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Permalink Reply by StacyMitchL on May 21, 2011 at 5:55am

Update - His waking bg was 256. In hindsight, I now know I should have corrected. Lesson learned. I loathe that my kid was the experiment.

Permalink Reply by JensenClan on May 21, 2011 at 1:36pm

I'm glad that things ended up okay Stacy! I know that I've had several sleepless nights with my daughter in bed next to me, as I've wondered what is going on in her blood. It's SOOOO enough to make you go crazy. I love reading your dialogue with Lorraine, and want to know what dsma stands for?

Last word though, you're an awesome Mom. keep up the vigilance!

Permalink Reply by StacyMitchL on May 23, 2011 at 5:47am

DSMA is Diabetes Social Media Advocacy They are on twitter and have a call in show. Lo was a guest speaker this past Thursday and was fabulous!! Very informative and personable. Here is the link if you'd like to check it out:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/diabetessocmed/2011/05/20/dsma-live

and on twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/DiabetesSocMed

Im also on there as YankeBell

=)

Permalink Reply by Celeste on May 22, 2011 at 8:02pm

Ok - he is higher than you want but he is 150 points lower than at 2 am - so if you gave a full correction at 2 - he would have been dangerously low now. So I would not beat yourself up about it.

Good luck - hopefully these lows will ease up soon!

Celeste

Permalink Reply by Aimee on May 24, 2011 at 9:30pm

I hate to say it, but our diabetic children are all experiments. We have been dealing with diabetes for over 3 years now and still have those times that we say 'we should have done something different' and then there are times where we do exactly the same things we have done many other times and end up with a different outcome. I have learned to detach a little more and even though I still worry, I do not beat myself up too much. I hope you can get to a point where you don't beat yourself up over it, because you are doing the best you can. I agree with the annoying grayness of the disease. Taking care of diabetes is an art, not a science, and unfortunately I have a scientific mind! : )
Best of luck!

Permalink Reply by Lorraine on May 21, 2011 at 5:59am

It's unfortunately a continuous experiment. But with each experience you will be able to learn something from it for the next time. Was last night the Mexican night (saw the pic)? You may have calculated carbs well, but there was a delayed reaction. Restaurant food (it looked like you were out) can have high fat content which delays it's release to the bloodstream. That may be what you saw last night.

Permalink Reply by StacyMitchL on May 21, 2011 at 6:11am

Yes, last night was mexican. That totally makes sense then!! He ate his weight in rice and tortilla chips. I thought I did a good job in counting chips and rice amount, but of course there was no precise serving amount or carb info.

I guess this is an example of your pasta night?

Im going to be completely gray haired much sooner than I had hoped. =P

Permalink Reply by Lorraine on May 21, 2011 at 6:45am

Um yeah. My first grays sprouted about a year after dx, but I still only have a few.

For whatever reason anything served in a restaurant follows different carb counting rules. I think Caleb could eat a head of lettuce in a restaurant and still go Hugh. :)

The other thing I sometimes find with Caleb is that when he eats a lot - significantly more than usually - that seems to have a delayed impact too, like his body simply cannot process everything at once.

This is still very new Stacy and remember on dsma when we talked about hindsight? This is a perfect example. Sometimes you just don't know what to expect even with the best of preparations.

File this little nugget away and see what happens next time. You may see a pattern and decide that maybe half a normal correction would be appropriate.

But to answer your question, I think you did what you should have done. I don't think it was worth the risk of a low to experiment with a correction last night.

Permalink Reply by StacyMitchL on May 21, 2011 at 7:41am

Yes - hindsight is 20/20! LOL If only I had a crystal ball. =)

I understand now what is meant by food trending. I would never have thought about the food possibly being the culprit too.

Thank you Thank you!

Permalink Reply by Lorraine on May 21, 2011 at 8:17am

Oh and yes - this could be like the pasta night video. But don't forget the phase of the moon!

Permalink Reply by sarhow on May 21, 2011 at 8:29am

You can't get upset over every high or low, you just have to accept that it will happen, no matter what. I find that when people hear that my son is high/low/whatever for one particular check that they happen to witness, they get all worried about it... you just can't let it worry you that much or you will have too much stress. Managing blood sugar is an art more than a science sometimes. I don't know how old your son is, but when my son was diagnosed at age 1, the nurse said, "just keep him conscious." Well he's 6 now and still conscious, thankfully. I don't know how, we just take it one day at a time. All of it is trial and error, with a lot of errors-- every error gives you an opportunity to learn something. If you think of it that way-- what can I learn from this? OK, Mexican/restaurant food has a delayed rise... I can correct when he's 400 in the middle of the night... then that's progress. Eventually it will become more routine, and then just when you think you've got the hang of it, there will be something new to deal with... but it will get easier in any case. good luck!

Permalink Reply by Natalie on May 21, 2011 at 11:39am

I agree that there is too much "gray" with diabetes. I know the frustration of thinking you are doing exactly what you are supposed to do and the outcome isn't what would be expected.

Our son was diagnosed at 1 also and I remember the same advise, sarhow! So much trial and error.

I stil get frustrated with the delayed highs. I think it really helps to keep a food journal, something I need to get back in habit of doing. Especially if there are foods we don't eat on a daily basis. I forget what we did, if we did a dual wave bolus and for how much and how long. One food we always struggle with is pizza, even making it at home so we can more accurately calculate everything. But now he doesn't even really want to eat it.

Things will take time to fall into place but gradually it does. But it is important to remember that sometimes highs and lows may happen for reasons you are not sure of, but knowing how to identify the symptoms of them happening and making the corrections is key.

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