Today's WEGO Health NHBPM prompt:  Disclosure post. How did you decide what to share? What do/don’t you share?

Since I write about life with my 9 year-old daughter's Type I Diabetes, I don't post anything that I think might one day embarrass her.  I don't share private details about her-- I keep things kind of general.  I don't ever want her to look back at this blog and feel ashamed or feel like I used her personal stories for my own reasons. 

I also don't share photos of my children... here, or on my other blog.  First of all, my husband is in law enforcement, and we know for a fact that someone was trying to find us online a few years ago.  Secondly, I knew of someone who found out that her children's photos had been copied and used on an "adult" website.  No way I'm risking that!

  I'm posting daily in November in honor of Diabetes Awareness Month and the WEGO Health's National Health Blog Post Month. #NHBPM

"Magic Cure" Comments

Today I received a new comment on an old post over at my other blog with someone claiming that the Lord led them to a healing center where they were cured of diabetes, and all I need to do is have faith and get to that place. 

Now, don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the power of God... but comments like that, especially anonymous comments, really bother me.    I'm offended both as a d-caregiver and as a Christian, because I don't think things like this do much for promoting faith to those who are not believers.   In fact, if I wasn't a Christian, I'd probably chalk this up to just another one of those crazy "church people".  

I'd be willing to bet that the person was "cured" of Type II Diabetes, not Type I, which either means that they didn't read enough on my blog to notice what kind we're dealing with, or, they  have no idea what the differences in the two types are.

If I, or a family member, had truly been miraculously cured of something, you can bet my name would be on any comments or references I made to such healing.  My name and comments of praise would be all over the DOC and anywhere else I thought I could reach people.  The fact that this comment is anonymous seems fishy to me... even more so since it's on an old, old post that has nothing to do with diabetes. 

Grrrr.  Anyone else tired of these kinds of comments?   Or am I just especially tired/grumpy/cynical?  ;)

A whole blog....

...dedicated to our life with Type I Diabetes?  It's an idea I've toyed around with for quite a while now.  I have a lot to say about diabetes, of course, but it hasn't always felt like that content belonged on my main blog, Tiny Blessings, tucked in between posts about coupon deals and Bible readings.  So, I talked to my husband and daughter, and they supported the idea of starting a blog specifically about this "diabetes world " that we live in.  And... here we are!