geoviki | (no subject)

Happy birthday, JKR and HJP. But I always remember today as the anniversary of my son's diagnosis of diabetes. I talked about what that day was like in this entry last year. Here are the symptoms of diabetes onset; I thought I could recognize them but I found it was a lot like the signs in C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair - they didn't look like what I expected in a kid who 1) wore (and still wears) baggy clothes that make Dudley's hand-me-downs look like Ralph Lauren 2) spent his days outdoors in 90+ degree summer heat.

Warnings signs of diabetes:

C onstant urination
A bnormal thirst
U nusual hunger
T he rapid loss of weight
I rritability
O bvious weakness and fatigue
N ausea and vomiting

On a lighter note, I'm taking a break from packing. Tomorrow my family and I are heading to Alaska (oh, blessed coolness!) and will explore Anchorage and the Kenai Penninsula, then board the Statendam for a week-long cruise to Vancouver. We'll be gone for the next two weeks.

Packing, as you all know, is a beotch, especially when the rooms in our house are far too hot. We have to play dress-up for dinner on the boat, and for a family of Denverites, that's like asking us to wear our formal wizarding robes. Formal means the flip-flops with sequins, right?