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Stair Stepper

Blood sugars stayed in a better range last night. I appreciated not waking up to the Dexcom alarm going off constantly. I still notice a trend where Mylin's...

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Quiet Day

(Daniel) Nationwide Children's put us on the books to take a look at Mylin's incision this morning. Thankfully it looked much better this morning than it did yesterday....

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Ups and Downs

Tif had the idea of keeping a blog of our TPIAT journey with Mylin and, as usual, she had a great idea. It's been great in several ways....

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Diabetes Ceremony and a Zoo Day

(Daniel) Over the past few weeks, I've often thought about someone who told me that diabetes was essentially a solved problem with modern technology. I get what they...

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I like turtles

(Daniel) Mylin was nauseous and in a lot of pain when we went to bed last night. They didn't get comfortable until around 2 am. It was hard...

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Mellow day with a rough end

(Daniel) Mylin's sugar stayed elevated for a while last night and I stayed awake till a little after midnight when the correction started to do its job and...

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Super Girl

(Daniel) Today felt surreal. In a good way, but surreal. We got to bed late last night but Mylin immediately fell into a deep sleep. 6 hours of...

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Home is where the McDonald is

(Daniel) Mylin and I both slept good last night, as far as hospital sleep goes. Blood sugar was stable all night. Now that Mylin's pump is on automated...

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Back in SD

7/21/2026 (Tif) The twins and I got back to SD after midnight last night. As I saw the 94 Freeway and recognized we were likely flying over our...

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Not out of the hospital quite yet

(Daniel) I'm writing this at 7pm, and Mylin is still extremely nauseous. We tried multiple things to help today. I vented their G tube 3 different times, even...

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Mylin Schaaff

Lemon Grove, CA

Transplant Type: Islet Cell

Transplant Status: Transplanted

Goal: $100,000.00

Raised: $47,540 of $100,000 goal

Raised by 144 contributors