Trudging along

Well, K is nearing 10 months of having diabetes. I admire her spirit every day. She is such a trooper, seriously. I feel like I haven't had much to say of late, and I guess that's a good thing. Nothing is "easy" but we have just become used to the freak-show BG swings and to the daily challenges.  It's just our new "normal". If you lived my life for just one day, you'd wonder how we do it - but if you had to do it every day like we do - you just get used to it.

So, example of a fun blood glucose (BG) swing: Yesterday, when I picked K up from pre-school at noon, she seemed a little sluggish, so I checked her BG in the parking lot and it was 57 (too low; we don't want it under 70). Yoiks. I quickly gave her two glucose pills, adding up to 8 grams of total carbs. When I checked her 15 minutes later, she was 167. Last night, when her BG was 64, her dad gave her two glucose pills and when I checked her about 20 minutes later, she was down to 63. There is NO rhyme or reason to this!!

Earlier this month, we took a successful family camping trip to Yosemite and her BGs were pretty good. She tended to go low, so it was fun to just hand her free carbs as we were hiking around. Right before that trip and since, she was tending to go very high on her last day of the infusion set of her pump (she wears the same set for three days). So by the end of the second day, things just weren't right. So, this past Sunday, we switched her insulin (same, fast acting, just a different brand...) and we are on day 3 now and it's much better, though we're having to make adjustments because she's going too low before midnight and then too high by 3AM. As a side note, although I'm getting used to the 3AM checks, mostly because I do them more, the hubby still has a hard time when he's on duty (weekends). He is so disoriented at that time of night.  Funniest example yet is when his alarm sounded early last Saturday morning, he turned it off, but "it" kept beeping. After cursing at it, banging on it, ripping the cord from this seemingly possessed beast out of the wall, he realized it was his phone that was beeping because he had also set it to make sure he woke up. We laughed about that the next day. 

K is at a playdate right now with a friend of mine and her 2.5 year old. This friend picked her up from pre school along with her daughter, took K home, checked her, and then, over the phone, I walked her through dosing K for the lunch that I had packed her. I haven't heard from her again, so I'm assuming K ate the lunch we dosed her for - hallelujah! I am near tears (of joy) that she is at someone else's house, having a "normal" playdate. This is the first time since she's been diagnosed that a play date away from me hasn't been coordinated around a meal. For example, I've dropped her off after breakfast and before lunch for a couple hours at the most. This time, she's eating a meal :)