Dance my pretty

Something about the way K flowed about in her beautiful "Shabbat dress" tonight made me think of this great pic from Sept, 2009, when she was not even three years old. Like looking at most of her pre-diabetes photos, it makes us a little sad though.  

So excuse me while I send my thoughts out rather stream of consciousness via this blog tonight. I'm the only adult home (Marc's hanging with old friends), so I need somewhere to process this. We had a lovely potluck dinner among friends and acquaintances, and Israeli dancing too. K's blood sugar was a delightful 77 a good half hour before dinner. I let her have about an ounce (or less) of typically verboten juice right as dinner began. Dosed her for 40 carbs as a "50-50 combo bolus" - being she got 50% of the dosage up front and the remainder was to be dripped in over the next 2.5 hours. The combo works well when she under-eats because we can cancel the insulin, rather than force her to eat the equivalent carbs for which she was dosed (that was our life with injections) --AND the combo works well for tricky, slower digested foods, like bread and pizza - of which there was both at this dinner. 

So, she ate challah (how much, I don't even know), 2 itty bitty slices of pizza (worth what? - dunno, 20 g??), fruit (maybe 6 g worth??), tried mac and cheese that she didn't like - and then danced like a machine with her "boyfriend". Oh, then out came the dessert and thankfully she chose the individually packed ice cream, which had nutrition label - mango flavor. I'm thinking "awesome" - but it was 34 freaking carbs! So, I gave her more insulin - to cover 20 g. Too much? too little? I dunno...

So, once K goes to bed, she pulled the too frequently chanted at this time of night, "My tummy hurts!" (This is delay tactic #3, behind "I need fresh water" and "Please sing another song".) So I checked her BG (around 8:30) and she was 94. Nice, I think, but there's still a lot more insulin "on board"  --ie in her system. I tell her she's not low and kiss her goodnight, again. About an hour later, I checked her again and she went down to 83. That's not too low, but will she keep going down? - or will she go high? - with that pizza and bread finally rearing their ugly carb heads - plus she tends to go up this time of night anyhow. I'm keeping this blog post open and will update it with the next BG check.

10:33: nice, she's back up to 92. Doubt she'll go down now :) --now, let's hope she doesn't go too high!

Will hitting "publish" on this blog jinx me?