Dahlia, Barkley & T1D

11/21/2025

Just because!

11/21/2025

In September, Dahlia did a voiceover for a new Pediatric ER. Here is her commercial! Dahlia keeps on amazing us and showing us that our Warr1ors can do ANYTHING! 💙💙💙

Brooklyn kids are built different. And they know that Maimonides Children's Emergency Department is built just for them. As the only children's hospital and ...

11/20/2025

Type 1 Diabetes is hard. It can be scary, and exhausting, and painful, and frustrating, and heavy, but it is survivable. With some training, care, and attention, Diabetics can thrive! Here is our girl, doing what she loves. We are all so very proud of her! Presenting, Small Alice from Alice in Wonderland Jr!

11/18/2025

Today is a day where no matter what we seem to do, we just can’t get her leveled out. So many things could be affecting her.

11/15/2025

4 years ago our lives changes forever. Our little girl was diagnosed with Type 1. It was in the middle of the pandemic and we had to spend the night in the ER because there were no beds left on the Pediatric floor. From a scared little 7 year old to the warr1or she is today, Dahlia has kicked Diabetes butt, every single day for 4 years! Through diagnosis, DKA, fundraising, getting Barkley, to basically crushing life, Dahlia never stops making us proud. “Normal life” seemed impossible 4 years ago, now we know that Dahlia is unstoppable! Happy 4th Diaversary! Happy Thrive Day, Dahlia!

11/14/2025

Today is World Diabetes Day! Be sure to wear blue. Post a picture below so I can show Dahlia all the people supporting her!

11/13/2025

Here we are at the Endocrinologist for our 3 month check up. Today we do blood work as well. Dahlia is excited to turn in her Beads of Courage sheets!

11/12/2025

We are so incredibly lucky to have a service dog for Dahlia. She is so well trained and has saved Dahlia multiple times. Many times before Barkley alerts, we get “the stare”. Here she is, right before an alert, giving me the famous stare!

11/11/2025

Last night was a long night.

11/11/2025

Sometimes Type 1 looks like winning your spelling bee, or playing one of the leads in the school musical, or having fun at dance class. Other times, it looks like being woken up to eat applesauce (again) in the middle of the night because your blood sugar has been low for a while.

This is the part of Diabetes that the outside world doesn’t see: middle on the night finger pokes (she doesn’t even wake up for those anymore), “midnight picnics”, middle of the night shots and/or sight changes. And these Warr1ors get up the next day and carry on as if it never happened.

11/10/2025

Fatigue and burnout are real with diabetes. Diabetics and their caregivers make so many extra decisions a day just to get through the day. There are no days off. It’s endless. We try and teach Dahlia to be responsible for her condition, but we also take over when she is showing signs of burnout.

11/09/2025

It was Spa Day for Miss Barkley Girl! She’s still a little damp from her bath, but I swear she lost 10 lbs of hair! She’s such a good girl! She deserves a day of pampering after an all-day outing yesterday. 💙