Great. And to have your company here on, on the international. Im good. How about the, the the the i was about to travel to texas, and unfortunately our entire family have come down and you know, and large families, it just travels down from one child to the next to that. And this time it was here it, it hung on a little bit longer than the others. So we took her to the attrition and he took a look at her and he said, shes fine. Its just a bad flu this year. Dont worry about it. And the next day she got worse, everything had changed with her daughter. She was completely lent. She was having trouble breathing. I called my husband. I was in total panic when jamie arrived or later that morning, one of the charge nurse has to one look is here and didnt even process paperwork. Took her out of jamies arms and we started working on and they told me they were ordering a medical transport, taking her to the best Childrens Hospital the they did a few tests and pretty quickly they came back and t
I was about to travel to texas, and unfortunately our entire family have come down and you know, and large families, it just travels down from one child to the next to that. And this time that was here, it it hung on a little bit longer than the other. So we took her to the attrition and he took a look at her and he said, shes fine. Its just about flu this year. Dont worry about it. And the next day she got worse. Everything had changed with her daughter. She was completely lent. She was having trouble breathing. I called my husband, i was an total payments. When jamie arrived at the or later that morning, one of the charge harriss to one look is here and didnt even process paperwork. Took her out of jamies arms and immediately started working on her. They told me they were ordering a medical transport, taking her to the best childrens hospital, the they did a few tests and pretty quickly they came back and they told jamie and your daughter is having a diabetic ketoacidosis. Those word
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When you see your child sitting there lifeless, and all the tubes hooked up in the monitor, sleeping, all you can think is praying for mercy that god, thats fair. Bring her back to you. The. The word diabetes comes from the ancient greek word for funnel because was so much drinking and youre needing a diabetic, seemingly funneled out. Anything that they drank the world has been studying the disease ever since. And after all of this time, there is still not an exact noun cause, and there is still no known tour type one diabetes. What we know is that for some reason, your body attacks itself, your immune system mistakenly destroys all of the beta cells that make your bodys natural insulin leaving you unable to make any diagnosis. Type one diabetes. The general guidelines from the Diabetes Association to the Diabetes Community is that a person with diabetes does not need to change their diet. As long as they practice their recommended method for controlling the disease by counting carbohy
Lincoln, massachusetts. She has written about civil war us western history and American Culture for the New York Times the Washington Post Smithsonian Magazine preservation magazine and civil war monitor nelson earned her va in history and literature from the Harvard University from Harvard University and her phd in american studies from the university of iowa, and she has taught at Texas Tech University cal state fullerton harvard and brown nelson is the author of saving yellowstone three cornered war ruin nation and Trembling Earth and were so excited to have her with us today. So before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. If not that link is posted in the chat. So that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. Hi everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you nicole for that lovely introduction and to