I’m having a hard time writing anything this week here in Canada. The temperature keeps going up and down and the situation at home is crazy! It’s been a rough one. My daughter has ADHD and she is in the middle of a re-evaluation. So this week, it’s no meds.

Now, what trouble can a 12 year old get in to anyways right? Wrong! I understand my job as a parent is to be patient, But what happens when your patience runs out? I am exhausted from trying to be patient. Everything inside of me holds in the screams and cries.

I can just hear the judging now. But, how can we learn from others when we don’t have anyone listen to us and help?

I was a young when I got pregnant. I was dating my first boyfriend at the time. I decided, yes, we would get married and have the baby because that would be the right thing to do. Little did I know he was abusive and liked to drink A LOT! I stuck it out for me and my daughter because I didn’t want to be done with my marriage at 23. But soon it was beyond safe and I had no choice, I had to leave. We snuck off in the middle of the night to a woman’s shelter.

Now, they are trying to rule out Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome because of the years I stayed. Life is not fair…

(I took this picture at the Calgary Zoo when I went this summer…his screaming really sums up what I am feeling.)

Part Two Later this week.

What do you wish you could do over and change in your life?

Hello, from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, flower smellers. Are you interested in a healthier life? We do have alternatives for disease prevention. We all have an opportunity to contribute to the sustainability of our planet in the process.

Red meat has previously been implicated as cancer producing. Researchers have now unraveled how consuming red meat and milk contributes to tumor growth. According to the results of a new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), when we eat red meat, we’re introducing Neu5Gc (N-glycolylneuraminic acid) into our bodies – a type of sugar molecule. We don’t naturally produce Neu5Gc. The body tries to fight the foreign substance by producing antibodies. The response causes inflammation, in turn promoting cancerous tumor growth…….

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Today, November 14, 2008 is World Diabetes Day, not only in Southern California where I live, but all over the whole world!!  Are you wearing the theme color blue?  If not, go change your shirt!  Then, when asked why you changed you can tell them that it is World Diabetes Day and that globally almost 1 million children are diagnosed with this potential fatal disease.

Diabetes impacts children and their families in a unique and stressful way. Their daily routine is interrupted with having to watch what they eat, check blood sugar levels, possible inject insulin, and figure out the balance of how much insulin with their activity level and foods.  Diabetes can interfere with the normal developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence, including educational and social success and the transition to adulthood which is fraught with all sorts of pressure it itself.

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HI all from Ohio!

Since Barack Obama was elected president just last week, everyone has been kind of excited to see what kind of dog he gets for his two daughters.  In his acceptance speech he promised his kids a new puppy when they moved into the White House.  Now, we’re all talking about what kind puppy it’s going to be.  Not the most lively or pertinant topic of conversation I know, but it does pass the time.  Plus, puppies are cute!

One of the problems that the Obamas are having in the selection of their new pet is that one of the kids, Malia, is allergic. They need a hypo-allergenic pooch.  

I was a little surprised to learn that there are hypo-allergenic dogs out there, like the poodle. (Which I’d already known of, but didn’t realize was good for people with allergies!)  With these new fangled designer pets, the days when a family can’t own a pet because of allergies are long gone!  Below is just a funny picture of Obama and McCain when they were campaigning!

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Hey, I live in the U.S. and on November 14th is World Diabetes Day.  I’m the theme for 2007-2008.  Really kids and teens are the theme.  I’m ten and my family is from Puerto Rico and I have diabetes.  My mother says that Hispanics, African-Americans and Asians get diabetes more.  I don’t know.  Sometimes, I get tired of it and wonder why me? 

Everyday, I feel like a pin cushion because I have to use a needle to get blood to test my sugar levels.  The tips of my fingers hurt as I have to do this all the time.  But, I know that if the number is too high that I need to give myself an insulin injection.  I’m not like the rest of the kids in my school, so I try not to let anyone know.  My teacher helps and suggested that I share about diabetes.  I’m not ready for that now.

In America, there are 23.6 million adults and children with diabetes.  Why do I have to be one of them?  I get tired of the needles and the numbers.  If my blood level is too low that is bad too and I have to eat something with sugar.  But, most of the time I can’t have any.  It is confusing.  Sometimes, teachers get angry at me because I am sleepy, rude or don’t understand like I usually do.  I forget too that it means that my sugar is low.

Diabetes really scares me because….

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