My Mom Does This Thing

         Whenever I'm at a doctor's office, or in a meeting, or just talking to someone when my mom is around she does this thing. Somehow diabetes gets brought up (doesn't it always?) and she just talks and talks and talks. As in, I can't even say one word about MY diabetes because she's talking about it so much. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. I know it just means she cares. But dang, is it annoying!
         Now, most of the time when we're at home, my mom and I don't really talk about diabetes. I'm in charge of it and she knows I'm doing pretty well. There's the occasional "Did you change your site today?" or "Is your blood sugar still high from earlier?" but that's about it. She doesn't know my basal rates, or my ISF, or my carb ratios, or that eating M&Ms makes me high for hours. Not that she doesn't care, she just leaves it up to me.
         That all changes when we're around other people. I don't know why. She just talks and talks and talks. Yesterday, we went to meet with the school nurse and take my supplies in. I was talking about my Dexcom (if you haven't heard, I named her Pixie) and then my mom just goes off on how it's great, and it shows trends, and blah blah blah. The nurse asked how long I keep my sensor on and I was about to answer when my mom said "oh, a few days!" I was about to say how it stays on a week, and probably longer, but my mom was already talking about something else diabetes-related.
        Should I be happy because this means she cares? Probably. But is this really annoying? Yes.


PS- I named my Dexcom Pixie and my pump Stix. Like Pixie Stix? Ha. Ha. Sugar. Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who finds this amusing.