It’s been a while since I have posted. Life is just so darn busy, but I thought I would share our experience with our first cold after getting diabetes.

It was an interesting time. My daughter’s blood sugar was never out of control, however it remained on the high side. We treating her fever with Tylenol so she was getting some sugar there, but overall her carb intake was pretty low. She was not hungry all that often. We tested often since she was not eating, but her numbers were consistently in the 120 to 160 range.

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We have had some interesting numbers lately. My daughter’s blood sugars have been pretty good, but we have backed way off on the insulin. I find that interesting. Our breakfast carb ratio is 15. At lunch we are using 30. Dinner we are not using any insulin to compensate for her meals. We are only correcting if she is high before dinner. We are down to 2 units of Levemir. So a pretty low amount of insulin overall.

We believe she is still honeymooning so these numbers make sense. The lower we go on insulin the more I think it’s kind of a cruel joke. Could we not need to use insulin in the future? My daughter has type I Diabetes so I know the answer is no she will always need insulin, but emotionally I can’t help to think about an insulin free child.

We have stopped giving dinner time insulin. We will still give a correction dose when we test, but we are not compensating for our meal any longer. Now if my daughter has a high carb dinner we might adjust but for now no shot.

We are doing this because her nighttime numbers have been too low. We are trying to keep her numbers around 100 at bedtime. It has been three days now and it it’s working pretty well. My daughter has been going to bed at around 150-170 and waking up around 90-110.

This will all end when she is out of the honeymoon phase, but for now it’s nice to skip a shot.

So what are your Easter ideas for Diabetics? We had a cool one this year. (Actually my MIL did). This was our first Easter with Diabetes and for us Easter is always about candy. We talked to our daughter about Easter, candy, and being a Diabetic. She understood that while she could eat whatever she wanted she could not just munch on candy when she wanted during the day. She knew she either received an extra shot or needed to wait until meal time. Who wants extra shots or to wait to eat some jelly beans? No me. Along come a great idea by my MIL. An idea my daughter loved and was actually very excited about.
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This weekend was our first sleepover since being diagnosed with Diabetes. We have been reluctant up until now, but gave in this weekend. My daughter is mature for her age and handles everything very well, but she is not ready to fly solo.

My daughter had a friend over for several hours so most of the time was spent at our house. We allowed my daughter to spend the night at the friend’s house but they did not go there until bedtime. The friend’s house is 4 houses away from ours. We did the nighttime insulin and my daughter took her reading the morning and called us. We sent breakfast so we knew how many carbs she was eating and we went to the friend’s house to give her mealtime shot.

I am not sure if we are being too protective or not protective enough, but that is how we handled it. I know I am not ready for her to be gone for hours and then spent the night at a friend’s house. I need a little more control than that.

Our blood sugar numbers are getting better the more we reduce the amount of levemir we give.  We are still experiencing lower that desired numbers, but they are headed in the right direction.  We are now only giving 3 units of levemir at night.   I am happy to not see my daughters number in the 50’s and 60’s any longer.

Today we got in trouble. Okay well not really but I felt bad at our Endocrinology appointment this morning. Dr. P told us our lows need to be dealt with right away. We should be adjusting our Levemir as soon as we see lows. There is no need to wait for a trend. I have posted a few times about our low blood sugar levels. We compensate from them immediately, but we are not doing enough.

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We are still having a tough time with the evening lows.  We notice on days where she is very active her reading at bedtime is low.  Yesterday we modified our carb to insulin ratio.  Instead of the normal 15:1 we are doing 18:1.  We will see how that goes.

I had mentioned earlier that I was ordering the cable and software for our OneTouch Ultra 2 Blood Glucose Monitoring System.  The cable and software arrive yesterday.  I set up everything and it went smoothly.

While the setup was easy and everything worked as designed I must say the software stinks.  It looks like it was built for Windows 95 and never updated.  I was able to download our meter data quickly and easily.  When imported the data I noticed there was no way to edit the data.  That makes the software unusable.  Yesterday we let a couple of grandparents test their blood sugar levels to see what it was like.  I need to delete that data so it does not interfere with Madison’s numbers.  There is no way to do that.  I also want to move some readings around.  Sometime it put something in the dinner category when it should have been bedtimes reading.  Again no way to adjust that.

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Some insulin shots sting and I am not really sure why.   Madison has complained that some shots sting.  It’s not the needle itself that hurts, it’s the insulin itself.  I have read about not injecting insulin from the refrigerator, but that’s not it.  We don’t refrigerate our open insulin.  The investigation continues.