.  There have been more than a few times though that she has crawled in bed with me or Karly and cried herself to sleep about how much diabetes sucks.  I hate diabetes and everything about it.

The second article was about a teenager who died at a friend's house during a sleepover when she had flu like symptoms.  Great.  As if I wasn't worried enough about her going ANYWHERE without the VERY short list of people me and Karly trust to watch her. 

Jesus bore a cross for us, why can't I bear this cross for my little girl?!?