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9: HTC One A9
The iPhone with the brains of an Android
Weight: 143g | Dimensions: 145.8 x 70.8 x 7.3 mm | OS: Android Marshmallow | Screen size: 5-inch | Resolution: 1080 x 1920 | CPU: Snapdragon 617 | RAM: 2GB/3GB | Storage: 16GB/32GB | Battery: 2150mAh | Rear camera: 13MP | Front camera: 4MP
HTC has taken some design cues from the iPhone for the One A9, but that doesn't make it any less of an Android phone. This comes with Android 6 Marshmallow software on board and we'd expect HTC to update it to Android N when it's possible.
There's a 5-inch full HD screen, which isn't as gorgeous as the screen on the HTC 10 but the price of the HTC One A9 has already dropped so it's going going to break the bank.
The camera is much improved upon previous HTC handsets, but the battery life on this phone isn't as great as some had hoped for.
If you're looking for the latest from HTC check out the HTC 10 that features later in this list, but if not this is always a great choice.
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On Tuesday, people in the Bay View neighborhood were confronted by the finiteness of their lives as a result of one of Chang's projects. A wall that reads "Before I die I want to..." and has little buckets of colored chalk so people can fill in the blanks was installed at the Sky High Skateboard Shop and Gallery, 2501 S. Howell Ave., and in cities across the U.S. on Tuesday. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Puddle Jumping: Feeling the Impact
Unfortunately I'm meeting more and more people that are directly affected by type 1 diabetes.
I'm not sorry that I know you or that I met you but I'm bummed about how we've met and the reasons we need each other. However! We do know each other and we do need each other and we are such a great team, all of us diabetes community types, so, good for us!
When we get together we like to talk about things that other people just don't understand. Like we are chronic illness elitists or something. Whether it's "what's your life support system?" or "how many carbs do you think this hamburger bun has?" we are guessing and learning together on a daily basis. There are loads of ways we can educate the people that are not us; with numbers and facts and examples and daily interactions. But the truth is there are things that we can't put words to. I think any parent or caretaker of a kid with a chronic condition would say the same thing: when we look into the eyeballs of someone living the same life we don't have to say a word. We want to cry and scream and hug and laugh and say bad words and pray all at the same time. We know what not to say and when to speak up.
I recently have met a few newly diagnosed families and I listen to their story and hate the next chapter for them. One thing I have thought and talked about ever since Bug was diagnosed almost 7 years ago, and something I have had a hard time explaining to people who don't speak chronic illness, is that after diagnosis you have to mourn that loss. The loss of the way everything used to be, because every inch of every second has now changed and you just have to hang on and go with it.
I've written before about the day Bug was diagnosed and how awful and scary that was, but it was the six months after that day that brought me to my knees.
I was truly in mourning. Everything that happened in that time period is in a foggy place in my brain and even now I can't remember it in full color or volume. It was lonely and terrifying and just altogether uncharted territory and I did not want to own one bit of it as my actual life.
I cried a lot. I cried because I was scared. I cried because I felt entitled to a different kind of existence. I cried because I was sad. I cried because I couldn't make Bug's baby food myself anymore because it was easier to count the carbohydrates in a pre-measured jar of green peas. I cried because everything from that point on had a big giant diabetes stain on it.
I mourned the loss of carefree and the loss of laid back. Bug has worn an insulin pump since we came home from the hospital with diabetes, and I remember after her bath, before I put her pump back on, I used to hold her and rock her extra long sometimes. I would rub her back from her diaper to her neck, over and over. It was the greatest feeling, her tiny back not invaded by a medical device. In those moments it was like it used to be. Then I would cry again, watching tears hit her back and roll past the tiny bruise she had from her pump hitting her back in her carseat over and over. I'm so grateful she was only 10 months old at the time, otherwise I would have seemed like a total loony toon with my crying and excessive back rubbing. I mourned the loss of her bare back and the way a onesie used to look without her big bulky pump underneath.
Some of it seems dumb but I'm so glad I let myself feel it all. I was unknowingly patient in my grief. My natural tendency is to want everything to be fixed and fine and comfortable as soon as possible, but in those six months, there was no hurry up and get better. It was heavy and real and would be affecting the rest of my life and the lives of my family members, every hour of every day. I was weak and afraid and feeling every bit afflicted. In my mourning and my grief and affliction, in my weakness God's power became stronger and my purpose made more clear.
I like to think about this whole situation like a rain puddle. We have had a lot of rain lately and my son goes into a deep depression if he can't be outside for at least 30 minutes every day. So, naturally we have been playing in the rain lately. A lot of puddle jumping and splashing, followed by so much laughter and joy, resulting in a positive nap time experience for the both of us. In all of the rain and his puddle joy I've noticed a few things. When a rain drop hits the puddle, the puddle gives way a bit to allow the drop to make an impact. After the impact, come the ripples and then that rain drop is forever part of that puddle. As the ripples fade away the puddle calms and is now a little bit bigger and more purposeful; better for the jumping of little feet. We need to be the puddles. We need to give way for the afflictions and feel their impacts, because then the ripples come and we can see how the Lord is made strong in our weaknesses and how he is making us new. We need to mourn and let ourselves feel loss so that we can move on and grow up and do the big things we were created to do.
If you are feeling the weight of a season of mourning, you are right to feel it. Know that after the ripples calm, there will be a bigger puddle and a higher purpose and there will be joy and jumping again.
"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Feeding and Fueling
Ok, so food!!
Disclaimer: This post is long and only going to be minimally interesting if you are trying to feed a human child, only made actually interesting if you have a human child with type 1 diabetes that you are trying to feed. Also I use the word squeezie a lot in this post, and am well aware (thanks to spell check) that this is not an actual word.
Lately I've been asked a lot of questions about food in relation to type 1 diabetes.
Can she eat this cupcake?
What does she eat for dinner?
Can she have soda?
Shouldn't she just have a no carb/high protein diet?
Does gluten free help?
These are all great questions!! Feeding a kid with type 1 diabetes looks different for everyone. For me it was unique because Bug was a baby, still eating baby food from a jar; this was pre-squeezy baby foods. I remember counting carbs in a jar of green bean baby food, I think it was probably 9 carbs or something. I also remember withholding milk from her at certain times, simply because it hurt my brain to think about counting the carbs in a sippy cup of milk that may or may not have actually made it all the way down the hatch.
And to answer those questions:
Yes she can eat the cupcake, I just need to see it and decide how much insulin to give for it.
She eats all the same things your kid eats for dinner.
She can't have soda, not because of diabetes but because she is my kid and I just haven't given it to her.
She can not eat a no carb diet because her pancreas doesn't do it's job anymore so her body can not compensate for the lack of carbohydrates the way yours does when you switch to a no carb diet. Your body sculpts muscles, her body would just quit all together.
Gluten free is still so new to me and I am learning more about it every day, so I don't know the answer to that question entirely. Stay tuned.
We love food at our house. My husband is a fabulous cook and I know how to read, so between the two of us he can make incredible things from what's in the fridge and I can follow instructions for equally fabulous recipes. All on her own, Bug has grown into a fabulous eater. (this has nothing to do with us, our other two people do not eat so fabulously!) She will try anything, so long as it's not "spicy" and she genuinely enjoys vegetables and healthy foods. She loves to cook, and as her parents we have decided she will be a famous chef and make super yummy healthy food and take great care of her adult diabetic self.
She inherited my sweet tooth and deep need for chocolate after almost every meal so she and I are working through that one together. All that to say, my husband and I lucked out in a way, with our healthy eater and early diagnosis. Had it been her sister we would be dealing with an aversion to almost all foods aside from cheese, vanilla ice cream, and a very specific brand of flour tortilla. Not to mention, had Bug been diagnosed at a later age, we would have developed other habits by then. We would have been dealing with a love of soda and skittles at every movie or snacks at random times or grazing throughout the day.
So today, hopefully I can provide some helpfulness in terms of eating and feeding and encouraging your type 1 diabetic at meal and snack times.
First of all the most important thing, and I have mentioned it countless other times, is the schedule! Keeping your kids on a somewhat predictable and structured schedule in relation to meals and snacks will help you and them and their blood sugars; ultimately resulting in fewer dips and spikes in blood sugars. Our summer structure obviously looks different than our school structure and both of those may look different from yours... find one that works for you and do your best to stick with it.
Some of you hate the word structure but if nothing else, do it for your future 99 year old type 1 diabetic who still has normal vision and all her toes... she will be so grateful you rose above your need for all things sporadic.
Next lets discuss general healthy habits. I do not even have soda in my house, except for the one 12 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper that I keep for my neighbor (there's a story there). Now, hear me when I say, I do not care if you give your kids soda or sprite or diet coke or whatever, truly zero judgement, I am only saying: "We don't drink soda and I'm fine with that." All that to say, at meal times we offer water, milk or lemonade, the end. I know that will change as they get older but as for now they think the "fizzy drinks" taste weird and I'll be the last to argue with them. Not to mention, if your child has a high blood sugar he needs more water anyway, to wash out the ketones; so really water is good and wonderful on all fronts.
Moving on to specific meals. I have a lot of friends asking what to feed their kids with type 1, and they feel stuck in the foods they feel safe feeding. I'm just going to do some lists. Oh how I love lists.
Now, we all know if you've made it to this point in the post, you are truly interested in how to feed your kid with diabetes so a list will be the most helpful for all of us.
Here are a few options for each meal and things we cycle through. We are carb counters so I'm a huge fan of anything with a label or a website. And I have special hugs and kisses saved for the people that post healthy recipes online and leave the nutrition information at the bottom. All the diabetes moms said "Amen".
I'm not posting recipes, just names of food items and a few helpful hints. And remember PORTION CONTROL is your friend and will help you if you are counting carbs so take the extra step and measure the cereal in the measuring cup, it will not make you late for school.
***EDIT! And also my new favorite thing for any meal or snack or sweet fix: Justin's Chocolate Hazelnut Butter. I can not say enough how much I love this stuff!!! On toast, waffles or just a spoon: so.yummy.****
*I tend to pick things that are quick, easy, and have fiber and protein in them to get Bug to her morning snack time without getting hungry... this does not always end up successful but I'm still aiming for it*
-2 Whole wheat toaster waffles (We like anything in the Van's Frozen breakfast item family!) with peanut butter or a tablespoon of agave syrup that I put in a little bowl for her to dip.
-2 Microwaveable pancakes with same topping options (again: Van's. In your natural foods freezer section)
-1 cup of cereal and milk. Our favorite options as of now are all things Cheerios and she has recently discovered a love for Basic 4....? I am also scratching my head but I'm thinking the yogurt clusters drew her in. Plus, it has a lower carb count and a higher fiber and protein count which means it last longer
-Fruit is never a bad idea in the morning EXCEPT for bananas!! For some reason bananas are hard to cover and they always come back to bite us with a random high later on, so we reserve bananas for snacks.
-Immaculate canned biscuits (weekend food! there is no time for anything going into an oven on a school day)
-Immaculate canned cinnamon rolls (more weekend foods)
-And then all the high protein favorites: Eggs, bacon, and sausage
-Sandwiches of all sorts, get creative because you are mostly only counting the carbs in the bread. Be careful with any kind of cookie cutter sandwich situation; I have a hard time subtracting the carbs for the bits I've cut off with the cutter. I used to make her eat the extras that were cut off so it would be easier for my brain to count.
---Sandwiches options(a list within a list!):
-Peanut butter and jelly.... I buy the Polaner's high fiber, sugar free jelly. To date, the best sugar free jelly I have found.
-Rasin bread with cream cheese, you can add ham or turkey to these to keep 'em guessing
-All things meat and cheese, so many options here
-Bread options: Honestly I think any bread that your kid likes is fine. We sometimes use the Orowheat Sandwich Thins because a whole sandwich with those has the same amount of carbs as one slice of regular bread, but when we wear out on those we switch back to just regular sliced bread.
-Yogurt: I LOVE all things squeezie. Right now the ProBugs squeeze yogurt is our favorite. It's tons of yogurt, she likes the flavors and it's only 10 carbs!! I also like the tubes and the smoothies, although, no thank you to anything with a well known cartoon character on it. This usually means there is loads of sugar in it resulting in too many bad carbohydrates.
-cherry tomatoes (Bug loves these, I realize this is possibly an acquired taste)
-olives: they come in little individual lunch box cups...? (again, Bug loves these and they have virtually no carbs so I'm not complaining)
-carrot sticks
-apple slices
-apple sauce: again the SQUEEZIES! love them
-Babybel cheese: how fun to unwrap that every time?!
-Chips!: most kids love chips! We love the Veggie Stix and also to the Simply Cheetos. They are super yummy and fulfill the need for salty crunch and they are only 1/2 a carb per chip!.... so math wiz moment: that is 5 carbs for 10 chips.
-Lunchables!! YES I do send these once in a blue moon and you can take your judgement elsewhere; the carbs are listed on the back--easey.peasey.
-Lunch dessert!! I usually put two Hershey Kisses in her lunch which is roughly 7 carbohydrates.
*funny side note: she recently told me she lets the kids at lunch count her carbs and add them up to see who get's closest to the total. The winner gets one of her Kisses.
**another side note: I put an itemized list in her lunch box with the food item and it's amount of carbs should she eat all of it and a total at the bottom. That way if she doesn't eat ALL her carrots the school nurses can account for that.
*Dinner is getting tricky as she gets older because she is wanting to eat more of what my husband and I are eating which is both great and also tough for counting carbs when the portion sizes are not quite laid out as well as they would be in say: a squeezie.
-Mac n Cheese: We love Amy's frozen Mac. 1/2 of that box is 20 carbs.
-Hot dogs... I like the "whatever the most natural Turkey dog" option there is. *People on soap boxes about hot dogs, need not apply here*
-Meatloaf! This is Bug's favorite dish and my husband's least favorite so we make it when he's working late or out of town. It's relatively low carb and goes great with green veggies.
-All things beef: roast, burger, stew over egg noodles
-Pork tenderloin
-Soups: from cans or there are a bunch of great soup recipes that are easy, yummy, and healthy
-Pizza: make your own, frozen or take out... love love love pizza and depending on the crust depth, carbohydrates are "google-able"
-Tacos: all kinds; fish, beef, breakfast, or chicken
***One of our favorite things!!!: and can be eaten with tacos or quesadillas are the Mission Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas. They are yummy and have a FAR better carb count than regular tortillas. Go and get this ASAP.
-Spaghetti and meatballs: There are a bunch of frozen meatballs, and some in the deli meat section of your grocery. There are also a lot of really yummy and easy recipes out there for meatballs depending on your level of commitment to touching raw meat.
I could go on and on and on about dinner options so I won't go completely there but I will say, try to get a good protein in every meal to keep a stable blood sugar and mood, and even if they aren't going to eat them, give that kid some veggies! My middle child will not eat any veggies accept for green peas (frozen not canned) and the tops of "broccoli trees", so we have those two things many times throughout the week.
*I have a special place in my heart for the snack because its the mini meal that gets me to the real thing that last longer and has more components, and that really makes me happy*
**also, for snacks we try to hover around 15-20 carbs, just enough to keep her blood sugar from dropping and not too much to have to cover with insulin, thanks to the constant basal rate she is getting from her pump (although, I think we are close to the point of needing to cover the snacks so if you are in that boat we will be joining your shortly I'm sure)**
-Popcorn: We buy the Skinny Pop Popcorn, it's 12 carbs per serving which is 3/4 cup
-Tate's Bake Shop Whole Wheat Dark Chocolate Cookies: you will eat all of these before your child discovers them, but they have great nutritional value and are so so yummy and crispy. Just trust me on this one
-All things already portioned; the kind where you buy the box and theres a serving size already sealed up and in the bag and carbs listed on the bag....
-bags of goldfish
-mini nilla wafers
-mini peanut butter crackers (grocery store brand: Kroger)
-mini oatmeal cookies (grocery store brand: Kroger)
-Six packs of peanut butter crackers (these have more carbs than I prefer but usually I give her 4 and then a string cheese or something)
-Kids Z Bars, made by Cliff Kids: There is a regular and a protein bar version. Bug says both are good, so I prefer the protein version. Great for snack before sports practices or games. Higher carb content than I prefer for a regular snack so I typically will give insulin for half the amount of total carbs in the bar.
-Squeezie apple sauce
-Cliff Kids Fruit Rope
-Annies organic fruit snacks
-Chocolate covered almonds
Snacks to have when they are hungry AND have a high blood sugar:
-Any deli meats
-Protein pack: Oscar Mayer makes these protein packs with cheese cubes, meat cubes and nuts. Bug loves these! She takes these to school for snack with a fruit rope or fruit snack
-Any raw veggie with any (small amount of) salad dressing
-Hard boiled egg
Now on to the sweets!! I love love love sweets and chocolate and everything that they involve so I was determined to not deprive Bug of any of it!!
-Cupcakes: usually I save cupcakes for VERY special occasions like birthday parties or christmas or mommy had a rough day type situations... on average a cupcake with icing is about 35 carbs
-Brownies: Brownies don't come up very often but when they do I totally guess, let's be honest. I would treat them like a cookie, depending on size. Basically depending on who made them, and what was used in the process, brownies can run either 5 carbs per or 35 carbs per. You probably now understand why I try to avoid brownies
-Ice cream: I try to get the pre-portioned ice cream in the party cups. Keeps us from over serving and gives a good guideline for how much she should have. We usually put sugar free chocolate sauce on top of a vanilla party cup.
-Donuts. I.love.donuts. so much. Donuts are so so tricky though. The glazed donuts (on paper) have about 20 carbs, BUT most of those carbs are from super refined sugars which means those carbs are almost empty. They go in and out of the body before the insulin you gave to cover them has a chance to work. So, by the time the insulin is at it's peak in effectiveness, the sugar from the donut is out of the system, resulting in a crash in blood sugar. Take home point: if you're going to eat a glazed donut, cover half of it and then check blood sugar an hour later. If you eat a cake donut or more complex donut situation filled with creme or something, I suggest consulting a website like Krispy Kreme to find a similar donut, and look up the nutritional information they have there. Donuts are total trial and error for me... if you haven't guessed already we do not eat donuts but maybe three times a year.
-Any frozen yogurt or popsicle spot. These are my after school snack spots of choice. They usually have fresh ingredients and good options for portion control.
The Big No-nos... but we still definitely still try to eat them because, childhood!:
-Cotton Candy
-Snow Cones
-Any movie candies (although I do try to portion these out because they are all so yummy... and things like M&Ms and Skittles are awesome for low blood sugars)
-Anything in the Pixie Stix, Pez, or other novelty solid sugar headache inducing family.
-Lemonade: We use Crystal Light; usually we use the squeeze bottle that lets you put a few drops into a glass of water, but the powder that makes a whole pitcher is great too, we just usually don't have room in the fridge
-Capri Sun: I love the Roarin Waters because they have half the carbs as the regular
Are you still there! Ha!
What do your kids love to eat that is (mostly) healthy and keeps them going through the day? I always love input and helpfulness from other mamas so feel free to share your hints and tricks, I know there is still so much to learn!!
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Back to Basics.
I took a break from the blog to be human and procrastinate and also to work on a lil something (details later) but NOW! Now we are back and up and running. From now on, this blog will be more diabetes focused; I'm learning there is a bigger need in our type 1 community.
Whether I like it or not there are more and more of us every day. I've met, texted, emailed, and talked with a lot of newly diagnosed families lately. I hate that we are connected by the diabetes monster but we are, so: nice to meet you and I'm glad we're friends!
Your friends and family members have sent me your information, phone numbers, email addresses, etc and I haven't gotten a chance to get into contact with a lot of you so I'm starting to write here again in hopes that we can connect better.
Something I like to tell most parents of kids newly diagnosed with type 1 is that other people really just don't get it. Even your closest of close of your friends, and a lot of times even your family members, will never be able to fully be on your level. Not because of any fault of theirs, but because they don't eat, sleep, breathe, and bleed with you and your kids every day. That is 100% normal and fine and you need to know that so you don't go getting your feelings hurt when your best friend forgets that your kid can't eat a graham cracker at 1:30 in the afternoon because it will throw off your day. So, just decide now that you are going to be an adult and give grace and all that good stuff.
For me, I would say our school nurse, my parents and my in-laws and my fellow type one parents are the closest to myself and my husband in the department of "getting it". My husband has a younger brother who was diagnosed at 17 so he's mostly on our same wavelength, but he hasn't experienced diabetes as a child or as a parent (hopefully he never will!) so even he can't TOTALLY relate.
I always forget what a lonely place chronic conditions can be until I talk to an outsider and they ask questions and are shocked by the answers:
-Do you have to check her blood sugar EVERY day?
-So she just eats gluten free or something right?
-When will she grow out of it?
-How many times a month do you give her insulin?
-And so on and so on and fill in the blank with whatever seemingly ridiculous things people have said to you...
It's almost like I think that since I am immersed and drowning in diabetes education, that everyone else will be as well. We can't fault anyone for asking questions. If anything, I think the fact that people ask questions at all should tell us that they care and are somewhat interested in what's going on in our lives. Also, lets be clear: I tell them! I tell them more than they probably want to know, but the question deserves a thorough answer and its almost therapeutic to spill your guts about what all goes on in your house between the hours of 6:30 and 7:30 am.
I used to be the asker. I used to be clueless about diabetes! I've written about it before; when I first met my brother-in-law I gave him a hard time for wearing a pager at the pool... pager turned out to be his insulin pump and I felt like a big dummy. He of course was gracious about it and laughed and didn't call me an idiot; at least not to my face. All that to say, no one else will ever understand your day to day, until they have lived it.
I get so many questions from newly diagnosed families about our daily schedule, how we operate, how we travel, what a school day looks like, and what we eat; so for today it's all about the schedule.
I am a schedule person. I like to have times and places for all things and I prefer to be early for most occasions. My schedule love evolved from my struggles in school. Once I learned that I function best when I can predict and plan on when things are going to happen, I was able to actually study and do well in school. Unfortunately, I didn't figure that out until I was a senior in college, but if nothing else, it prepared me to be a somewhat fully functioning adult when I graduated.
When diabetes came to live at our house, my love for order really helped us out. All eating "moments" happened at the same time every day; as did play and sleep. There is no grazing or random snacking going on. Because we were on such a strict schedule going into type 1, I was able to predict Bug's highs and lows. Knowing what to feed her and at what times quickly became second nature. She was 9 months old at diagnosis and to this day (she is now 7) we still follow the same schedule for the most part. Aside from naps and what she is eating, not much has changed.
So for those of you struggling with how to plan the day; here is how our day looks:
Our blood sugar goals are for her to be between 80--175. Below 80 is low, and above 175 usually gets a correction. Both can be evaluated on their own depending on circumstances. (if she is 80 and about to eat a big meal: no rescue (juice), and if she's 175 and about to go play outside and had cheese and a handful of nuts for snack then I don't correct.... this is where the "guessing game" comes into play; more on that on a later date)
*these are school days, weekends are not terribly different except that breakfast happens later
6:45am-- Check blood sugar. Breakfast. Around 25-30 carbs, try to get protein in there to keep her full all the way to morning snack
**** she usually needs to check some time around 9/9:30 because she is starting to get hungry and is afraid she is low. Most times she is fine and just feeling hungry... this has been a big struggle for us since she started school but has gotten better every year****
10:00am-- Check blood sugar. Snack. Around 15-20 carbs. Give insulin only if she is running high and needs a "correction". Give juice or "rescue carb" if she is low.
12:00pm-- Check blood sugar. Lunch. Around 45-50 carbs. Give insulin to cover what she had for lunch and add a "correction" if her sugar was high going into lunch.
3:30pm-- Check blood sugar. Snack. Same protocol as morning snack. (I go a tad heavier on afternoon snack if we are going to soccer practice or dance that day and she had a low or normal blood sugar)
6:00pm-- Check blood sugar. Dinner. Same protocol as lunch. SOMETIMES there is dessert... Actually, let's be honest, this is my child.... MOST TIMES there is dessert: we try to hover around 15-20 carbs for dessert.
10:00pm-- Check blood sugar. Correct if high. Rescue if low.
2:00am-- Check blood sugar. Correct if high. Rescue if low.
***some times we check her later if we have stayed up later, so if she has a good sugar at 11:30 or so, I skip the 2am. Inevitably I wake up the mornings after skipping the 2am check in a panic that she won't wake up... so it's usually a bitter sweet decision***
Bug wears a pump and we change the pump site every three or four days which is another drama in itself.. separate post entirely. We do not have a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) yet because I hate change and can't bear the thought of adding something new and having two different sites on her tiny body. I know they are wonderful and game changing so I'm working through it.
That's pretty much it. Your schedule probably looks a bit different which of course is great. I think my biggest motto (aside from "your look is 99.9% confidence") is that you need to find what works for you and your family and run with it.
Don't expect anyone else to completely understand what's going on behind closed doors and definitely don't apologize for being preoccupied with your child's health care. There is a whole part of our brain that we used to use for things like our friends' birthdays and random acts of kindness... that part of our brain is now full of carb counting and constant worry. We can always send the gifts late and there is plenty of time when our kids are grown for us to be randomly kind to people; dont' sweat it.
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Keeping Our Cool.... Sort Of.
It has been 5 months since my last post. I will try to not go into too much detail about what's been going on since then... not because it's not hilariously entertaining, but because it would take forever and a half to type it out and I have three humans to raise!
Just know that since that last blog post, I went for a walk with a friend at 33 weeks and after that, the baby dropped so low I swear he was about to reach out and tie my shoes for me. (which would have been equal parts terrifying and helpful at that point) I had contractions every time someone asked me when my house was going to be finished, and would we be in before the baby came. Not to mention, getting out of a chair, brushing my teeth, opening the fridge... I quit keeping track of them somewhere around 35 weeks.
Then, after 3 years of our somewhat urban nomadic lifestyle, we moved into our finished house over the course of a week, finally sleeping there on a Friday night. I was 37 weeks pregnant and was in early labor the entire week we were moving. That Sunday morning at 7:21am, the Boy was born.
He was perfect and huge and quickly became the newest subject of the sisterly game we like to call "But it's MYYYY TUUURRRRN!!!" Holding him, bringing me a burp cloth, getting his passy, unwrapping his swaddle; you name it they fought over it. All out of love though, I'm sure.
Summer has been a wonderful blur. It started with a family road trip when the girls were flower girls in a family wedding; Boy was 3 weeks old. After that, everything went into high gear. Settling in, unpacking boxes, hanging pictures, going to the pool and the movie theater, a road trip to Texas, working out, and then preparing for another school year. All thanks in large part to the help of our saint of a baby sitter that came to play and feed and spoil the girls. No doubt I would still be 40 lbs overweight, sleep deprived, and just plain mean without that girl. (you read that correctly, I did it big this time.... "Forty Pounds" Big..... future post "Out of the Fog and into my workout clothes")
Last week Bug started First grade with two loose teeth and four already gone. Peanut is approaching the age of 4; hilarious and in a constant state of "let's pretend". And Boy has moved into his, newly finished, nursery. He is sleeping through the night and no longer needing a swaddle. He argues with me the least, so naturally at this point I like him more than the other two. I will eat those words in about 5 months when he starts to make me crazy with a "is he going to die if he climbs on that?" thought pattern.
My husband and I managed to pack in (almost) every marital stressor into a 15 month period: Living with In-laws, pregnancy, moving, financial discussions, starting a new job, having a new baby, and traveling with children. All along the way our sense of humor and our prayer life keeping us sane.
There are so many great stories between all those lines.... from the stress and pain of moving when you are 37 weeks pregnant, to the 10 minute time span of my life when I both met the OB on call, and then interrupted his introduction to tell him I was pushing and he better be ready. The ups and downs of married life through it all. And now back to school. Back to routine. Back to life.
I have such a hard time with change, it was only a blessing to have too many changes at one time to process each on it's own. I blinked a few times, swiped the credit card a few too many, and cried quite a bit and finally I'm waking up to see my life and my purpose and my floor that needs sweeping.
After all of that: My husband and I are still married. We still genuinely like each other. Our children have not (managed to) run away or kill each other (yet). Everyone is fed and goes to bed "on time", and they seem to still genuinely like us as well.
We have made it to the end of an era and we are all better for it. There have been hard times and hiccups, and many opportunities to ask for forgiveness. As we practice thankfulness, the path is cleared for us to see the blissful moments through our earthly first world problems, and we were able to count them as blessings in stead of stressors.
As the next phase of our life presses on past it's beginning, I have looked to 2 Peter as my August 2014 pep talk:
The whole book is great, but just for starters:
(3-8) "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Bringing Home Chocolate Milk and a Diagnosis...Again.
We have been in the trenches as of late.
My brain is already fogged with pregnancy, home building, and being uncharacteristically unorganized in ALMOST every area of my life.
On top of all of that, there are the dealings and stresses that come with having two small children who require food, clothes, baths, attention, and frequent rides to various activities and appointments. Not to mention, breaking up fights, picking out movies, changing dress up clothes, playing "Hungry Hippo" referee, and trying to make sense of the random tear-filled, complete and utter meltdown; happening in public, in private, or (my personal favorite) in front family members whom we currently "room with".
To say that I expect a high blood pressure reading at each pre-natal check up is an extreme understatement. (my BP is fine, by the way.... as of yesterday)
If you know me, at all, you know I am a bit of a germ-a-phobe. Which at this point in time, I would like to say is a misnomer.... I like to think of myself as having more of an appreciation for germs than a fear. I get them. I know how mean, strong, lasting, and scary they can be. I appreciate how awful they can be. My germ awareness came about after a few years teaching small children, followed by my baby being diagnosed with a condition that compromises her immune system.
After her diagnosis at 9 months and our 6 night hospital stay, we left with a lot of information, books, gear, toys and clothing from the gift shop, and with one bit of information that stood out to me like it was surrounded by a flaming hoop, in neon letters, with fireworks and glitter and a soundtrack:
"You should be fine unless she gets strep throat or the stomach virus... those two could send you to the ER pretty quickly."
Enter: my hand washing, Clorox wiping, and Lysol spraying regimen.
Five years later, we have survived multiple bouts with the stomach virus, among many other illnesses so, please don't allow yourself to think my efforts have kept us illness free thus far. Although, I think it has kept us from getting sick often; even with a weak immune system and a little sister that HAS TO touch everything... every.thing.
This Winter has been nasty for everyone, I know. The snow, the ice, the germs, the doctor visits... gross gross and more gross! (My husband always says I'm reptilian, and I've never felt more so than Winter 2014.) As expected the dreaded stomach virus started it's tour around Bug's school about a month ago. I was on *high alert*... level Red, or whatever the worst color is for a terror attack alert. We had our armor in full effect. We did probiotics, Lysol the backpacks, wash hands, wash clothes and coats VERY often.... ALL the crazy person things you are thinking of, I did them and found comfort and pride there in my wintertime crazy person place.
*Diabetes Education Moment: When people with type one get a virus it makes their blood sugar go up. They still need insulin to combat the high blood sugar, but with strep and GI issues they are usually unable to eat so it gets tricky when deciding to give insulin.... worrying that giving insulin to correct a high blood sugar will give her a low that you won't be able to fix because she can't keep down the juice or the sugar to bring her back to normal. When the blood sugar is high, her body makes something called ketones:
(from webmd)
Ketones are substances that are made when the body breaks down fat for energy. Normally, your body gets the energy it needs from carbohydrate in your diet. But stored fat is broken down and ketones are made if your diet does not contain enough carbohydrate to supply the body with sugar (glucose) for energy or if your body can't use blood sugar (glucose) properly.
Ketones leave your body through urine, and to make urine you require hydration. If you are dehydrated from a virus and your body doesn't make any urine, the ketones just camp out and make ACID in your body. (does that sound as scary to anyone else as it does me?!) If you can't get rid of the ketones and you can't rehydrate, your blood becomes very acidic and starts to break down the fatty acids, and your body begins to break down.... everything in your body hurts, your heart rate elevated, your breathing is labored, you start to vomit and you have now gone into a complication called Diabetic Ketoacidosis: DKA.
DKA untreated results in death.
DKA untreated results in death.
This concludes our Diabetes Education Moment.*
There will be a time in your life when all at once, a great fear is realized and materialized too quickly for you to blink and understand. And when you do finally blink; it's a slow blink. When your eyes are closed, it's gone; the fear, the sadness. And then your eyes open to a your life in front of you. And you see it differently; the awful and sad, scary, great realized fear. For me, this is a reminder of the promise of Heaven and the end of all the heaviness and the grey that you want to ignore and forget with every fiber of your selfish being. Breathing DEEPLY with something along the lines of "I didn't want this cup Lord..." or maybe if you're me: "this is awful and I hate it and it's really just not fair".
There will be a time in your life when all at once, a great fear is realized and materialized too quickly for you to blink and understand. And when you do finally blink; it's a slow blink. When your eyes are closed, it's gone; the fear, the sadness. And then your eyes open to a your life in front of you. And you see it differently; the awful and sad, scary, great realized fear. For me, this is a reminder of the promise of Heaven and the end of all the heaviness and the grey that you want to ignore and forget with every fiber of your selfish being. Breathing DEEPLY with something along the lines of "I didn't want this cup Lord..." or maybe if you're me: "this is awful and I hate it and it's really just not fair".
On Sunday, Bug woke up with a stomach virus. One I had been awaiting due to the amount of cases going around her Kindergarten class. All the other moms were saying "It's not a big deal, she got sick one or two times and then it was over." So I was ready. And true to trend: she got sick two times and then was fine! Her blood sugars were not crazy high, her mood was great, she seemed fine and by lunch time she wanted to go for a walk. I left her in front of a movie and went downstairs to work on the laundry and attend to the other human I raise, whom I had sequestered to another TV watching situation, in hopes of keeping the virus in one location/human.
When I got back to the patient 30 minutes later, things had turned drastically. Her face was grey, she looked listless and was asleep. I checked her blood sugar and it had jumped up almost 100 points in an hour. I gave her some insulin via her pump and watched and prayed and waited.
Over the next 12 hours she got sick every 15-30 minutes as her blood sugar climbed quickly; not responding to the insulin corrections we were giving every 2 hours.
I called the Endocrinologist on call to make sure we were doing everything right. I was so confused! How could this quick "not a big deal" virus have turned into THIS?! He said we were doing everything right but if her blood sugar continued to not respond to insulin, we would need to go to the ER.
Doesn't that sound so drastic?! Of course I brushed it off (slightly) and decided she needed a shower and we'd be fixed! The Emergency Room seems so serious and final! The ER is where you go when you aren't breathing, or you break a limb, or your bleeding so badly they have to cut your clothes off to get to the wound to hold your body together.... too much TV watching on my part???
3:30 AM rolled around and Bug woke to get sick and I checked her blood sugar, getting a 595 reading. (normal blood sugar is 180) I woke my husband to look at her. She looked so skinny and her skin all over her body as a weird grey color. Her nail beds were blue and purple and there were circles under her eyes that were a dark grey/navy color. Her blue eyes were more blue than I've ever seen them; (another side effect of a high or low blood sugar in her specific case.) She was completely out of it and making no sense... babbling about random things and asking for warm milk. Her breathing was labored and quick.
We packed a bag and carried her to the car, too weak to walk.
By 6:30 AM we were settled in our room in the ICU and I finally felt relief in a strange way.
I can't fix it. But all these lovely smiling people in matching clothes seem to be extremely confident and have it all under control. I sat at the edge of her bed, remembering how tiny she was when we were there the first time 5 years before.
She laid still, almost lifeless, with her eyes closed while they poked and prodded and asked her what day it was and what her name was. She was completely emotionless but managed to open her eyes long enough to ask for chocolate milk multiple times and "is it almost time to go home?"
A full day of worry, number and level quoting, advice and questions, doctors and nurses, visits from friends and so very much hand washing. I laid down to sleep that night on the foam-cushion-bed provided, feeling the same emotion I felt 5 years ago, in that same spot.... total and complete defeat and exhaustion. I did everything right! How did we get to this point?! All at the same time, grateful to be safe and no longer in charge of keeping her alive. I watched the nurses come in every hour to take labs and check blood sugars while she slept, amidst the beeps and honks and constant noises of the ICU.
If you have ever reached the point of total defeat, it's hard. It's hard to admit you are not enough. It really really stinks to know and feel inadequacy on an (almost) daily basis. But as soon as you do; as soon as you throw your hands up and say "TAKE IT, LORD, BECAUSE I CAN'T", as soon as you stop trying to do it all, or be enough, or make it work for you... as soon as you just flat out lose and submit to the mystery of the Will of God; that's when you win. You WIN. You close your eyes. You let go. You breathe again. Your heart remembers to beat. You find rest in your loss and in knowing Someone else, Someone greater controls your days and nights, and will take on your great fears for you.
I finally gave in at 4:30am and went to sleep.
With the morning she woke with pink cheeks, asking for food and her daddy.
The rest of the day was full of more tests and pokes and blood draws, naps and jello, scrambled eggs, and yes, chocolate milk.
By the afternoon we were packing up to leave the ICU, and the hospital all together. Still weak but happy to leave, she asked to get her nails painted on the way home. Her daddy, of course, obliged. We arrived back at her grandparents' house with red sparkly nails, flowers, balloons, and big hugs.
We got home and I jumped back into laundry and cleaning up all the things we brought home from the hospital; for fear that if I stopped to think, it would all come tumbling down and I would melt. I tried to take it all back again. The control, the order, the need for a normal.
My husband could sense I was on the edge, gave me a huge hug and I finally cried. I couldn't breathe or talk or stand and could only get out the words "that was awful".
That is the only way I can describe it. Watching your child's body be taken over by a condition you thought you knew and could control. It was almost like being diagnosed all over again. To re-feel the fear and uncertainty. To remember it all again. Remembering how serious it is. Remembering how much I hate it. Remembering that she will be living with it forever. Remembering I can't fix it or take it on my own.
It WAS awful. But it's over now. I hate that it happened and that she has a "chronic illness" but I'm thankful in the midst of it ALL.
Still weary of germs and a do-over, and conscious of my defeat and my limits; I am grateful for the reminder of Heaven, thankful for the opportunity to see a light in a dark place, and in awe of how the Lord shines through those bright blue eyes.
He cares. He loves. He takes it all because I can't.
Not that for one second I deserve it; but challenge accepted.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Building a Life and Living Through It
Aside from sitting next to my husband on the couch and drinking red wine, or listening to my kids laugh together, writing is my favorite. It makes me happy and makes me feel smart, so why would I go three months without a blip?!
We have had a BIT going on lately. All of the bits put together would make a hilarious sit-com and are fabulous fodder for blog writing but alas, I'm going to jam it into one post.
After a year of looking for the perfect house to remodel, we decided to start from scratch. Like tear it down, scratch the dirt, wood and nails.... "build a whole house for real people to live in" type scratch.
It's a great story, really.
My husband's best friend since the 6th grade... (like if he had to move to a desert island and take one human with him, he would chose to take this man and then write me letters in a bottle, instead of be romantic and take me with him and teach me to build a fire and clean my own fish.) So this friend and his wife (whom I also love dearly) were adding a second story to their house. (*you can check out that story here!) Their neighbor, who also happened to be their builder, had bought the "tear down" across the street and planned to build a house there once he found the right client.
Enter our little family in need of something amazing to fall into our laps.
So now we are building the "perfect for us" little house across the street from some of our nearest and dearest, on a busy little block with a lot of happy people under the age of 8, and their parents who like to stand in the front yard with a glass of wine after dinner and watch the kids play.
See: sit-com worthy.
Our house is now a house with walls and windows and a chimney and a garage and we don't deserve one inch of it. A few (or many) months left to go, but when we get there and get to stay, there will be happy happy tears.
Whilst we are building our house we are doing our absolute BEST to wear out our welcome at my in-laws house. Again. (We lived here for a few months almost two years ago before moving away for my husband's fellowship; I'm sure there's a blog post about that somewhere... two Aprils ago) We are more than comfortable here and I have told many people that the good/great/amazing things about living here FAR outweigh the frustrations of living in boxes and in my husband's high school bedroom. Although, this is where the sit-com really kicks in.
I go to sleep and wake up every morning to the shrine that is my brother-in-law's news paper clippings from his amazing basketball career; beautifully framed and displayed as they should be. Then when I roll over to lay on my back, a stuffed bobcat stares at me and perches on a piece of drift wood; this is good motivation to get out of bed in the morning. Then as I get up, too many deer heads brush my shoulder on my way to the bathroom. Then the bathroom. My favorite: a stuffed squirrel, terrified, clinging to another piece of wood. Mounted on the wall next to the sink, it's huge glossy eyes watching you brush every tooth and apply makeup and dry your hair. It's strange, but a dead almost-rat keeps me in check after I've admired my eyeliner job and leopard heels in the mirror before heading out to a fancy dinner.
Other than that our living situation is only a luxury. The girls have their own bedrooms and bathrooms, we have a playroom which serves as our living room, complete with a huge TV, a small refrigerator and tons of space to store our BOXES! I call the upstairs of this house our apartment and remind myself daily; that were it an actual apartment it would be huge and extremely out of my price range!
Then there are two lovely people who live downstairs and split utilities with us, and happen to love and understand our children sometimes better than my husband and I do. Our personalities are different just enough to keep things running smoothly and between the four of us our children want for nothing and are completely, and in the best ways possible, spoiled!
In the middle of all of this I have felt so awful.
I have felt sick and exhausted and forgetful and angry at my skinny jeans. I have driven across town for specific sandwich because their tomatoes are better and I have seriously debated asking a certain bakery in Dallas, TX if they would air flight a cake to me with extra icing. I have fallen asleep in the car pool line and let my children log entirely too many hours watching TV.
I am four months pregnant.
Isn't it crazy how excited we can get about a new baby?! Of course we would. It's another human life! Another heartbeat that the Lord has entrusted to us. Another heartbeat that has me standing in front of the refrigerator every 30 minutes and sleeping as often as possible. Another heartbeat that has me crying during every commercial with puppies or babies or people sleeping soundly. And storming away from the mirror every time I get dressed because "this outfit used to fit me!"
I am now about 16 weeks along and finally coming out of the first trimester mess. With my first two I started feeling sick at 7 weeks and better at 12 and 14 weeks. This stinker has had me feeling gross and tired from week 4 to week 15. I have no clue as to the flavor of this baby and I won't be making any guesses; but we will find out in a few weeks.
The baby is due in May and I'm afraid to ask, but I really hope our house will be finished by April. I do have realistic expectations, and I realize that in the sit-com respect, I'm sure it would be great for ratings if we brought a baby back to the in-laws' house and had to move into our house with tiny, screechy, pink, baby in the mix.
But wouldn't it be nice if it all just went smoothly?!
In the mean time we will continue to build our life and do our best to live through it gracefully and humbly.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Walk It Out.
Getting back to the reason I started this blog. (And if you don't want to read all of this.... at least scroll down to the bottom to watch a little video that will take about 3:30 minutes of your day.)
My Bug has type 1 diabetes.
I started out hating diabetes and that feeling has only grown as we have gotten to know each other better. I still hate you, diabetes. There is nothing I can do to fix it, heal it, make it go away. But I can raise awareness and money and send it all in the right direction.
For our family, that right direction is JDRF; Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The money we raise for JDRF goes toward raising awareness of a need for a cure and to research. Those labs filled with scientists and doctors, spending all day thinking, planning, working, and losing sleep over the need for a cure for type 1.
They are close. But not close enough.
The little box that Bug wears strapped around her waist is most definitely not a cure. We stick her with a giant needle every 3 days so we can "plug her in". She lives every second of every day with a little clear tube hanging from her site and attached to her insulin pump. And we have to make her tiny fingers bleed every 3 hours so we can decide if she can have a snack, or lunch, or a glass of milk.
As a parent you go to every length to protect your kids from dirt and germs and mean kids and bad dreams and Spongebob Squarepants. I can't protect her from this or make this go away, or fix it, or take it for her. I can't even reason with it or blame it on something.
There is no cure for type 1 diabetes.... at least for today, there is no cure.
Help us make this mess go away. Join us in spirit or in person.
To register or donate: walk.jdrf.org
JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes
Dickey Stephens Park
North Little Rock, AR
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Independence Day coincides this week with remembrances of the pivotal Civil War battle 150 years ago at Gettysburg. So, here are smartphone applications for studying that battlefield - in person or virtually - and for grilling up a revolutionary red, white, and blue barbecue.
Gettysburg Battle App is one of several Neotreks apps for Android and Apple devices that commemorate Civil War conflicts. Others cover the Battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg, for example.
The Gettysburg app holds a series of maps and narratives for taking walking tours that explain each day of the battle. Photos, audio clips, and videos accompany the step-by-step guides. And your GPS service can keep you situated on the 6,000-acre national military park.


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Hunter given release
Free-agent signings crowd out defender
Green Bay - Defensive end Jason Hunter, who three years ago made the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent, has lost his position on the team to another undrafted free agent.
The Packers needed a roster spot to make room for four tryout players they deemed worthy of signing after their rookie orientation camp last weekend, so Hunter was released Monday.
Signing deals with the club were: 6-foot-1, 188-pound cornerback Trevor Ford; 6-5, 300-pound offensive tackle Dane Randolph; 6-3, 295-pound defensive lineman Dean Muhtadi; and 6-4, 232-pound punter Adam Graessle. Before the camp, the Packers had 77 signed players on their roster, so they needed to cut one in order to sign the four newcomers.
It was questionable whether Hunter was going to be able to make the transition from 4-3 defensive end to 3-4 outside linebacker given his build, but the Packers thought enough of him to make a necessary $1.01 million tender offer in February to keep his rights.
However, after the Packers drafted Clay Matthews and Brad Jones and signed undrafted free agent Cyril Obiozor to play outside linebacker, Hunter's presence wasn't as crucial. In three seasons, he saw limited time at defensive end and was going to have to drop weight to play linebacker.
The 6-4, 271-pound Hunter was a core player on special teams his first two seasons, but after leading in tackles with 25 in 2007, he had just three last season and seemed to fall out of favor. He missed three games with a hamstring injury and was left inactive for a fourth.
The Packers apparently think they have more than enough special teams talent to make up for Hunter's loss with the addition of Matthews, Jones, fullback Quinn Johnson and veteran free-agent safety Anthony Smith. However, with the addition of Graessle, they are carrying three punters on the roster.
Jeremy Kapinos and Durant Brooks are the others. Only two are expected to go to training camp with the team.
The four who were signed Monday were part of a group of 21 undrafted players who were trying out for a couple of spots on the roster. Each of the four was thought to have signed a three-year contract for minimum-wage salaries and no signing bonuses.
Ford, who transferred from Florida State to Troy after the 2005 season, became a full-time starter last season and had 49 tackles, two forced fumbles and six pass break-ups. At his pro day, he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.45 seconds and posted a vertical jump of 37 inches.
Randolph played right tackle for the Maryland Terrapins, starting 20 of his last 26 games. During the rookie camp, the Packers played him at right tackle, although there's a chance he could also play guard later on.
Muhtadi, who also played at Maryland, is a big, strong hustle player whom the Packers want to play both end and tackle in the 3-4, although he took all of his snaps at tackle in camp. Muhtadi, who had a 3.52 grade-point average, is currently enrolled in business school on an academic scholarship from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Graessle finished up at Pittsburgh after the 2006 season but was out of football and is still considered a rookie. In college he had a gross average of 42.6 yards and a net of 36.8. He also kicked off and 80 of his 249 kicks resulted in touchbacks.
Greg A. Bedard of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.


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TravelPod Member ReviewsSan Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Burlingame
Booked this with Marriott Rewards, and it is a good, solid Marriott. There was a function going on so place was pretty busy, but even so, checkin etc was fast, professional and courteous as should be at a Marriott. Good size rooms, but bed is a bit too hard. We had dinner at the lobby bar, nothing extremely special but good, solid food. The only ?-mark was the ring of melted cheese that "fenced" (yes, you read it right) the Caesar Salad. Sliders were really good though.
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Very comfortable bed. Reasonably sound proofed rooms. And great in house restaurant - they do a great steak and a mean breakfast. Service good too. The hotel is a little tired, but perfectly adequate for a stopover.
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Historical Traveler Reviews San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront Burlingame
Marriott is the way to go
Well, once again we struck gold with Marriott. We were in San Francisco for my wife's cousin's wedding and I didn't want to pay 150+ to stay in the city. The Burlingame Marriott was an affordable high class alternative. We stayed at a Marriott in Hawaii during the summer and were very pleased. This was no different. The staff was extremely professional, friendly and warm. They treated my wife and I like royalty. Our room was perfect with a great view of the bay, South San Fran and downtown. We were close to all the places we wanted to check out, especially Pizza My Heart in San Mateo! The bed was the best I have ever slept in. My wife refused to get up one morning because she wanted to sleep in it as much as possible. The parking, though 17 a night was ample and well guarded. The bathroom was nice, but the drain was broken and the toilet seat needed to be replaced. Also the phone books were a couple of years old which posed some difficulty for us. Other than those, I would highly recommend a stay here. If we stay in San Francisco again it will definitely be here.
Great Honeymoon
What a nice experience, we went on our honeymoon, and let the front desk know and she then gave us a room with ocean view and the VIP access to the 11th floor. The beds were so soft, and the rooms were roomy, the only problem was the bathroom. IT WAS SO SMALL. The halls are also very long. But we didnt park in their parking lot because of the price but the streets near by are just as safe. They have a nice spa and pool, if you like to excersize on vacation they have a nice health club too. I would most definitely go back here, very nice.
A Mostly Positive Experience
Room: space and d�cor
Pleasant d�cor. Nothing seemed out of date, just relaxing and pleasing. The room was large enough to be comfortable.
Room: Cleanliness
Bathroom was new and spotless. The carpet was acceptable. There were no major signs of wear and tear.
Room: Amenities (TV, Coffee, desk, view, couch, chair, etc)
Coffee maker was provided, along with single servings of coffee and tea. The desk had 2 nesting parts to it, and could be pulled out for greater space. The mattress was quite comfortable, very soft but supportive.
The chair was a little low, but did seem comfortable.
Our view was to the West, towards the 101 and Burlingame. I'm sure the Bay View is nicer, but the west side had more than just a parking lot to look at.
Hotel: Amenities (Restaurant, room service, workout facilities, pool, transportation)
There are 2 restaurants on property, however I did not eat at either of them, or order from room service. The gym looked up to date and plenty of good workout equipment was provided.
Parking is ample, but there is a fee. It cost us 16.00 to park from about 7pm to 1100am. Its possible that they do this to discourage people from getting free airport parking by posing as guests and taking the shuttle to SFO.
The pool is indoors is fairly small. The water was comfortably warm. There is also a large hot tub. It wasn't too crowded when we visited, around 10am on a Sunday morning.
Hotel: Location
Quite convenient to SFO. The hotel runs a shuttle to the airport. It's also quite convenient to 101, so access to the entire Bay Area is easy.
Hotel: Staff - courtesy, attitude and promptness
We had one problem with the staff, which was resolved. I wanted to bring my dog, as long as there was no pet fee. I called the morning of our check-in day to ask about the pet policy. I was told that a $75.00 fee would be charged, but would be refunded as long as there was no pet damage to the room. When I arrived, I was told that the fee was non-refundable. I explained that I had been given different information in the morning, but they insisted that I paid the fee. The next morning, my wife spoke with the manager. She refunded the money, but was not overly friendly about the transaction.
The doormen and maids seemed quite friendly.
We paid a Priceline rate of $40.00. I think it was an excellent value at $40.00, however the total charges were $56.00, due to the parking fee. I still feel that is an excellent price. I believe a hotel of this caliber is accurately valued at $80-$120.00 per night.
Greedy but Nice
Ive been staying at the Marriott SFO every year in August for the last 5 years. I must say that the staff has always been profesional for the most part. I did have a problem when my nephew (age 11) was lock out of his room last year and the desk manager refused to let him in unless his father with ID - (No compassion).
The bathrooms are small but adequate. Their ATM charges excess fees ($ 3.50) and you have to pay for parking($ 13.00 per day) and when there is a special event (wedding) you have to search for a parking space even though you are a paying guest. All in all I rate rate the hotel a 3.5.
Great Airport Hotel
The Marriott is a great hotel. The beds are better than most 4-star hotels in the bay area and the rates are much better. This hotel is perfect for someone who is passing through town or catching an early flight out of SFO. The airport shuttle is convenient and runs as early as 5:30 am.
Bathrooms like small boxes
I was disappointed in the size of the bathroom. It was SO small! Also, we asked for a Bay View and they were nice enough to give it to us BUT there was only one set of elevators and we couldn't have been further away! I had two 4 year olds and a lot of luggage so it was a bummer.
The pool was nice, but everyone was there and my 2 four year olds were frightened of the noise and crowds. I would never call this hotel a "4 * hotel"
Almost Heavenly Bed
Recently stayed at this property while others were at the Westin across the street, so here is a direct comparison. The Marriott is a far larger property, evident in the lobby and restaurant areas.
Self-parking can also be crowded if the hotel is busy. The Marriott's standard rooms are cozy - a bit narrower than the Westin. The bathrooms are also a bit aged - nothing special here.
Marriott is trying to upgrade their bedding to a standard similar to the Heavenly Bed, and while I appreciate the effort (and I will not miss the 3" foam beds) it's not quite the same.
I found the staff to be extremely friendly and courteous. This is one of the better Marriott's.
The property is served by a free airport shuttle that runds every 15 min or so to SFO. There is a BART station at SFO and also in Millbrae, less than a mile away.
Nice Place
The SFO Marriott is a classy place, especially if you can nail a weekend rate. Top-notch hotel with great views of the airport and great service.
Unfortunately that Saturday night there were huge wedding receptions in progress and the [not-free] parking lot was full. I had to cruise for awhile to find a spot, as I was not interested in parking across the street at another hotel.
The room price was right, but don't expect luxury.
We (1 adult, 2 children, 2 dbl-beds) stayed one August weekend night with a $76 Amex promotional rate. Our bayview room had a great view of the bay some 30 feet away, plus the sights of the SFO runways (impressive). Soundproofing is just fine. The room was small, and minimally appointed, as was the tiny bathroom. As was the case with our stay at the ($204 a night) Monterey Marriott, the hotel simply could not manage to satisfy a request for turndown services and fresh towels.
Check-in and check-out were fast and painless. Front-desk and bell-desk staff were friendly. CAUTION: prices at the informal caf� restaurant were staggeringly expensive.
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Fantastic Hotel. And for$80 (AAA rate) the best value I've had in years. The lobby was bright, clean, spacious and inviting. The staff was warm and welcoming and very helpful. The room was clean and had very good quality furnishings, especially the bed which somehow seemed to come very close to what the Westin and W are trying to achieve with their Heavenly Bed !!! The unobstructed view of the entire San Francisco Bay and East Bay area is totally unrivalled anywhere in town.....it's shocking. You can take a romantic walk along the water or just look at the bay from the lobby or the restaurant. I'd even consider making this hotel my home base for a long weekend trip to San Francisco.
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Georgetown City Council is debating the 2012-13 budget. The following are some highlights from the meeting:
City Administrator Chris Eldridge says the city has been going back and forth with the Department of Revenue because A-taxes collected at three hotels in the city have been sent to Georgetown County.
The money is supposed to stay in the city.
Its been going on for six months. Thats how bad the Department of Revenue is, Eldridge said.
Councilman Paige Sawyer said he would like to see money spent improving the Bobby Alford Center at East Bay Park. He also said more public restrooms are needed for the park.
Sawyer said he routinely hears rumors that townhouses will be built at East Bay Park.
The deed has restrictions on it stipulating it must remain a recreation park. Houses cannot be built on the property.
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Councilman Brendon Barber said most businesses see no benefit from the recent TV advertising promotions.
I have heartburn with $200,000, Barber said.
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Councilman Rudolph Bradley said any promotion that is done needs to promote the whole city, not just the Historic District.
The amount the city will allocate has not been decided.
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Posted on 06/28/2007 6:25:57 AM PDT by truthkeeper
Here we are again my friends, hopefully for the last debate thread on this particular monstrous legislation. Proceedings are supposed to begin at 9:30 a.m. EST, with the cloture vote being taken at 10:30 a.m.
On a personal note, you've all been wonderful in your passion, vigilance, and commitment to the principles on which our country was founded. If I have to be in a foxhole, I want to be in it with you guys.
Ried...disagreement is not hate.
solve the problem by closing the borders then.
let's see, check all 12 to 20 million in 24 hours? You are lying, Senator.
Then the pile of amendments will begin. Final vote would be several days away at the soonest.
Well, he got his 30 pieces of silver. It will be remembered.
Contemplate this....we both agree with Sheets on this issue...
It IS a vast explosion but the beauty of it is that the pulse is very large in radius & effect, and can be detonated far from the target area.
Everything else is science fiction.
NRO reporting that Sen. Smith will switch from NAY to YEA.
He has cancer, I think. And his personal appearance is irrelevant.
Generators of SIMPLICITY?
Based on this morning's news stories, Mich has gone underground as he is under tremendous pressure from Jorge Bush and Elanine Cho (his wife) on one hand and from the Republican caucus on the other. So, Mitch has taken the coward's route and has gone missing instead. Scumbag.
Vote to limit debate momentarily...right after Dingy Harry...
...how can they do this? they only got through 7 of the 24 amendments yesterday...I guess they can circumvent any Senate procedure or rule at any time...
watch live...
PREJUDICE AND HATE in emails and letters! If you are opposed to this, you are full of hate.
Yes on Cloture or yes on the bill? I'm so confused....
Oh here we go...Reid: "Talk radio has had a field day with this."
Major Garrett was just on with ED Hll on Fox and said by his count he thinks the bill is "Dead". This could explain the last ditch sob story effort.
Me too, but Bush is a liar and that's not our fault.
8 speeches on immigration "reform" from 2/2004 to this year. In the first 6 he vowed "no amnesty" and a 3 year work visa, renewable once, "then go home". He said that last part repeatedly.
Now he's supporting permanent residence for free, and a "path to citizenship."
The man lied to us, plain and simple and provable by his own speeches.
What a morning.
The immigration Nazi..."No Elaine Cho-mein for you"
Come ON Harry get on with it!!!
Reid: "Should we wait until we get a new congress?"
Hell yes!
WHERE ARE THEY....Primaries are so huge...This business of voting for the lesser of two evils in ruining our country little by little...SLOW TORTURE...The contempt of these TRAITORS is mind numbing..Just listen to this REID character talking down on TALK RADIO...That's next on there agenda to shut down our voice...
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Reid says we are full of hate and venom.
Now talking about his Legal immigrant relatives.
Did Reid just confess to stealing from illegals?
And that vote will take only a simple majority not 60 votes.
Well I've read that we're working on a sole EMP device, so my knowledge is outdated.
Hep me! Hep me!
Sad Sack Harry Reid getting calls of thanks for his hard work on this bill....from ILLEGALS! The Senate building needs to be fumigated. Too many cockroaches.
Reid: "Talk radio has had a field day."
UNFairness Doctrine..Next folks.
Thanks. I cannot take the extreme abuse of the president on these threads. Goodness knows I'm mad at him over this— but civility and reason has been ignored too much here by too many.
Thanks again.
Lieberman is a disaster on immigration. He gets an F. He will vote for cloture and the bill with a smile on his face.
"The rest of the state generally dislikes him, and I doubt he will ever come out of his cubbyhole to visit again."
Maybe Lynn Swann will step up next time for the primary...
I'd love to see these dumbasses get picked off one by one in the primaries.
You guys realize after this bill is defeated, the Dems are gonna come back with a vengence with their stupid fairness doctrine crap against our radio stations. Bring it on you wimps.
What a lot of rot...
Oh God, we've lost then, Hot Air is saying Cochran from Mississippi is changing to a "yes" also.
He doesn't look well.I just put it on.
Dingy is taling about a watch he got from his M-I-L who went to the Middle East. What stupidity! The barbarian Arabs come HERE to buy watches.
Mitch has become Mitchy Gaynor!!
Lowe's has every sign in their store in English and Spanish. I refuse to shop there, but I know there's many more stores just like them.
Now, he's talking about his childhood...it's all about him!
Yeah and they'll have an even bigger one if they try to bring up the fairness doctrine.
Vote Record will be updated.
Reid had a new theory..He promises to SHUT UP if senators vote for cloutre..
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Chose Tribeca Canvas for dinner mostly because of its location. What a delightful surprise! Each dish we had was unusual, delicious, and beautifully presented. Although it's not cheap, given the quality of the food and service, it's more than reasonable.
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I went to Tribeca Canvas with a group of girlfriends last saturday night. The place is amazing. I live in the neighborhood and have been waiting for a new fresh restaurant to open up. The bar scene is fun (so much so that I will be back for drinks and
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