Mad Libs

For Thanksgiving, we traveled to Maryland. It was a lovely visit with family, including a speedboat ride on the Chesapeake, the annual football game, swimming at the hotel, and the biggest turkey I've ever seen!

On the trip down, Jenna brought Mad Libs... a family favorite of ours!! Always a funny story, especially with Jim and Jimmy's funny parts of speech choices (use your imagination - you know, a "Smelly Birthday", or a "Hairy Christmas"... the words that make the boys laugh!!!)

Jimmy and Jenna just love them, and in only first grade, Jimmy knows what even adverbs are!!! Jenna is such a good teacher and takes such good care of her brother!!!

Well, I'm sure I mentioned in the past that swimming makes the insulin pump site a bit less adhesive... well, it ripped off on Thursday morning after we arrived at the hotel and took a dip in the pool before we made our way to our Thanksgiving extravaganza... Jimmy was getting dressed when it came off... no doubt due to the chlorine...

So, he sucked it up and accepted a new site (after avoiding it at first by locking himself in the bathroom, bribing him with extra dessert, running down the hotel hallway, scratching his back, allowing him to pick his own site, and more...)

The site was done on Thursday at about noon... only to have the site rip out after Friday morning after another swim...

Poor kid. It's so awful to have to handle his diabetes, and it's NOTHING compared to what he goes through. I almost cried for him that he would have to have a new site within a 12 hour time period. He cried, screamed and locked himself in the bathroom (again) to avoid it.

As you can imagine, it wasn't pretty.

I had to talk Jimmy into it, and Jim had to talk me out of losing it from how upset I felt I made Jimmy feel. He was almost as upset as the time I hound him hiding in my closet when he didn't want a shot early on in his diabetes journey...

After the site, I held Jimmy, rocked him scratched his back, whispered good stuff to him, tried to make him smile (to no avail), etc... He acted as though it was the end of the world. My heart broke for him.

And then came Jenna to the rescue with Mad Libs!! Jimmy finally started to open up and let it out. Jenna asked for an adjective. Jimmy offered, "mad."

Jenna asked for a noun. Jimmy said, "frown."

Clearly he was expressing how upset he was with the site insertion. My poor little Jimmy.

I'm thankful that he let it out, but my heart continues to break for him.
I'm thankful for so many things, but I'm not a fan of diabetes.
I'm thankful.
Peace,
June