It was an illness. Trey came down with a cold last Thursday which would explain his high sugar numbers that didn't want to come down no matter what I tried. I remember someone in the hospital telling us that we will probably know he is fighting something before he shows symptoms as the blood sugars will rise. Indeed!
After being up a lot Thursday night checking blood sugar and ketones in urine and giving extra insulin to help 1) sugars come down and 2) keep the ketones away, I caved and gave him cold medicine Friday. I recall I did this one other time since his diaganoses and it spiked his sugars pretty good. When we talked with the doc regarding what medicines to use, he said to use whatever we have. Just because he is diabetic, he doens't have to use Sugar Free medicine. Sugar Free medicine is hard to find and frankly, it doesn't work as well. The small spike from medicine isn't enough to do damage and it won't keep sugar levels elevated for very long. 45 minutes after I gave him the medicine, his sugar was almost 400. I did call the school and give them the heads up that he would be coming into the office shortly with high BS and the reason was because of the medicine. I asked the secretary to tell him to drink his water bottle and go back to class ... He would be fine. After just 15 minutes of being spiked, he started coming down really fast - Thankfully.
If you follow me on Facebook, you already know, but my amazing son gave himself his own shot for the first time on Saturday. I didn't ask him to, he just did it. It was truly a proud moment for both him and I. I was a little worried because he dialed up the pen to the right number and everything and that can be tricky but he nailed it. We agreed that he can keep doing his own shots, but he has to have an adult make sure he has the right dosage dialed in to avoid a big OOPS. Six months to the day we brought him home from Sioux Falls ... Doing his own shots. Just so proud of him. His teacher and his nurse both tell me how amazed they are at his maturity and how he handles everything. His nurse and him are so close and have a great bond and I can't even express how thankful that makes me. He's in great hands!
I did end up making a Facebook group page for Trey. Instead of posting everything on my own page, Trey has a group page called T1D Trey. It's a closed group so I do have to approve members. I don't want a bunch of crazies I don't know looking at my life. I also realize some people are annoyed with all my posts about Diabetes. Know what I say to those people?? Unfriend me. Not just on Facebook but in real life too. I don't need people like that in my life and neither does my family. We need support and help and prayers. To those of you who are always giving me encouraging words - I tear up every single time. When I think I'm failing at this job called MOTHER, your words touch me and I thank you. I don't have all the answers, I'm not the perfect mom, I'm not an expert on diabetes, but I can promise I try my hardest every single day to do the right thing for Trey. (And Lanie but that kid is a piece of cake now! Except that attitude she got from her grandma Lori!)
So Thank You -- truly. With YOU allowing me to educate you on T1D, I know someday you will pass on the information you've learned to help raise awareness. I'm going to try to get a 5K or a walk put together next spring with the money going to JDRF to help with the research on the artificial pancreas. If anyone knows how I go about this ... I'd GLADLY accept the help!
LOVE YOU ALL!
