The Diabetic Bride-To-Be

Hello everyone! So my last blog post got OVER 700 views!! Thank you sooooo much for reading, sharing, or liking! I can't believe it got that many views! So for this post PLEASE read, share, and like! This shows me that you guys enjoy what I am reading, and I hope that you do! :) So I wanted to talk about if a diabetic bride should have a wedding planner or not. Since I LOVE planning events I don't need help with planning for really anything! Plus I have Jake, my family, and friends to help me with some of it. For the day of the wedding, we have decided to have one. Since that day is going to be very busy with not only with me getting married but with my diabetes I know that I don't want to have to worry about anything going wrong plus me worrying about my blood sugar. I know that with a wedding coordinator, she will make sure that the wedding is going well so then I can worry about my diabetes during the day. The wedding coordinator will keep things...

Hello everyone!! So I thought that it would be cool to talk about ideas on wearing an insulin pump while wearing your wedding dress. While looking for my wedding dress, I thought about many things. Where should I put my pump? Where should I put my Dexcom? Should I wear a ball gown to hide it better or could I wear a mermaid style dress with it? I am sure those thoughts go through every diabetic bride's mind, but that shouldn't take away from what you actually want to wear. As I was trying on dresses, I did leave my pump on just so that I can get an idea of what I could do with it. Some people use a wrap around their leg and then hook their pump on that, some people may even go pumpless for the day just so that they don't have to worry about it, but what I have decided to do is put my pump in my chest area. I thought that this will be easier to pull out when I needed to take insulin. So for every dress that I tried on I put my pump in my chest area. You can't even see ...