Sh*t.

I officially screwed up for the first time tonight.

We had dinner at Claim Jumper and Adam had some pizza, and I dosed him for it. Then, he was still hungry, so I let him have some more. He wanted a cupcake and since it had been some time since he'd eaten the extra pizza, I decided to dose him for the pizza AND the cupcake he hadn't eaten yet.

Now I know why you don't dose preschoolers before eating.

I mean seriously, who's not going to eat a chocolate cupcake? Not my Adam, the little sweet-a-holic that he is.

But as 4 year-olds are often wont to do...he changed his mind. And refused to eat it.

So I had him eat a fruit snack and some smarties to compensate and when we got home 45 minutes later I tested him.

56.

Okay, drink juice!

15 minutes later,

56 again.

Now I'm begging and pleading for Adam to eat some glucose tabs. Which he is refusing to do.

I get him to drink some orange juice

I test him again...ERROR!

I test him again...486!!!

Yeah, I said WTF too.

I tossed aside the One Touch and got out the Aviva meter and tested him AGAIN.

80.

Whew.

He refused to eat anything else, but sissy got him to suck on a lollipop while we read him books before bed.

I will be testing a lot tonight....

Lesson learned.

The 3 D's

Diabetes, Depressed and it's that time of Da month.

Enough said?

Seriously, though, I have lots of things that I'd like to post, but I've been feeling kind of blah. Okay, not kind of...really blah. I covet my bed and I wish I could retreat to the cool darkness of my room during the day.

And really, Arizona? 105 degrees still? Give this mama a break.

I'm waiting for a call back from the endo again - Adam's been bottoming out after breakfast...this morning an hour and a half after his insulin, he was at 55. Gah. If I don't get a call back today, I'm adjusting his dose myself.

Giveaways!

After only blogging for a few weeks, I've been the lucky winner of TWO giveaways! Crazy, I tell you, since I've never won anything in my life. I guess I'm lucky in T1D-land. :)

First up, I won this super-cool bracelet for Adam from the amazing Heidi over at D-Tales.

And then Meri at Our Diabetic Life was giving away TWO amazing prize packages - Contigo cups, a Medic Alert gift certificate AND a Spibelt! And I was a lucky winner yet again!

Thanks, ladies!!

So...you want to be a winner too? Then it's YOUR lucky day! Run on over and visit Hallie and her super-cute daughter, Sweetpea at The Princess and the Pump for another amazing giveaway!

The power of a great friend.

One of the things that I have missed the most over the last few weeks is being able to drop Adam off with one of his friends so he can play and I can, um, get some stuff done! Over the last few years, my friends and I have had a great system going where we all get "mama" time and our kids get to play together. It's been my saving grace as a SAHM.

I wanted to write about a great friend today. I can't even call her just great - she is amazing. She has been a rock for me over the last 6 years we have known each other, and when Adam was diagnosed with T1D, she was right there, front and center, telling me that everything was going to be okay.

We've all had friends who don't know what to say...or what to do when our child is diagnosed with a chronic disease. Some are scared, some don't understand, some just brush it under the rug and ask, "why are you so tired all the time?"

But this friend was supportive in the exact way I needed, although I didn't realize it until this morning. She was never scared of diabetes. She never freaked out at the idea of needles. She jumped in right away and said, "Teach me. Show me. Let me help you." That is what this mama needed.

And over the last 3 weeks, I knew she wasn't just "saying" it. Because she kept asking me, "Are you ready for me to have Adam over yet?"

This morning I was ready.

I dropped him off at preschool and handed her the diabetes bag. She's already been over and checked blood sugars on herself and Adam, so I know she can do it. She knows what to do if he's low or high. And, I am, of course, just a phone call away.

Over the next few weeks and months, I will show her how to calculate insulin. I know she'll be able to do it - because she showed me that she's not scared of it all. That is invaluable to me. Even if she's nervous on the inside, I know Adam trusts her implicitly (as do I) and it will all be fine.

And I think I'm going to go have a good cry right now, because of how blessed I am to have this person in my life.

Hit the Diabetes Jackpot

Our $200 box-o-fun arrived today - a three month supply of diabetes paraphernalia. The Costco-loving side of my personality loves the fact that I've got boxes and boxes of supplies. It's amazing to me that this will likely only last 3 months.

Thank you

Thank you all for your advice last night. I forced some juice down him, but he really didn't want to wake up to drink it. I think I got about 2 oz. down him, which brought him up to 90. He woke up this morning at 102.

I put in a call to our endo and he had us change his ratios back to 3 units of Levemir and then change the Novolog ratios to 1:25 for breakfast and 1:30 the rest of the day. Which is what we were at 2 weeks ago...so I guess I'm finally catching onto the fact that T1 Diabetes is like a mood ring...you just never know what kind of reaction you are going to be dealing with!

Another question for you experienced gals - what type of log/logbook do you use? Do you keep it on the computer? Paper? Steel-trap memory? I'm struggling to find the easiest way to log this information. Do you log food as well as numbers?

Battling lows...

Let me preface that I will be calling our endo in the morning, but I thought I'd pose the question here since I'm wide awake, and judging by today's numbers, I will be for quite awhile.

We made quite a few changes in Adam's insulin during the first few weeks, and for this past week, we've ended up on a carb ratio of 1:15 for breakfast and 1:25 the rest of the day, then 4 units of Levemir in the evening. That has worked well for this week - his numbers have been great - no huge highs and no low lows.

Yesterday was the first day we've battled lows. Granted, he had his flag football game in the morning, and it felt like we were chasing his sugars all day long after that to keep them up.

Today, he started out with a blood sugar of 118, had a good breakfast and my husband gave him 4.5 units of Novolog.

And that's the last Novolog we've given him today. I checked him around 10ish and was shocked to see 53 flash back at me, so I gave him some juice and he popped back up.

He's been grazing all day...not really eating much, but I had to keep giving him some snacks to keep that blood sugar up. He didn't eat dinner, but we still gave him his nighttime Levemir. Was that a mistake? Is this that "honeymooning" I keep hearing about?

I just checked him and he was 63 at 10pm. I'm going to check him again in about a half an hour and see if I need to give him some juice or something. I'm nervous.