All For 1 And 1 For Otto

11/19/2025

💙Imagine saving your child’s life every single day. You do it so often that, somehow, it becomes part of who you are. One minute you are saving them from what could have evolved into a life ending emergency and five minutes later, like nothing ever happened, you are sending them out the door for school. You can rescue them from a dangerous low in the middle of the night, then crawl back into bed and try to sleep again. It becomes instinct. Routine. Second nature. Yet,as unbelievable as it sounds, this is the reality of Type 1 Diabetes.

Some might think that kind of description is exaggerated, but it’s not!! The truth is simple and harsh: without insulin for nearly every bite of food they eat, our children cannot survive. Without a juice box 🧃 or fast-acting sugar during a low, they could slip into a seizure or coma, and the outcome would be unthinkable.

This is the weight T1D places on families. This is the reality we navigate every day.
What others see from the outside often looks small or routine, when the truth is that we are quietly, consistently, habitually saving our children’s lives, every single day, often multiple times a day. 😳🤯

What we do as parents of children with T1D isn’t optional. It’s a demand, and at the end of that demand lies either life or death.

It’s hard to explain what this does to a person over time: to the caregiver, and especially to those living with this disease. The pressure is intense. You don’t get to forget. You don’t get to pause. Forgetting could be fatal. And for imperfect human beings, that weight can be heavy. Crushingly heavy at times.

The advancements in care and technology give us a chance. They give us an edge. They lessen some of the risk, but they don’t erase the need to intervene. Every intervention, every correction, each juice box, those are life-saving moments, every single one.

Diabetes Awareness Month November may only be 1 month, but this is eternity for families managing this disease. We choose to move forward with hope and strength and a lot of love!! We are equipped with knowledge, technology, community, and unshakable hope. T1D is relentless, but we stand ready 24/7

11/18/2025

Story time …
Well today Otto is not doing well but he is ok but things can change so quickly and very hard to straighten out before it goes extremely south!! This was last night. Yes you are reading that right 599. And I believe that’s just how high that meter goes. And yes, that is full-blown panic mode. But let me start in the beginning how we got there because everything runs through your head probably over 1 million times What when why and how? 
Numbers throughout Monday looked pretty darn well with all things considered hormonal growing always hungry never sitting down  13-year-old boy. He goes to Bradco with his friends and he gets a bagel. 🥯 step one carb carb count correctly. One bagel has about 55 carbs. Otto was thinking it had about 40. So we were off a couple of units of insulin there. And it being a heavy carb, he probably could’ve took more. But it is definitely tough figuring all of this out. But yes, it does sound simple. Then getting home for dinner having a new kind of rice for dinner which we do have rice multiple times a week. But this one was a different kind. We’ve used it 3 times. It’s given me some troubles with his blood sugar. I’m officially throwing out the rice.  we took insulin before dinner. He Had two bowls of rice. I gave her a correction dose before he went to bed a significant number of units thinking I would have to wake up and give him a juice box to make it level out. Just wanted the number to go down well it went completely opposite. It kept climbing and climbing and climbing and climbing and climbing. With otto can give him insulin about every 45 minutes and I have figured that out by just doing the science experiments. When does it hit him how hard and how long does the insulin affect his body so it is awaiting a guessing game of how much insulin to give him and timing we did our best It is a fine line to play to not overdose and that is so easily to do. It was a long night of pouring insulin on him with the right timing and amount it didn’t work. It didn’t work at all pump ran out of insulin so we had to change that then he started throwing up wow all these different factors all these different when why how living with T1D is as a full-time job 24/7 not by just the diabetic, but by his team! Not that we failed yesterday and last night and this morning, but diabetes failed us!!!! You have to keep it positive in anyway, you can Otto gets to spend the whole day with mom today 🫶🏼 after experiencing things like this that's all u won't is to be together 🫶🏼

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Happy Diabetes Awareness Day!! But this is not just a day for us this is allll Year!!! Awareness is Education, Advocacy, Support, Empowerment, Community, Prevention, Research, Hope, Strength, teaching, learning, growing and having fun why you do!! We are soo Lucky that we have these opportunities to do them all with You! Keep showing up and helping bringing awareness!! Happppppy Diabetes Awareness Day 💉🩸🫶🏼

10/19/2025

✨💙2025 Breakthrough T1D Walk 💙 ✨

What a amazing day!!! for those who don’t know what Breakthrough T1D is. (Formally, the JDRF )They are the  amazing people/organization that are there when you get out of the hospital to tell you that it’s gonna be OK. 😭 They’re the ones that you cry on their shoulder 😥 They will connect you with the people that you need like friendships, the organizations, the help!! But the most important part about Breakthrough T1D is the donations that you help create to helping our type 1 diabetes community with research for a CURE and the research for the medical devices that our T1D’s wear like the Dexcom & Omni Pod.
I want to think personally every single one of you that has shown up to the events that we have thrown this past year. The Fashion show, Kentucky Derby, dining out for a cause, and our last event INB Bank fundraiser. A huge thank you to everyone that wrote your name down for an auction item at each of these events. A personal thank you to every single one of you that just made a donation to All For 1 and 1 For Otto!! You are making a huge difference in Ottos community!! We raised for breakthrough T1D this year $9515.04 that will make a huge impact!!! THANK YOU for standing by our Otto side!!! But not just today where we celebrated him but every day!!! There is many days/nights that I rely on others to help from listening to his alarms, making sure I wake up in the middle of the night, grabbing him a juice box or a snack at any point to bring up his blood sugar numbers, or answering my phone call in the middle of the night at a slumber party because he’s too low or high or just leaveing your front door unlocked so I can get in if I need!! I truly appreciate all of you. It takes a village. There is nothing better than time donated to know that we have the most amazing village. Thanks for always being there for
Otto and supporting!!!

10/18/2025

We would love to see You tomorrow at the Breakthrough T1D walk🚶🏼‍♂️

Breakthrough T1D walk
Tomorrow Sunday, October 19 We should have a sunny day. ☀️

Walk parking lot opens at 9 AM. The walk will start around 10 AM.

All For 1 and 1 For OTTO has a white tent in the tent area. Come find us!!!! 🫶🏼

There will be bounce houses and activities to do food trucks, and lots of booths to look at and talk to about T1D products

The walk @ 🚶🏼‍➡️🚶🏼‍♀️‍➡️
St. Louis Community College - Meramec
11333 Big Bend Rd Kirkwood, MO 63122

Come and support Otto and his T1D community 🫶🏼🩸💉

We have Team shift for You 🫶🏼👕

Pictures from 2024 

10/12/2025

Wow what amazing event with INB Bank on Thursday. We r truly blessed to have this opportunity to raise funds for the T1D community. Importantly, bring awareness to type one diabetes.  With a lot of work from our amazing sponsors, INB Bank & The Diamonds 💎 Family. We raise $18,850 🎉🍾 Wow a HUGE THANK YOU to our guest for making this happen we cannot throw these amazing events without You!!! Thank you all who showed up participated and donated Thank You Thank You Thank You from this mama’s whole heart 🫶🏼 XO

10/07/2025

T1D Barbie dolls came in for our newly diagnosed baskets 🧺 going to girls at Children’s Hospital newly diagnosed with type one diabetes, just like their Barbie 🫶🏼💞💝🎀

10/02/2025

The new pump is working 😅🤪📉🧃

10/02/2025

There is not too many things to be thankful for with a child of yours having to type one diabetes. But I definitely always try to make the best of things!! As my mom taught me, but I have to share what I am most thankful for with my son having type one diabetes, This bond that we share is unbelievable I would never want my kid not to need me or want to be around me, Hang out with me for whatever reason!! Teenagers 🤪
But he knows more eyes on this the better this is not a one person, illness for the rest of his life or until we find a cure to help all 🤞🏼 this is a family diagnosis that takes more than just one set of eyes 24/7!! As we come up to year almost 3 of Otto’s diagnosis he has came a long, long long way, but not every situation has happened and there is a lot of them  so far it is definitely a crazy journey that we live with a family diagnosis of type one diabetes. But I am truly thankful for the opportunity that I got in life to be really close to my boys!!! 💙💙
Sidenote, I hope they pick out a good one 👰 because I’m not leaving!!!! 😁

09/23/2025

Otto Dexcom (glucose monitor) failed tonight as we were getting home from football game late and we pricked his finger since we could not see a reading and Wow 491 Yes 491 F*** just like my stomach hurts 😳😟 and I'm not sleeping till we get this back on track!!!! Ooo man I'm going to be tired tomorrow!!!! But let’s talk about what this does to Otto body and why it is so important to keep your glucose numbers in range … between 80 and 120 hhhhh he is so far from that right now 😩 it’s not only stressing me out it is killing the inside of Otto 😢 since his body does not have a working pancreas, his body does not produce insulin. If your bodies have Too much  glucose in the blood it can damage blood vessels, nerves, eyes, kidneys, and the heart. These are just some organs that can be damaged. having too much glucose running through your bloodstream is like getting your body power washed by a power washer from the inside out. A human body can only handle so much power washing and then it gives out, brakes, shuts down or organs stops working!!! And this all happens overtime. So otto takes insulin on a regular base hourly!! Around the clock 24/7 and one medical devices don’t work properly which happen more than we wanted to we get stuck and tricky situations like we are more than we would want to. But I know we do our best. But this sucks this sucks bad!!! I wish I could take it all away. But I can’t. So I do what I have to do. I do what I now to do…. Be the best mom I can be, help were I can help with finding a cure for my son!!! We will raise money and have a good time doing it bc that is alllllll we can do. Please join us in the fundraising events that I host to help me help my Otto in finding a cure for T1D!!

Guess what we r on our way back down Otto is at 360 now at 12:47am hhhhhh we r getting back on track he is getting there 🤞🏼 but with that being said we have to watch the other way and make sure it doesn’t get too low under 80 like in the 60s or the 50s or the 40s or the 30s so yes, I will sleep with one eye open and let my 12-year-old  grow boy get his rest. It is not easy being the best mom u can be.….
Hope to see you all at Bread co in Wildwood Tuesday the 23 4-8pm for our next fundraiser helping find a cure!!! 25%  of your order will go back to helping our community of T1D 

at the checkout, let them know you are with the fundraiser 🫶🏼 All for 1 and 1 for Otto 💙