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Author: Christina Elizabeth

I'm a writer, a hardcore Chicagoan and a self-proclaimed chingona. What you read on my blogs are mine and no one else's. Come share in different aspects of my life, I welcome you.
Family…

I do it for me!

29 Apr 202029 Apr 2020
Before this shelter-in-place started in basically mid-March for us in Illinois, I decided that I wanted to start making changes. What did I want to change? Overall, I wanted to…
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Generations of Diabetes

25 Nov 2019
The posts and comments that I've seen a lot of during this National Diabetes Month have to do with passing judgement on other people, which we all know is something…
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The Breastfeeding Saga

21 Nov 201922 Nov 2019
We've been in this game for 3 months now and wow! Can I just say, this is fun? It really is. To see this little person grow and learn, it's…
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I’ve been a mom for a month!

4 Sep 20196 Sep 2019
I'm back and there's so much to tell! I've already been a mother for a month and as surreal as that sounds each time I type it up, it's been…
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Making the Best of a Mental Situation

10 Jul 201910 Jul 2019
Pregnant women do not have a disability. Pregnant women are fully capable of doing things for themselves. Pregnant women are strong; they are warriors. They are bringing the gift of life…
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Hitting Resistance

13 Jun 2019
Honestly, I don't know what my body is doing, but I'm going to say resistance is to blame. I'm currently in my third trimester and almost at 30 weeks. Time's…
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Type 1 Pregabetics and the Docs

13 May 201913 May 2019
A few nights ago, I started thinking about it, as I sat up in bed eating Fig Newtons and a Twix bar because my blood sugars were at 47 and…
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Settling the Spikes

6 May 2019
We all go through it, we, people with diabetes. The awful spikes that happen after you eat a scrumptious meal, that many of us battle to get back down to…
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The more you try…

29 Mar 2019
Even without being pregnant, managing blood sugar levels is one of the hardest things to do. That's what makes having diabetes so hard. It's also what makes people give up…
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Success in numbers

25 Feb 2019
As I previously mentioned in my last blog, I'm pregnant. Along with that, since this is my first pregnancy, I've been vigilant and reading pretty much everything I can get…

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Don’t Stop Tweeting!

  • It's kinda nice coming in and having the new gig you work for get this kind of honor. Not bad! twitter.com/Livongo/status… 8 months ago
  • Thanks for the box of @Splenda and the card! When @dunkindonuts messed up my order and added regular sugar instead… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 months ago
  • And then my #BG won't come down, so there's that, too. twitter.com/kiki416/status… 8 months ago
  • That annoying feeling when you order a coffee with @Splenda and they give you regular sugar anyway! And here I go t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 months ago
  • It doesn't make me selfish to put myself first and I'm not afraid to say, "I do it for me!" Read more on my new blo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 months ago
  • Love thy #frontline #HealthcareWorkers. "The emotional toll of COVID-19 is tricky to predict... When you are worr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 months ago

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