So K ran very high after dinner (in part because her infusion set came out at some point and we hadn't realized it; in other part - who the hell knows) and had come down we checked her at 11:30, but still too high to be comfortable letting her go through rest of night without being checked. I set my alarm for 3AM, as one of us does most nights. When the alarm goes off, I have to get out of bed to turn it off (learned that lesson after too many skipped checks), so by the time I'm out of bed, I know that I need to go check our daughter's BG. We're like robots when we do this - it's all so routine and we hardly wake up during it. However, when I checked K and her BG was 52 mg/dl - I was suddenly wide awake! I let her finish off an opened juice box (guessing about 9g of carb) and gave her a 4g glucose pill. Walked back to bed, fell asleep until alarm woke me up 15 minutes later to recheck. Up to 107 mg/dl. Good! Back to sleep so quickly that when my alarm went off at 6AM I forgot I had checked her that second time. Yawn.
There's always some diabetes related event going on here. I'm usually too busy to write about it. On the good news front, our Walk for a Cure team raised over $12,200 for JDRF.
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