After they finished decorating, Kacey decided to be creative again. Since she was diagnosed, she has this issue with saving used test strips. She has a little dish that she drops them in and when she gets enough of them she makes a picture with them. When she did the first one, I wasn't sure if it was something we should be doing. I mean, after all, they do have used blood on them and some people get all bent out of shape with the idea of that....BUT....this was Kaceys blood so I knew as long as we only kept them at our house then we were fine. Well...while I was talking with one of the teachers at school, the topic of these pictures came up. She asked me why Kacey makes them? Well...it's sorta like "therapy" for her. She has to do something painful but then she uses that and makes something creative with it. So I was telling her that Kacey wanted to share the pics with family but I had to explain to her that some people just dont like the idea of "blood" so she gave me a fantastic idea....laminate them! OMG! Thats great! Plus it keeps the strips from coming off and we can save them for years to come. I thought maybe we'd start a "Test Strip Scrapbook" and when she gets older, it will be something she can look back on. But...she gave away her first picture this morning.
She made this one for Nae-Nae (my Mom) and we laminated it and took it to her this morning. We aren't going to make it a habit of giving these pictures out but she wanted to make one for my Mom for Christmas. This pic was 29 pokes....thats 29 sugar tests...about 3 days worth! So when she gave it to my Mom she was so proud of herself and my Mom went on to make a dramatic excited reaction and told her she would display it :) Ahhhh...whatever it takes to get her thru a daily poke! BTW...I have 13 more pics to laminate...LOL! I'll post them soon!Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
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WOW!! Kacey is very creative....I think you could market this for Christmas...take a photo of the card, then make photo cards from them with a Merry Christmas greeting and blurb about the test strips and/or diabetes and suggestion to give for a cure ....a lot of people are looking for tax deductible causes this time of year. Anyway....sorry for going off...I just think it's a marvelous picture!!:-)
Neat! I never thought about doing that :D I need to take pics of all the other ones she did and post them up. They are so cute but yet have so much meaning. Only T1's and parents would really understand just how much meaning they have tho ;)
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