Micah and Me

Please wait for the host to start this meeting. I’d stared at this familiar screen command while sitting in my tiny home office, built-in white bookshelves on both sides of me, then looked out the window above my desk. It was early spring, and the grass had started to turn from brown to green, our …

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December 24, 2009. That date is Micah’s diaversary, a term people who have (or love someone with) type 1 diabetes call the date they were diagnosed. It was also, for me, the beginning of a long period of mourning for the life we had–for the life Micah had–before all the needles, test strips, and insulin. …

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