For somewhat obvious reasons, I was kind of dreading Halloween. As friends/family reminded me - we never let our kids go crazy Halloween night with candy. I know some families let their kid(s) eat as much as they want that night and then just dispose of the candy (or not). We are the opposite- we let them have a few pieces that night and then let them have pieces throughout the year (yes, it usually lasts that long). It keeps us from buying other sweets and bringing them home - there are always little treats available this way.
So, we let all the kids pick three pieces of candy when we got back from "trick or treating". We counted the carbs of K's, dosed her and let her enjoy them. She devoured them, went to bed and two hours later - her blood sugar (BG) was like 106!!! --at 2 in the morning, it was 85!!!! and she woke up around the perfect 100. Phew!
On a side note, her mid morning BGs this week have been really high. I spoke with her case manager today and we're lowering her morning ratio of carbs to insulin (which I had been doing on my own anyhow - but we'll lower even more). This whole thing is really quite unscientific and really nerve-racking!! But we're freaking out less - that's good, right?
Another side note - we've raised $2725 for JDRF in less than 3 weeks!!! Thanks to all the donors!! K gets that we're raising money to hopefully cure her some day. (I hope she doesn't come home and says 'when do i get the cure???")
On July 27, 2010, we found out that our 3.5 year old daughter has Type 1 Diabetes. When we started meeting other parents of children with diabetes, they all said that it gets easier... It does; it becomes the new normal. But it has yet to be "easy" but no one said it would be "easy", just "easier".
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