Battle of the High BG

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Tim
     There I was, doing the 2am BG check, younger d-daughter was real high, “darn” I thought to my self, correct or wait a couple of hours. She had be dropping too far at night when we corrected, so I waited. She was trending down nicely according to CGM a couple of hours later. But by mid morning she was heading back up.     By lunch she had stabilized again close enough to range the correction in the dose was not that much. After lunch a few hours she was trending up like the space shuttle and no explanation why. She was not sick, her site looked good, her meals were not high carb and high fat. I had to go outside to finish some work, after finishing I came back inside. My wife told me she had ketones and the meter said high. Something was not right.

My wife and I debated on what to do, correction dose was next, but I wanted to use a syringe, being suspicious of the site. We opted for the needle, a full unit for the correction dose was given. We gave her a big bottle of water to drink to flush the ketones from her system.

About and hour and fifteen minutes later she had dropped from 600 plus to 90 or so, that could have not felt very good. Strange thing is, she never acted sick, lethargic or tired. She was fine, looked normal. I wonder how many families see children with diabetes and wonder what the “fuss is about”. I guess those people, who seem to be too numerous, should take a walk in someone else’s shoes for a while. I try to do that when interacting with people, its called compassion and empathy.

There was a guy a couple of thousand years ago that did the same thing, he said something to the like “treat others the way you want to be treated”. But then again at church I have to interact with some people who claim to be His followers and I hear the whispers about my kids and my cause. My guess is that He hears that too, so I don’t worry. Hypocrites are everywhere, I need only to worry about me so I’m compassionate, understanding and live by what I say.

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No sleep for you!

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Tim

I can just image the “Soup Nazi” morphing into the “Diabetes Nazi” and saying “no sleep for you”. My response would be “oh thanks, I’ve heard that one before”. Did I ever tell you that diabetes really sucks. It really really sucks when you have 2 little girls with non-functioning pancreases due to an autoimmune disease. It really suck because you get less sleep, among other things.

Last night before my wife and I went to bed, I grabbed the meters and went up stairs to do BG checks before we went to bed (11pm). My wife was asleep on the couch, so I got the checks out of the way so we could attempt a good nights sleep. It was not bad, Dkid 1 was 138 and dexi was steady and Dkid 2 was 301 but trending down. Cool, I’ll take that, my wife would correct at 2am if 301 had not dropped. But 45 minutes later, bam, dexi alarmed. I got out of bed and my older D-daughter was on her way down stairs.

I checked Dexi and 53 arrow angle down, finger poke was 59. “Dang”, I thought, “here are 3 glucose tabs for you, don’t use left hand to pick them up, I cleaned that one already”, I told her. Now it was after midnight, and I was a bit angry. I had her lay on couch with a blanket until she came back up. 20 minutes later she was heading back up, 120ish BG. So she went back to bed with a hug and kiss from me.

Then my wife did the 2am checks and D-kid 2 was low, 114 arrows straight down (301 at 11pm). To top it off Dkid 1 was dropping again. Diabetes sucks, it really does. My wife gets so little sleep, I hardly sleep the night through. We fight through it, we have 2. If we would have not done the BG checks it could have turned out bad. Again I tell you Diabetes Sucks.

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