It's Diabetes Awareness Month. There's no better day to blog than the day after the Night of Extreme Lows. 2 or 3 juice boxes in, a kid who overslept (this is the kid who always wakes up by 7 and was still asleep by 7:30 and finally rolled out of bed at 7:40) and didn't want to eat breakfast or go to school. Somehow he still made it on time. I feel horrible for him.



Also, keep our insurance company in your thoughts.. we're trying to get a Dexcom Continuous Glucose Monitor approved and they keep denying it. So, if they don't approve it soon, I'm going to be forced to go all D Momma on them.

If you can figure out where this quote is from, you just answered the question "Where are we going?" tomorrow (see what I did there, we're going tomorrow and Mr Tom Morrow... Ahem, moving on). And actually, tomorrow we're just going to my parent's house to spend the night to leave on Monday morning, then we still won't be hitting there, we're heading to the beach first. THEN a week from Tom-Morrow we'll hit there. So, guesses? :D


What does a diabetic pack on vacation? Juice. Lots of test strips and a bathing suit or two. Extra insulin.

Oh, and probably more juice. 

Pump class!

So, at Ollie's initial Endo visit last year, they told me they wanted kids to be 8 before they got an insulin pump... So I begrudgingly waited. However, last week I was reading about kids of all ages on pumps and Endo's telling parents they had to only wait 6 months to a year. Saturday, Ollie was starving all day (I'm assuming a growth spurt) and had NINE shots. I talked to him about a pump and decided to call the Endo and insurance company and see what we could do. I also got the number of another pediatric endocrinologist just in case ours made me mad. Poor Doug called our insurance company and got a giant run around and no real answers to our questions. I called the Endo's office and left a message. Of course I was at clinicals and missed the call, but when I called them back they just said "ok, our next class is in September, we don't run them over te summer. We can sign you up for that one if you'd like"... I was honestly shocked I got no resistance from them. They also said they'd help us with the insurance company. I'm excited for our next chapter! Ollie's already decided he wants a green pump....

So the other day Olliver (who is very interested in science right now) told me he wanted to make potions. I said that was a cool idea and he said "Maybe I can make one so my blood sugar is always normal". Cue feeling horrible for him.

On another note, I always hate it when grown people are afraid of needles and shots and my poor child gets at least 4 shots a day and says "Oh it doesn't hurt!".

Bah. I will reiterate my motto that T1D is an asshole.

I feel like I should write something epic.. since it's been MONTHS since an update (I warned you I was horrible at updating these in the beginning..). So, here.

Christmas Eve.

Great Wolf Lodge on his D-iaversary.

Getting his white belt!

Easter!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, not epic. Sorry. But it does kind of catch you up.