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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The world according to the little guy
I am SUPER tired. This pump is making me crazy. We have been up many nights now with a couple of lows and a LOT of really high highs...to do BG checks (finger pokes), checking to make sure the site is working, checking ketones (peeing on a stick), etc. I've only gotten a few hours sleep over the past few days. Instead of taking a nap yesterday, which I really should have done, I was dying to watch my all time favorite movie "Pride and Prejudice"...the REAL one (the real long one!) I started downstairs toward the TV telling Isaac that I was going to veg for a little while and he replied with..."You can't just sit in front of the TV all the time, you will get really fat!" I'll take that as a compliment and pretend he was saying that I am not already fat! If any of you know me, I rarely GET to sit in front of the TV. He's so funny and I loved my movie but am really hoping I get to sleep some tonight.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
WE'RE PUMPERS!
Isaac was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes November 17, 2009. I always get so emotional thinking about that time. I've said here many times how frustrating Diabetes is. He has received at least 2,920 shots of insulin since that moment two years ago. He has been amazing with it all! We were very excited yesterday to go and hook Isaac up to his new pump. Here he is before leaving to get hooked up...LAST SHOT!
I think Isaac was a little wigged out to have this thing in him all the time but it's getting better and he is getting used to it. This should make things a little easier! We did 5 hours of training with out healthcare team and a few on our own. We have struggled with high numbers while we work out his doses of insulin and this new meter is reading a lot higher than our old one so I'm having trouble trusting it. We have to test blood sugars at least 9 times a day for a couple of weeks including a 12am and a 3am. It is very nice to just punch in a few numbers and it delivers the insulin with no poking and does a lot of the math for you! We'll still have to do shots once in a while and of course change the set every couple of days but I think Isaac is going to like this!
Isaac also started tennis lessons yesterday and had a lot of fun with that.
I think Isaac was a little wigged out to have this thing in him all the time but it's getting better and he is getting used to it. This should make things a little easier! We did 5 hours of training with out healthcare team and a few on our own. We have struggled with high numbers while we work out his doses of insulin and this new meter is reading a lot higher than our old one so I'm having trouble trusting it. We have to test blood sugars at least 9 times a day for a couple of weeks including a 12am and a 3am. It is very nice to just punch in a few numbers and it delivers the insulin with no poking and does a lot of the math for you! We'll still have to do shots once in a while and of course change the set every couple of days but I think Isaac is going to like this!
Isaac also started tennis lessons yesterday and had a lot of fun with that.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Halloween
We began our Halloween festivities on Saturday morning at the Home Depot. Matthew was at another scout campout with Dad so he wasn't there but the other two lego men won best costume out of all 7 contestants. Yes, I moved our lego men and reused them. They all still fit and they were too much work to throw away. All the boys fought me but they were getting used! Isaac was disappointed that he couldn't be a lego man. One day he wanted to be a fireman, then a bear, then some other animal, then a dispatcher (I had no idea what a dispatcher would look like!), then Billy Blazes from Rescue Heroes. He was finally just a fireman.
Saturday night we had our Trunk or Treat at the church along with soup, chili and hotdogs, bouncy houses and games. Josh helped run the doughnut game. Isaac cried because someone gave him a Butterfinger and he was trying to tell them that he couldn't have it but they didn't understand.
Monday we trick or treated around our neighborhood. Isaac and Matthew lasted about 20 houses. Josh and Noah made it around just about the whole neighborhood. Isaac was super paranoid about all the peanuts he was seeing. Every house seemed to put a bowl of peanut M&Ms and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups out and said take a couple. Isaac would just stare at them and then look at me. I would encourage him to just take something because I sure wanted some! He refused. He made some people feel bad and they wanted to go get him some money or something else. I assured them that he was just fine.
When we got home they were ordered to bed by one tired Dad. I thought that was unfair because when I was a kid that was the best part of Halloween. Emptying your bag and spreading your goods all over the floor, surveying your stash...that's the reward for all your work! But alas, they had school the next morning and they can't eat most of it anyway. They went to bed and I began the sorting. Matthew...no fat! He was left with little candy. Isaac...no peanuts! He was left with even less candy than Matthew...which is good for the diabetes I guess. Joshua and Noah did well! I take out all of the chocolates with actual peanuts or peanut butter and put those in a seperate bowl. Mike and I feast on them at night when the kids are safely in bed. Or, Joshua and Noah can take one to school with their lunch. Joshua's principle has bribed them with a school "buck" if they make their candy last until Christmas break. (Not sure I would believe any middle schooler that came to me at break and said they still had Halloween candy.)
I'm thinking this was probably Joshua's last year being young and going trick or treating. Sad!
Saturday night we had our Trunk or Treat at the church along with soup, chili and hotdogs, bouncy houses and games. Josh helped run the doughnut game. Isaac cried because someone gave him a Butterfinger and he was trying to tell them that he couldn't have it but they didn't understand.
Monday we trick or treated around our neighborhood. Isaac and Matthew lasted about 20 houses. Josh and Noah made it around just about the whole neighborhood. Isaac was super paranoid about all the peanuts he was seeing. Every house seemed to put a bowl of peanut M&Ms and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups out and said take a couple. Isaac would just stare at them and then look at me. I would encourage him to just take something because I sure wanted some! He refused. He made some people feel bad and they wanted to go get him some money or something else. I assured them that he was just fine.
When we got home they were ordered to bed by one tired Dad. I thought that was unfair because when I was a kid that was the best part of Halloween. Emptying your bag and spreading your goods all over the floor, surveying your stash...that's the reward for all your work! But alas, they had school the next morning and they can't eat most of it anyway. They went to bed and I began the sorting. Matthew...no fat! He was left with little candy. Isaac...no peanuts! He was left with even less candy than Matthew...which is good for the diabetes I guess. Joshua and Noah did well! I take out all of the chocolates with actual peanuts or peanut butter and put those in a seperate bowl. Mike and I feast on them at night when the kids are safely in bed. Or, Joshua and Noah can take one to school with their lunch. Joshua's principle has bribed them with a school "buck" if they make their candy last until Christmas break. (Not sure I would believe any middle schooler that came to me at break and said they still had Halloween candy.)
I'm thinking this was probably Joshua's last year being young and going trick or treating. Sad!
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