I'm a very blessed woman. I have a lot of love and goodness in my life. I have a beautiful family. We work hard together. We take care of one another. We have our ups and downs, but all in all, we are so blessed.
I have been truly blessed by my T1D community this week as well. I recently learned that I am likely allergic to plastic cannula infusion sets. This is by far the majority of the infusion sets out there. It explains the struggles I've been having. The same struggles I had while previously pumping have come back in full force to haunt me. Struggles have included sudden highs when I change sets, difficulty healing from a set change, red skin around the insertion site, not being able to use the same spots again for very prolonged periods of time, my body completely rejecting sets, etc... While being sick this past month, I honestly almost gave up again. But then I put a sure t back in. My numbers have been better, near perfect, ever since I haven't put another plastic cannula in me.
It was a big frustration as well due to the fact that my entire supply is plastic cannulas. So I've been working on replacing them all with sure t sets. I've tried to trade, but didn't have much luck. No luck at all really... Lots of people don't like the steel needle sets, so they didn't have anything to trade. Things were looking bleak. Then I had 2 ladies offer to send me a few sure t sets each to get me by till I can figure out what to do. Truly a blessing, and I'm so grateful to them! They wanted nothing in return even though I tried to offer. It gave me the faith to go out on a limb today and give my plastic sets to someone else who truly needs them and is suffering to afford supplies like so many T1D's do! It is so hard to just hand them over when you're in a tight spot as well, but every time I do, I'm blessed for it! About an hour after making arrangements for my plastic sets, someone posted in a T1D group about sharing her daughter's extensive supply of sure t sets. She's sharing with me and several other people.
It has been so neat to see this happen time and time again. Whenever I've given from my T1D supplies, the blessings come back and then some. They are not left to go without and neither am I. I'm truly grateful to God for showing me this over and over again. I'm glad He lets me serve others! "Because I have been given much, I too must give." And it takes faith every time to do it, but that's ok. If you want to have faith, you need to do something that requires faith to accomplish it!
I feel peace!
Goodnight sweethearts!
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