All For 1 And 1 For Otto

10/18/2025

We would love to see You tomorrow at the Breakthrough T1D walk🚶🏼‍♂️

Breakthrough T1D walk
Tomorrow Sunday, October 19 We should have a sunny day. ☀️

Walk parking lot opens at 9 AM. The walk will start around 10 AM.

All For 1 and 1 For OTTO has a white tent in the tent area. Come find us!!!! 🫶🏼

There will be bounce houses and activities to do food trucks, and lots of booths to look at and talk to about T1D products

The walk @ 🚶🏼‍➡️🚶🏼‍♀️‍➡️
St. Louis Community College - Meramec
11333 Big Bend Rd Kirkwood, MO 63122

Come and support Otto and his T1D community 🫶🏼🩸💉

We have Team shift for You 🫶🏼👕

Pictures from 2024 

10/12/2025

Wow what amazing event with INB Bank on Thursday. We r truly blessed to have this opportunity to raise funds for the T1D community. Importantly, bring awareness to type one diabetes.  With a lot of work from our amazing sponsors, INB Bank & The Diamonds 💎 Family. We raise $18,850 🎉🍾 Wow a HUGE THANK YOU to our guest for making this happen we cannot throw these amazing events without You!!! Thank you all who showed up participated and donated Thank You Thank You Thank You from this mama’s whole heart 🫶🏼 XO

10/07/2025

T1D Barbie dolls came in for our newly diagnosed baskets 🧺 going to girls at Children’s Hospital newly diagnosed with type one diabetes, just like their Barbie 🫶🏼💞💝🎀

10/02/2025

The new pump is working 😅🤪📉🧃

10/02/2025

There is not too many things to be thankful for with a child of yours having to type one diabetes. But I definitely always try to make the best of things!! As my mom taught me, but I have to share what I am most thankful for with my son having type one diabetes, This bond that we share is unbelievable I would never want my kid not to need me or want to be around me, Hang out with me for whatever reason!! Teenagers 🤪
But he knows more eyes on this the better this is not a one person, illness for the rest of his life or until we find a cure to help all 🤞🏼 this is a family diagnosis that takes more than just one set of eyes 24/7!! As we come up to year almost 3 of Otto’s diagnosis he has came a long, long long way, but not every situation has happened and there is a lot of them  so far it is definitely a crazy journey that we live with a family diagnosis of type one diabetes. But I am truly thankful for the opportunity that I got in life to be really close to my boys!!! 💙💙
Sidenote, I hope they pick out a good one 👰 because I’m not leaving!!!! 😁

09/23/2025

Otto Dexcom (glucose monitor) failed tonight as we were getting home from football game late and we pricked his finger since we could not see a reading and Wow 491 Yes 491 F*** just like my stomach hurts 😳😟 and I'm not sleeping till we get this back on track!!!! Ooo man I'm going to be tired tomorrow!!!! But let’s talk about what this does to Otto body and why it is so important to keep your glucose numbers in range … between 80 and 120 hhhhh he is so far from that right now 😩 it’s not only stressing me out it is killing the inside of Otto 😢 since his body does not have a working pancreas, his body does not produce insulin. If your bodies have Too much  glucose in the blood it can damage blood vessels, nerves, eyes, kidneys, and the heart. These are just some organs that can be damaged. having too much glucose running through your bloodstream is like getting your body power washed by a power washer from the inside out. A human body can only handle so much power washing and then it gives out, brakes, shuts down or organs stops working!!! And this all happens overtime. So otto takes insulin on a regular base hourly!! Around the clock 24/7 and one medical devices don’t work properly which happen more than we wanted to we get stuck and tricky situations like we are more than we would want to. But I know we do our best. But this sucks this sucks bad!!! I wish I could take it all away. But I can’t. So I do what I have to do. I do what I now to do…. Be the best mom I can be, help were I can help with finding a cure for my son!!! We will raise money and have a good time doing it bc that is alllllll we can do. Please join us in the fundraising events that I host to help me help my Otto in finding a cure for T1D!!

Guess what we r on our way back down Otto is at 360 now at 12:47am hhhhhh we r getting back on track he is getting there 🤞🏼 but with that being said we have to watch the other way and make sure it doesn’t get too low under 80 like in the 60s or the 50s or the 40s or the 30s so yes, I will sleep with one eye open and let my 12-year-old  grow boy get his rest. It is not easy being the best mom u can be.….
Hope to see you all at Bread co in Wildwood Tuesday the 23 4-8pm for our next fundraiser helping find a cure!!! 25%  of your order will go back to helping our community of T1D 

at the checkout, let them know you are with the fundraiser 🫶🏼 All for 1 and 1 for Otto 💙

09/20/2025

We are raising dough 💰 to help kids with type 1 diabetes, with Panera bread, Co. in Wildwood on this Tuesday, September 23 from 4 to 8 PM. Come and have dinner with us or go through the drive-through and pick it up. and of course you can order on your phone use the code FUND4U We would love to see you there also!!! It’s a Day before Otto’s birthday so you know we will be Celebrating 🥳  🎂 All for great cause hope to see you all there 🫶🏼

09/14/2025

The things that I watch for in the morning as a T1D caregiver… Otto spend the night at a friend’s house  I don’t want to call him and wake him up, cause it’s Sunday and who knows how late they stayed up. We wait for the blood sugars to rise he’s awake. He’s active he’s breathing and he could be eating. Lol Moms calling!!!!

And I know some of you are like wow you let your T1D kid spend the night out yes I do He still has to be a 12 year-old kid with fun things to look forward to and nothing’s going to stop him from being a kid nothing!!! but as the mom/caregiver of the T1D kid, I have prayed to the sugar gods in the middle of the night, I have walked in people’s front doors numerous of times to find my kid and give him a juice box midnight 3 AM 5 AM whatever I have to do. And I have called parents and woke them up several times sometimes they answer sometimes they don’t. Just remember if my kids spend the night please leave the front door unlocked. I may be showing up in the middle the night with a juice box 🧃 that’s just what we have to do and a T1D Family 🫶🏼

09/09/2025

We are hosting a fundraiser night at Chipotle, 1 week from today, on Tuesday, September 16, from 4 to 8 PM, located on Manchester Road in Ellisville, at the intersection of Manchester and Clarkson. You may also place an online order, utilizing the code YF9KCXR, to have your meal prepared for pickup. Please ensure to present the flyer  at checkout. Thank you so much for all your support helping out the T1D community 🫶🏼 
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09/07/2025

Otto Breakthrough T1D Walk🚶‍➡️is Coming Up October 19 Starting at 10 AM at
St. Louis Community College - Meramec

11333 Big Bend Rd Kirkwood, MO 63122

You know we like to have a Party and this is a great excuse!!!!!
We would LOVE for you guys to join in a fun filled day supporting Otto and the T1D community.  So put it on your calendar 📆 and bring the family!!!

Make a donation if it’s feasible bigger or small to help us find a cure for T1D and the research for all of Otto’s medical supplies that he wears every day!! They have came so far and all the research. He is now on a G7 Dexcom and now on a Omni Pod 5. Thank you to all the research we have so far but we’re not stopping there. Can’t wait for the G8, 9 or 10 it only gets better from here.  These are things to help keep my kid alive. We appreciate the donation the support and showing up!!! Otto means the world to us!!!!!!!! 💙

https://www2.breakthrought1d.org/site/TR?fr_id=10296&pg=team&team_id=365130vo

Our team is walking and raising funds to support the most promising, cutting-edge science to create a world without T1D. Join us!

09/02/2025

This has been our day as we fight the good fight with my son Otto’s type one diabetes there’s 1 million factors into this situation and if you don’t get all of them precise, this is where you’re at. It is a fight that we fight every single day in the middle of the night first thing in the morning with breakfast. After breakfast during all day at school. After school, the snack playing soccer outback. Preparing for the next sport that we need to go to. Managing at the sport. And then there’s always dinner. Being precise during all of this. Then there’s after dinner. And then back to all night again, managing it.
Someone asked me recently so you and your son don’t really get a break That’s a tricky question I said we have our good days and we have our bad days and we have a really good days and we have a really bad days. It’s like a roller coaster. Today’s a really bad day with our diabetes. It all started  at breakfast. The miscalculation of a 🍓 🫐🍌 protein shake a slight of a miscalculation not catching the high because a 12-year-old boy at school necessarily doesn’t worry about his diabetes all the time. Thank God he doesn’t. And he still lives his life as a 12-year-old boy. But damn that’s a fine line. Of living with diabetes as a 12-year-old boy.

When his numbers are high or a roller coaster of the ups and downs it damage his organs From his lungs to his heart to his toes and fingers his eyesight his mobility to move , but later on in life. So we are not just trying to keep him alive now but we are trying to keep him alive when he’s 30 and 40 and 50 and 60 and 70 years old with healthy organs. Someone explained it to me very clearly. When your numbers are high, 200 300 400 your organs are being power washed by your sugar levels due to not having enough insulin running through the body. You ask, why don’t you just give them more insulin? We do. But realistically it is a science experiment with all the different factors when we give him insulin. But you have to remember insulin is a deadly drug. You can overdose very very very easily. We are lucky we’ve only had one scare like that and Otto’s two years of being diagnosed. Yes I called that lucky!!!!
Every person is different timing of insulin and amount it is trial and error to figure it out. Yep, I’m serious. Trial and error. We’ve came a long way in two years a long, long way. But a whole lifetime to go.

But I promise I will fight this good fight with my kid every day 24/7 💉🩸🫶🏼💙

06/22/2025

Oooo Summertime 💉☀️