Did we get approved for the pump?????

I recently, as you all know, have become intrigued by the topic of hope!  If anything I think it will help Reed with his sense of hope in living with Diabetes.  With that being said, are you hopeful or hopeless?

The basic needs of hope according to "Hope in the Age of Anxiety" by Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller are attachment, mastery, or survival.  There are three "pure forms" of hopelessness and a breakdown in one of these three needs can most certainly be overcome.  These three are "alienation, powerlessness, and doom".  By recognizing which one of these we need to confront, we can restructure our thoughts and become armed with prescriptions of hope that put the light back into our lives.

In my own life, I am a very hopeful person.  I hope for a cure for Diabetes, I hope for happiness in our family, and most of all I hope for Reed to be successful in whatever journey he takes.  With these thoughts, I realize that my Brooke also is a very hopeful person.  Her dreams and desires are to become a surgeon.  She is determined to accomplish great and wonderful things, and I know that she will.  Where is your hope?

Reed is the "Shooter" (he gives himself his insulin shots) and I am the "Pricker" or as he calls me the "Prick"...every single time we laugh about this and I know people are wondering why he is calling his mother the "Prick"...if they only knew, huh?  We have learned that we are powerful over the disease of diabetes, we have days where we feel alienated (after he spent the afternoon in the condo at the beach with his great friend Freddie and we were in the heat...I think he was the smart one), there are always  words that coms to us that inspire us during the day, and most of all we are not limited by the disease...we maybe challenged, but not limited.  Helplessness is not an option.

As we pack to come home from the beach, I ask you, is hopelessness an option?  Do you want to be hopeful?  By coming to the realization and clinging to hope in the midst of trials, a difficult situation can become bearable, hope will enable you to get through it.

"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" Romans 15:4.

We have had a wonderful vacation---tours of Savannah, dolphin cruise, ate at Paula Deen's restaurant, and had more of the beach than some of us can tolerate.  Today we are going to the Bass Pro Shop...yipee, can you feel my excitement!  I can't wait to get back home....sleep in my bed, and not have gritty sand on my feet even when I am inside, but I know that God gave me this trip with Reed (and everybody else) to become even more comfortable in our skin...ohhh, and by the way....we have been approved for the pump, and may even have it before school starts back!!!!!!!