Day 3 #HAWMC: Good Samaritan

Random acts of kindness...who doesn't love them? Especially if you're in the line at Starbucks and someone pays for your coffee ahead of you!! But in the diabetes world it can be life changing. I have had two D mom's at two different times help us out. Both of my girls are on Medtronic pumps but my middle daughter is on the CGM as well. When MySentry came out it was all the rage and totally out of our budget. When you have two T1D kids and a hemophiliac son non-essential diabetes supplies are just that...non-essential. A year went by and I had a friend whose daughter hated her CGM and was taking a break. She offered to let me borrow her MySentry. I LOVED it!! Being able to see my daughter's blood sugar at home and not nag her was life changing! I was able to move the baby monitor out of her bedroom as it was no longer needed to hear the beeps of the CGM. She felt free! It was awesome! We were fortunate enough to use it for quite a while before my friend needed it back again for her daughter. We were sad to see it go but man, we loved it while we had it. Then about a year ago another friend messaged me that her daughter had changed pumps and CGM's and asked if we wanted the MySentry will some additional diabetes supplies. Uh...YES, PLEASE!! We were back in business! MySentry plugged in; baby monitor out of the room. It was such a blessing! The pure wonderment of not having one but two friends at different times offer us the use of their MySentry without a single hesitation and with no strings attached. I am humbled to know these ladies. In their honor I have paid it forward tenfold. I am happy to help with extra diabetes supplies whenever I can. I know how precious these supplies are and how costly they can be. So thank you to my two beautifully selfless D mom's and thank you, readers, if you are ever able to pay it forward.