Thursday, January 27, 2011

In the span of an hour, a "high" and a LOW

Diabetes is humbling.

Extremely humbling. I'm not sure when I'll realize that.

I've been seeing a lot of beautiful Dexcom lines....lovely lines, swaying perfectly between high and low.

Since Apidra, we've seen A LOT more of these gorgeous (only to D-moms!) lines.

Take today, for example. We had a beautiful afternoon at the park with good friends. Adam was running like crazy, and I avoided a low by checking Dex and seeing he was 101 with double arrows down. A couple of glucose tabs later and he was sitting pretty at 110 15 minutes later.

I was feeling pretty darn good about myself. I bolused him correctly for dinner, even though he changed his mind on what he ate at the last minute. **pats self on back**

Bedtime...his Dexcom shows a steady 150. Finger check shows 142.

"I rock," I think to myself. "I'm going to take a picture later of his Dex just so I can show everyone how awesome I am as a mama pancreas." (Did anyone guess that I was about to eat a slice of humble pie?)

I just went upstairs 10 minutes ago to grab the Dex so I could take a picture of my achievement for the day.

And then I'm stunned. And sad. I feel like I want to cry. And then I thank God that his liver kicked in when it needed to, because I didn't hear the alarms.

This is what I saw:


A closer look? What happened in the last hour?


My boy went low, and I had no idea. I was downstairs and didn't hear the alarm. Didn't know that his liver was possibly saving his life by pushing out extra glucose to cover his busy day.

I'm getting a baby monitor ASAP. And never again assuming that I've got this diabetes thing figured out.

7 comments:

  1. I'll bring your monitor to you tomorrow a.m. Hugs, Heath.

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  2. You ARE awesome!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats on that awesome run of numbers.

    As for the low...well...PRAISE GOD FOR THE LIVER!

    You're doing great. NEVER forget that!

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  3. Isn't it amazing all that you "see" with a cgm....kinda scary all we miss without it. glad all is ok.

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  4. You're doing great! God is watching over our precious little angels!

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  5. We are going in for our CGM trial next month..I am curious what we will see! Hooray for the liver! BTW - doesn't it seem like these things always happen when you are feeling a little extra confident in your pancreatic skills?! I know it is that way for me!

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  6. We've got our baby monitor on, too. In addition to other children sleeping in the same room that can hear it and wake us up. Isn't it great to have a Dexcom! I love that it is one more eye on my son.

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  7. ::Hugs:: We don't have a CGM and I wonder how many times that's happened and we just don't know it. I'd rather not think about it.

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