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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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....
Continue Reading »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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(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...
Continue Reading »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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(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...
Continue Reading »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...
Continue Reading »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...
Continue Reading »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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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