Salvador de Vidas

Nothing new or exciting in my life. I have noticed how much changes when you hit the age I'm at. I have to schedule my own life, make my own decisions, relationships with people change, and other things in your life start to become more important than others. I have been pretty busy lately with running, I ran in a 5K race yesterday with my friend Chelsea. She is naturally a runner and I about died running with her, but we finished with snow falling around us. Today I got a new best friend today he or she I'm not sure with one yet is awesome they listen to me even when I'm wrong. They guard me and warn me of danger. They are always attached to me and never leave my side. I love my new friend its name is Salvador de Vidas which in English means life saver.If you haven't guessed yet i got a new pump and for the first time in like ever I gave it a name and I love it. This week I have another Youth Leadership Lincoln  meeting. Every meeting students are assigned presenters to introduce. I found out I get to introduce Chief of Police Tom Casady. He is a very nice person and I am happy to get to introduce him Tuesday.

Inspiration....

In my English class we are reading a book on Erik Weihenmayer he is a blind man who has climbed the 7 biggest peaks in the world. The title of his book is Touch The Top Of The World. It goes through his his life becoming blind, defiantly one of the best books I have ever read. In the book there is one part that really stood out to me and I thought I would share it. He is at this point preparing to climb Mt. Everest. " Not all of my time leading up to the climb was spent on the mountain; as part of their public education the AFB (American Foundation for the Blind and also one of his sponsors) asked me to do some TV interviews. One was a cheesy daytime talk show, on which I was showcased among a group of blind people deemed "amazing and inspirational". All the blind people were led onto the stage, canes tapping and dogs' tails wagging, and seated in a row in front of the crowd. I was featured first, and the host opened with,"A blind mountain climber. Isn't that incredible? Even I, who can see just fine, wouldn't think of climbing a mountain." this wasn't the first time I had heard the "Even I" statement. It was always meant as a compliment, but it never failed to annoy me. There might be a dozen other factors that prevent the host from excelling in the sport of mountain climbing. She might be 50 pounds overweight, wheezing with every breath, and might never have even set foot on a mountain, but in her mind, success or failure was automatically attributed to one factor: sight or no sight." I was thinking about this and the last sentence really stood out to me. People always tell me that they couldn't do something and they have a working pancreas they say. Working or not I don't think it determines weather you can do something or not. I find that this book relates a lot to living with diabetes. I highly recommend the book its awesome! Here is a video on him  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrSLb7hWSMc 

and life goes on...

One of the dress up days for national Lutheran schools week was multiples day and my friends decided to wear my walk shirts :) I love them! 

There is nothing newly exciting in my life. I have been sick (sinus infection) for over a week now and managed to sprain my ankle playing volleyball this weekend at our tournament. We have been adjusting a lot lately in the realm of diabetes things...basals, insulin to carb.....they are all getting an overhaul! I have already cut off 8 units of my basal for a day! woohooo I also feel a lot better fixing some of the lows I have been consistently having ....but there is still some fine tuning to do! I have little motivation to run lately with being sick and having volleyball practices and conditioning....I guess I am feeling the summer coming on and all i want to do is be lazy. I better get over this quickly! I got my first muscle massage...It felt sooooooo good! Sh split my calf muscle and went down to the flat muscle underneath and massaged it....let me tell you it hurt soooo bad because it was so tender but it felt so good!! This lady is a genius! She really knows her stuff. I guess that's it for now!