Lisa Powell
Lisa Powell is the author of "Type 1 Diabetes for People Who Don't Have It", available at Lulu and Amazon. Read more from her at 6shotsaday.blogspot.com
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How to Have a Type 1 Diabetic Child in Your Classroom, but Not in Your CareEven if you're not responsible for the medical care of a child with diabetes -- because the child has a parent watching over him, an aide assisting him, or a nurse he's in the care of -- you will want to know a little bit about his diabetes. -
Why Teachers Home SchoolWhy I Left Behind the Public School System and Brought My Kids Away With Me -
What My Type 1 Diabetic Child Tells Me About Your Type 2 DiabetesType 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition where no insulin is produced at all, is an entirely different condition from Type 2, where insulin is produced but not as effective as it needs to be. -
Hypotension in Children: How Salt Taught My Kid to ReadOur Three Year Personal Story of Blood Pressure, Abdominal Pain, and Cognition -
What the Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes Looked like in Our ToddlerThe symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are often overlooked until they reach a critical stage in the very young. -
Ten Tips for Dealing with Medical BillingWorking With Insurance and Billing Department Representatives to Get Your Bills Paid Fairly -
Things I Didn't Know Before My Bilateral Stereotactic BiopsyA biopsy is a simple sampling of cells and it can look very different depending on the individual's circumstances. If one is recommended for you or someone you know, these things I learned might help you develop questions to ask a radiologist or surgeon.
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How to Reduce Ketones in Your Bloodstream when You Are Not DiabeticKetones enter the bloodstream and urine when your body burns fat for energy. In a diabetic, this can be caused by a deficiency of insulin and can lead to a dangerous acidified blood condition known as diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA.
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Five Ways to Know If You've Got a Good Parish PriestWhen you walk in to a Catholic parish for the first time, what clues are there that your priest is going to be a shepherd to your family, instead of just the guy you all dodge at the end of Mass? -
Five Reasons For Moving to the Rocky Mountains of ColoradoGrandeur and skiing aside, there are unexpected benefits to moving to a Colorado mountain community. -
Ten Things to Consider Before Moving to the RockiesThe Rocky Mountains have a unique environment with its own joys and hazards. -
Is Taxation Theft?Nearly half of Americans don't pay federal income tax. Since tax money is spent on the common good, from national park maintenance to defending our borders, half of Americans are enjoying the use of property that does not belong to them. Is it theft?
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Handy but Odd Things to Remember Your First Year Home SchoolingHome schooling the first year is scary. It's easy to feel you'll be judged if you don't get it right straight out of the gate -- and often that paranoia is justified.
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Ten Downright Difficult Ways to Save Your Family MoneyYou've used loyalty cards and watered your lawn during off-peak hours, moved on to cooking dried pintos and rice and carpooling, and you're still in the hole. Give a shot at using some of the truly painful tips you find here.
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Ten More Not-So-Easy Ways to Save Your Family MoneyIn these hard times, the standard ways to save money often aren't enough. Try a few harder ways to see if you can up your game.
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Ten Silly Things People Say to Folks with Type 1 DiabetesType 1 Diabetes used to be called juvenile diabetes, because kids got it. They still do, but thanks to the miracle of insulin many of those kids have grown up into healthy adults who call the condition "Type 1" instead.
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How to Hike with Little KidsKids love the woods,. Hook them on hiking before they become teens who roll their eyes at the thought of walking anywhere but the mall. But you can't hike with a young one the same way you'd hike with an adult friend. -
Ten Not-So-Easy Ways to Save Your Family MoneyMost of us in these hard times have used our first-choice money-saving strategies until they've been worn threadbare. -
NonCatholics and Cathoic CommunionWhen is it proper to join the Eucharistic celebration at a Catholic Mass? The answer can be complicated.
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Wolf Pack Culture: Recognizing Peer Intimidation & Social Manipulation in ClassroomsParents are increasingly becoming aware of currents within the social groups of their adolescents and teens that are alarming. It is important that adults not ignore their instincts when it comes to disturbing behavior in our young people.
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Cat Scratching PostsCats encourage healthy nail growth with scratching; removing tips prevents breakage later. A scratching post gives the cat a chance to stretch muscles and to mark territory. A simple cat post also discourages ruining furniture and carpeting.
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Home School Catechism IdeasTry these tips for developing your home school Catholic catechesis program.