Yesterday was crazy!!

and not in a good way!! Poor K has been under the weather and she had fever yesterday. We're not sure if this is what is effecting her BG levels or if her body is just being wonky - as it just is in this phase of her diagnosis --but we're going w/ the fever for right now. After breakfast, her BG was 432 -crazy high (she ideally should not be above 200) - surely the highest she's been since the day she was diagnosed. There was nothing unusual about her breakfast and relatively low in carbs. (She had cereal and scrambled eggs.) Later, we dosed her a lower than her normal ratio of carbs to insulin for lunch and two hours later, she was 57!! (She should not be below 70) Poor thing - she was just all over the place. OH, and let me point out that before that 432 reading - she vomited! -because she had been coughing so much! I still freaked out (Marc was at work) - so I called the doctor on call - who was awesome. She said that vomiting wouldn't affect her too much because it was mostly fluids (sorry for the yuck factor) and because it was so long after breakfast. She gave me advice on how to deal with her lows and highs and reminded me that fever increases her BG levels so to increase the dosages for now and check her BG more often.
So, after the phone call, when I got that 432 BG reading I decided to check her ketones - in case she had ketoacidosis, which I cannot even explain. (See http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/ketoacidosis-dka.html). I didn't really think she was that sick, but the test is painless and I'd rather catch it early. To check for ketones is kind of like a pregnancy test - I took a special stick from a bottle that we keep on hand and dipped it in K's urine stream super quick. Fifteen seconds later, I then compared the strip to various color ranges on the bottle and THANKFULLY, it indicated that she had negative-to-slight ketones present - nothing to worry about! So, we're just nursing her through this icky cold and she made improvements today; phew!  Sorry for the stream of consciousness writing - but that gives you an idea of my Friday (oh and I never changed out of my pajamas...)