Last night, K's BG was great a little after 11: 98 mg/dl. We felt that we could let her go through the rest of the night without checking her, but just after 1 AM, I woke up to, "My tummy hurts!" from her room. I zipped into her room, checked her BG and she was low (she's never wrong if it wakes her up in the middle of the night :( ). I gave her almost half a juice box (about 7 g of carb) --and promised her she'd feel better in just a few minutes. Just over 10 minutes later, right as I was drifting back to sleep, I heard her yell, "YOU LIED TO ME!" (we've learned that one is not prone to good manners when enduring low blood sugars, especially during the night) I hustled back to her and she said her tummy still hurts. I checked her again and her BG went DOWN(!) to 53 mg/dl. Next quick sugar source, 1.5 glucose pills, popped into her mouth and she's content.
Rest of the night was seamless and K's BG was good when she woke up a little after 7.
(I won't bore you with the never ending "why?" we contemplate regarding her low BG. For the previous two nights, she'd been running high. And she had pizza for dinner?? - which normally stays in one's system for a while [we know of a family that does a 12 hour combo-bolus for pizza])
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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