1. Group Sleepovers: Although it's not super eminent, signs like the one to the left (at K's gymnastics studio) bum me out for my daughter's sake. Although at age six, we likely wouldn't let her stay for a big group sleepover anyhow, I am always concerned about her future. The point is, she could not spend the night at something like this. Who would check her blood sugar during the night? As one mom pointed out to me though, I could. So, though not ideal, we could spend the night at something like this :)
2. Non-carb meals: this family hates non-carb meals. But, we have to do them sometimes because either K's BG is too high to eat carbs anytime soon (which is probably when she hates having diabetes the most) OR as was the case this morning, we need to test why her BG is rising so much consistently at the same time of day. Her BG has been high at her mid-morning check for over a week now (between 200 - 300 mg/dl). So we have to figure out, is it because her breakfast ratio of insulin to carbs needs to be lowered (a lot...)? Or is it because her basal rate (the "background" insulin that is always dripping into her) is too low at that time of day? I lowered the ratio once and not much changed. So, the best way to check this is to serve non-carb breakfast -for all of us, because we try to be fair. Although the kids grumbled at the site of eggs and avocado slices for breakfast, they complained less than they normally do. And the silver lining is that a. we easily determined that her breakfast ratio needs to be lowered because her BG was a fantastic 120 mg/dl this morning at school - enabling her to have a carb snack (which she doesn't get when her BG is over 200 mg/dl at school) - AND b. I got to talk to my favorite CHLA nurse, who only works one day a week (semi-retired) who agree to lower her breakfast carb ratio, just a couple grams at a time, which is what we had already started doing over the weekend. (this ratio is usually the lowest because kids are very insulin resistant in the AM).
3. Forced chaperoning: K's teacher actually did not want chaperones for the class field trip yesterday, except for one - me - and it's not because of my delightful personality or fantastic rapport w/ the children. There was one reason I was strongly encouraged to go - because the district would rather the nurse be at her assigned schools rather than accompanying a class to the local children's museum. This all rubbed me the wrong way, but, in the end, I had a fun, albeit exhausting, excursion with a bus-full of 5-6 year olds. I enjoyed sitting next to K on the bus for her very first field trip and capturing in my heart and with a camera the joy the children had, that no other parent in the class got to experience.
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