tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4454582419936228422024-03-13T00:20:35.385-07:00Forget the chicken nuggets..You can't play on the playground until you eat all your fries!Every day life with a 4 year old with Type 1 Diabetes.AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-23843160309654351612013-10-22T21:31:00.001-07:002013-10-22T21:31:38.559-07:00Our Sweet Shamae...<div style="text-align: center;">
Of course me the master procrastinator would wait all day to finally sit down and write this post in memory of our sweet friend Shamae. This isn't a post I want to be writing. Somehow I feel like if I actually write it, it will be true that she's gone and I don't want her to be gone.</div>
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On May 21st 2009 Alivia was dx with type 1 and I was lost, There was so much traning on how to keep our 2 year old daughter alive during our hospital stay but it was all medical, there was no lesson on how to keep living a "normal" life. I had so many question, I wanted to know how everyone else organized their supplies, I wanted to know how long it would take before I wouldn't have to hold down my daughter both of in tears because she needed a shot of insulin, I wanted to know how to make a freaking batch of cookies when the recipe called for 2 cups of sugar and the bag only showed carbs for a teaspoon, I needed someone who had done this before. Someone that could hold my hand and walk me through my rough patches. Someone that could tell me everything would be ok when I messed up and missed an insulin dose or miscalculated the carbs in dinner. </div>
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One night I needed a break from the hospital, Tony sat with her and for the 1st time in 4 days and I went home to shower and to walk around safeway of course looking at the nutrition facts for every single thing I picked up, I cried that entire shopping trip. I came home and for some reason decided to see what information I could find online. I don't remember exactly what I typed into google but up popped a blog <a href="http://crazy-happy-life.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">"Welcome to our crazy happy life!"</a>. I started reading and I couldn't believe it, her daughters story sounded so much like mine. I left her a quick comment and headed back to the hospital. When we were finally reseased and I got a chance to turn back on my computer I couldn't believe it, not only had she reached out to me she brought along her army of other d-mommas.</div>
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<strong>And there you all were, all because of Shamae!</strong></div>
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I instantly felt welcomed into their special sisterhood, a sisterhood I never would of found if not for Shamae! We were all so close, if we weren't blogging we were calling and chatting, texting, even planning meet ups when we knew we'd be passing through someone's home town or if it was Sunday night we were have one of our late night group chats. Those nights were the best, I loved Sunday nights! Sadly our Sunday night chats will never be the same, they can't be when such an amazing person is missing from it.</div>
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THANK YOU!!!! You were such a great friend! I know 100% that I would not be the person I am today if you wouldn't of reached out to me 4 years ago and pulled me into your circle of other amazing d-mommas!!!!</div>
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AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-14827526886814074942012-04-25T11:33:00.000-07:002012-04-25T11:34:19.975-07:00Feet...<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most peoples feet fall asleep when sitting for a period of time so when Anthony started complaining of it back in kindergarten <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2009)</span> I pretty much blew it off, but put it in the back of my mind. I did however bring it up at his 6 year well child visit at the end of the school year <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2010)</span>. Dr and I both just though it was poor circulation and being that he was born with a heart defect it makes that a more common occurrence. Dr thought it would stop over the summer with the warmer weather and the increased activity... it didn't. I'd look out in the yard and see him sitting in the grass, shoes and socks off and him banging his feet on the ground trying to wake them up. Time passed and his feet falling asleep just became part of our normal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He started 1st grade and circle time on the rug was replaced with more time spent at his desk and he stopped complaining about it, it would still happen at home but it was now completely normal to catch him on the floor slapping and punching his poor little feet, I'd usually sit down next to him and help him rub them until they returned to normal. Our insurance only covers well child visits every 2 years after 6 so his next one wasn't until he turned 8 and I still didn't think poor circulation was cause enough for a sick visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then during 2nd grade <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(2011)</span> it started happening EVERY SINGLE DAY! Each day after school he'd use the restroom and come hopping out with both feet asleep remove his socks and start beating them. I'm sure there has been days for all of us when we've spent more than our fair share on the potty and I don't know about you but my feet don't fall asleep and they surely don't during any regular trip! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As cold and flu season rolled around his pediatrician sent me a notice that it was time for his asthma follow up visit, weird! His asthma has been almost non-existent for years and I've never gotten a notice before so I took it as a sign to make the appt anyways and hopefully run the feet problem by her again. She was stumped, all nerve testing came back normal and his feet were pink and warm to the touch, clearly not poor circulation. She started questioning him about other parts of the body, any pain? I was surprised to hear that his back hurts a lot especially during gym, he's never mentioned it to me before! A light bulb went off for the Dr... she asked to see his back and sure enough she found what she was looking for...a small dimple, a very common sign of <b><a href="http://www.spinabifidaassociation.org/site/c.liKWL7PLLrF/b.2700275/k.5F64/Spina_Bifida_Occulta.htm" target="_blank">Spina bifida occulta</a></b></span><em>.</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She sent us for x-ray which confirmed her </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">suspicions</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This dx is pretty common and is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">considered harmless and is simply a variant of normal </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>vertebral (bone) anatomy, </i>it usually<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">causes no problems that require anything to be done, however numbness in the feet with this dx is not as common and usually only happens when the spinal cord is involved. </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Tethered spinal cord</b>-"The lower end of the cord has an abnormal attachment to surrounding
structures. The spinal cord gets stretched and damaged". </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were then passed on to the children's hospital for an MRI... which came back completely NORMAL! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Our Dr consulted with the pediatric neurosurgeon and she wanted to see him, she's had several cases with normal MRIs where the children still benefited from the tethered cord surgery and all their symptoms were relieved. She's pretty popular I guess because she was booked 6 months out!!! Our time has finally come, our appt is in a few weeks and while surgery (if even needed) isn't ideal I'm hopeful that she has some answers.</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-10173340211687077322011-07-13T13:24:00.000-07:002011-07-13T13:24:15.074-07:00I expected more from you Glucagon...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June 29th I was awoken at 2:30am by Alivia climbing into my bed. I didn't think much of it, she ends up in our bed about once a week. Next thing I knew I heard something that sounded like someone pouring something, still half asleep I wondered if she spilled a cup of water...then I noticed my back felt wet a warm, I rolled to see her throwing up again and again and again. I woke up my husband and he changed the bedding and started the laundry while Liv and I took a quick shower. I set her up on the couch and did a quick sugar and ketone check, 96 and trace ketones. Hubby make a quick trip for some 7up and she was able to keep it all down, I thought for sure it was something she ate. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few hours later she requested breakfast, still a little worried about her tummy but knowing she needed insulin for the ketones I gave her some toast and a banana and only after she kept it down for a while and her blood sugar started rising I bolused her for it. She said she felt good and was up playing and acting normal. Lunch time rolled around and she wanted to eat what everyone else was eating and she did, bolused her for all of it after she was done eating and she was off and running. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An hour and a half later she climbed into my bed and fell asleep...this was very odd for her, she stopped taking naps years ago. Quick sugar check showed her at 57 with over 2 units active insulin still working to bring her sugar down even more, 4oz of 7up sipped slowly, tummy ache and she wanted to lay on the couch and watch iCarly. On her way down the hallway she started throwing up again, I ran to the kitchen to get her "bucket" and she continued to walk down the hallway and into the living room all while still throwing up, leaving a trail behind her. PANIC was starting to set in, I called my husband who just left for work asking for him to return home. I was alone with 6 kids, puke all over my floors which Addy kept trying to get! And a child whose sugar was dropping QUICKLY!!! I hung up with him (he came, cleaned up the mess and left again) and called our endo clinic, I LOVE our team but I HATE the way they take their calls. You call the main number and before you hear any options you have to listen to this message that takes forever! (Or so it feels while you're panicking!!!) "Blah blah blah, we follow the Portland schools, if they are closed so are we, if they have 2 hour late start we will open at 10am, blah blah blah, our fax number is blah blah blah, for scheduling press one, diabetes management press two", I press 2," if your child is newly dx or sick press one", I press 1, "you have reached the priority line please leave your name, number, childs date of birth and 1-3 days of blood sugar number" I try my best to hold back the tears as I leave the details requested and letting them know it is urgent! While on the phone I was collecting the little red box and a few insulin syringes. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Called the clinic again to give them an update and to request a new Rx for zofran, the pharmacy we use is 30 minutes away and <em><strong>does not</strong></em> have a drive through, I wanted it sent to our local pharmacy just down the street that <em><strong>does</strong></em> have a drive though but <em><strong>does not</strong></em> accept our insurance. $75 is a small price to pay to get it now and not have to drag all 6 kids (1 very sick and weak) through Target. The Rx is sent and she advises me to call before I load everyone up.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I call and am told they do not have it in stock but can order it, ummm I need it NOW! She tells me she will call around to the other Walgreen's and see who has it in stock. She calls back letting me know that the closest place is in the same town as the pharmacy we normally use 30 minutes away! Ugh, if i have to drive all the way out there i might as well save my $75 and run into Target, I tell them to never mind. I call Target and ask them to fill the Rx already on hand, I ask if they keep it in stock and told YES! Do they double check? NO! They tell me to give them 45 minutes and it will be ready.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm supposed to have the extra kids overnight so I swing by their house to grab their bag on the way to Target. Alivia has been in and out of it on the short ride to their house so I check her...55! Seriously Glucagon you could of stayed a bit longer!!! I grabbed a 20oz Sprite out of their fridge and passed it to her and placed the "bucket" on her lap, hopeful that even if she did throw up some of the sugar would be absorbed. I called the extra kids Mom on the way to the hospital and had her to meet me along my path to get her kids from me. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The closest hospital is 20 minutes from us but they know NOTHING about children with diabetes, we went there at Dx and they had her transferred to a children's hospital. I chose to skip the middle man and go straight for the children's hospital 45 minutes away, our endo team was there and I felt she would be best cared for there. The drive was stressful, she kept falling asleep and I was worried she might not wake up when we got there and yet I didn't want to pull over... I just wanted to get there. As we pull up to the ER parking I notice that Alivia didn't have shoes!!! How was i supposed to carry Addison and my 60 pound 4 year old?!?! One of the lot attendants came to my rescue and carried Addison for me so I could carry Liv :) We checked in just as the hubby showed up from work and they put us in a room right away. Blood sugar was up to 180 (thank you 20oz soda!) but she still had ketones. Our endo wanted her pump back on but no correction. They loaded her up on the Zofran I hadn't been able to get my hands on all day. The nurse brought her a drink and some jello, if she kept it down she could avoid the IV, if not they'd start one. The snack stayed down and a few hours later she reached the 300's! Tiny correction ordered and they sent us on our way with actual Zofran, not just a slip of paper that said we could have it if anyone ever chose to keep it in stock!! On our way home we stopped by the Target pharmacy to pick up the original Rx that had been waiting for us only to find out they couldn't find the Rx and <span style="font-size: large;">they didn't have it in stock anyways!!!!!! </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bz2ut0-C3rG9dZvJ8ImXPbiW8y3jbjEWO2qnDefo9NuvmvSZeeTysxvJHujbueV_in7RWfMMlDsZSkgsu4PcOexyv31WjHGlcgpj2_ZTnwae7V19BBAfVyGkgVq97Etnkdg88ig45Mb3/s1600/267847_2186087136183_1367169623_2525287_6921453_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-bz2ut0-C3rG9dZvJ8ImXPbiW8y3jbjEWO2qnDefo9NuvmvSZeeTysxvJHujbueV_in7RWfMMlDsZSkgsu4PcOexyv31WjHGlcgpj2_ZTnwae7V19BBAfVyGkgVq97Etnkdg88ig45Mb3/s400/267847_2186087136183_1367169623_2525287_6921453_s.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">They next few days were vomit free but she still had ketones for days and was completely unable to get any insulin other than her basal with out going low for almost a week! But all is back to normal, thank goodness!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm thankful that we made it this long with out this happening but at the same time I think I had the wrong idea about Glucagon this entire time, I always thought the mini dose was as magical as the half dose she would get in a emergency. But as I learned I shouldn't rely on it in cases like this, I shouldn't expect for it to work quickly and keep her stable... and zofran will always remain in my diabetes cabinet not as a Rx sitting at the pharmacy waiting for me to need it!</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-4299619092887403622011-06-07T16:45:00.000-07:002011-06-07T16:45:44.611-07:00Look whoo turned ONE!!!<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you believe it's been a whole year since baby Addison joined our family?!?!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels like just yesterday when we were all sitting around tossing around possible names for Baby "A"</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well it's been an awesome year, she fits perfectly into our family! She is very laid back and doesn't mind waiting a few minutes for her meal while we measure out Alivia's food or treat a low. </span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's also learning at a young age that it's completely "normal" for her Momma to occasionally check her blood sugar, sometimes she scoots over to me while I'm checking Sissy and gives me her hand :)</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyd2C73dZPH00-t3El8vJoLigFaFCo1HjZKg5fRXX_cKNjYEqEW1FmJ4IfyWQfuYRPMuupzlMQkARAjibTLezrcYgR9UwLBCJHvQW-OoBq4rq1nQwHtWjtr8DusNBoi80WKhAOJUAqAfh/s1600/257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoyd2C73dZPH00-t3El8vJoLigFaFCo1HjZKg5fRXX_cKNjYEqEW1FmJ4IfyWQfuYRPMuupzlMQkARAjibTLezrcYgR9UwLBCJHvQW-OoBq4rq1nQwHtWjtr8DusNBoi80WKhAOJUAqAfh/s320/257.JPG" t8="true" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">We're still not in the clear yet with her kidney issues, we just went in for her follow up ultrasound and Dr visit and the kidney is still swollen. It did not go away on it's own like we had hoped for but at this time it's not causing her any problems and it may never cause a problem. Surgery however will be required if it starts acting up.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">She's still not walking or crawling yet. I know she knows how to crawl but chooses not to and has very little interest in walking. BUT she does do this super cute butt scoot!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In a way I'm sad that my last and final baby is growing so quickly, I'll never again be the mother of an infant and yet at the same time I'm a little excited for the next stage of motherhood, raising my children. I'm super excited to be able to just hop in the car with out having to leave my bum hanging out of the backseat in the pouring rain to buckle carseats :)</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-24924052410273570132011-06-03T17:24:00.000-07:002011-06-03T17:26:08.807-07:00Everythings changing...<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And by everything I mean <strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G!!!</span></u></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">When we were discharged from the hospital 2 years ago Alivia was on a set insulin dose due to the NPH but when we switched over she was at a 1:15 ratio, for you non-d peeps that means for every 15 carbs she eats i would have to inject her with 1 unit of insulin. They warned us that as she grew her insulin needs would greatly increase...but they never did! Up until a few weeks ago she was still on a 1:15 ratio even though she's grown quite a few inches and gained about 25+ pounds! Of course her "Honeymoon Period" was a huge exception but that didn't last long at all! And sure there were times when we'd start to see a pattern of higher numbers and we'd bump it up a tad only to be greeted with constant lows, and so we changed it back to her "normal" ratio. Same thing with the Lantus and now her basal rates, we started her on an insulin pump over a year ago we spent only a few days tweaking her basal rate and what do you know it was the same rate of .250, 24 hours a day 7 days a week and has stayed that way every day since!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Even her ISF (insulin sensitivity factor) has stayed the EXACT same since day one! 1:200, once again for you non-d peeps :) 1 unit of insulin lowers her blood sugar 200 points, for example blood sugar of 400 would require 1.5 units of insulin to bring her blood sugar back into her target range.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was pretty smooth sailing, hardly any lows under 60 and only highs due to Mommy mess-ups and bad sites, and she hasn't had ketones since dx. Life went on and diabetes sorta faded into the background.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Fast forward 2 years to present day and then go back 3-4 weeks and we've got highs after highs after highs! Corrections are only working half ass and as soon as she eats she sky rockets AGAIN! Frustrated beyond belief I changed her site 10 times in 5 days, I opened 2 new bottles of insulin, it HAD to be one of those 2 things we've never had it any other way! After 5 very long and frustrating days had passed I finally gave in and started making changes, changes and more changes. Just 3 days later we were finally seeing numbers starting with a 1!!! We finally landed with an insulin to carb ratio of 1:10, basal rates of .500u/hour and an ISF of 1:150. All was right with the world and her numbers were "in range" every single time. Whew, that was rough but we all made it through alive and well (except for that A1c which will be sky high I'm sure!) End of story or so I thought...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Only a week after the return of the "in-range" numbers she was crashing hard and fast all the time. Lows only an hour after meals, corrections during the night bringing her into the 40's and 50's, and lows for no good reason! I very quickly pulled back hard on everything thinking she was just going through a growth spurt and now it's over. Everything was promptly returned back to "normal" and so did her numbers...for 4 days!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The last 2 weeks have been a nightmare! Everything only works for a few days before needing to be increased, a few days later decreased again, then increased, then...well you get the picture! I never know what number will pop up when I poke her little finger. She over reacts to every little thing and I never know if it's because she's high, low or just 4 going on 16! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In a way I feel like we're back at the starting line only the beginning of the last race was all down hill and this time it's up hill! I know so many of you have been going though this from the beginning but for us this is all new and very frustrating!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I do not like change! Or diabetes!</div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-24965122685997081532011-05-20T16:10:00.000-07:002011-05-20T16:10:23.143-07:00Two years ago...<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Two years ago today I woke up next to my baby who'd been sick all week.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I noticed today was different.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I told my husband "somethings really wrong, she's breathing funny".</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I called the nurse and demanded my daughter be seen, NOW!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago I buckled my baby into her carseat and handed her a cup of 7up and a puke bucket.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I fought back the tears as I drove, I was scared she was going to die.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I placed my baby on the scale and notice she's lost a LOT of weight.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today the Dr. suggested we spend a few hours at the hospital pushing a few bags of fluid.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I watched as my baby lay in the hospital bed unresponsive as they started an IV and took blood.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA14tFAt6JCoZ7XuAKihvIP7mpXvwDaAGqWeecGX7DWx61nPkB4OUPiKrgJoI9nFfr1kZYxRCbhKotEtnYxLf2OeE6DxkSsQt4c1_NnikKA5CHzQYGF5wUGc-dzyNNV-3m3NCPF5vk-fWu/s1600/SWWMC-Ped+Floor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA14tFAt6JCoZ7XuAKihvIP7mpXvwDaAGqWeecGX7DWx61nPkB4OUPiKrgJoI9nFfr1kZYxRCbhKotEtnYxLf2OeE6DxkSsQt4c1_NnikKA5CHzQYGF5wUGc-dzyNNV-3m3NCPF5vk-fWu/s320/SWWMC-Ped+Floor.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today the nurse came in gave me a hug and said "I'm sorry but she has type1 diabetes".</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I waited until she left the before I cried.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today the nurse returned, "your daughter is very sick, we can not care for her here. We'll move you down to the emergency room where they can watch her better until the transport team transports you to a children's hospital".</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I walked next to the gurney as they pushed her to the emergency room, everyone we passed had a look of sympathy on their face as if somehow they knew how close to death my baby was.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today a nurse came in and started my baby's first ever insulin drip.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5OhwNuEzfMwH158goF6Wb8tygPi_1rFnyVVtvwg8NjXtAcUOkaB-4U48Ls7-MQjIkkY4Hd93XOPaFkZMccMGJI_hOr_KKb5w2yvVMzsVmgg9S5g3z0iYXYRBTWRUfltZzI_STpcBmJ41/s1600/SWWMC-ER.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5OhwNuEzfMwH158goF6Wb8tygPi_1rFnyVVtvwg8NjXtAcUOkaB-4U48Ls7-MQjIkkY4Hd93XOPaFkZMccMGJI_hOr_KKb5w2yvVMzsVmgg9S5g3z0iYXYRBTWRUfltZzI_STpcBmJ41/s320/SWWMC-ER.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today the pediatrician came in and told me my baby was in DKA and how life threatening that really was.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I called my husband and told him to get here as soon as possible.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today a critical care transport team showed up to get my baby.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdW025J3rOJipjRmUTC0l2CifIaEyw1sWHbr-MKZq_d8hj7X1riaAvwFRd1f0I9oNuLVknQ2tXXWi737UAX2rPWaGQzFN2C70zmIw5zQc_M2PIIfIbiweS9K-MyF-DNO1x9YqDJUGFlEt/s1600/Transfer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMdW025J3rOJipjRmUTC0l2CifIaEyw1sWHbr-MKZq_d8hj7X1riaAvwFRd1f0I9oNuLVknQ2tXXWi737UAX2rPWaGQzFN2C70zmIw5zQc_M2PIIfIbiweS9K-MyF-DNO1x9YqDJUGFlEt/s320/Transfer.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I watched them load my baby into the back of pastel blue ambulance with angels on the side.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today we arrived at the children's hospital and went straight up to the Pediatric ICU.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I stood and watched in disbelief as they placed an IV in my baby's neck.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today I held my baby tight and thanked God for her life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two years ago today my baby's life was saved!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoixJTFYtfrd5c6e6T1IROZ8egPOZCzIcGrux2_7YjFMzBntAcJxRI-yEB4I2Yrn7RElhwsq8NNO9jmFLZUJJGOTHB6DsS5DntRmpCYqmtSWa1RG_Hl-XUiIoxNaHBz_uFjLhZE5hkdB4/s1600/LECH-PICU.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240px" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivoixJTFYtfrd5c6e6T1IROZ8egPOZCzIcGrux2_7YjFMzBntAcJxRI-yEB4I2Yrn7RElhwsq8NNO9jmFLZUJJGOTHB6DsS5DntRmpCYqmtSWa1RG_Hl-XUiIoxNaHBz_uFjLhZE5hkdB4/s320/LECH-PICU.JPG" width="320px" /></span></a></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-17133293709956387182011-02-18T10:16:00.000-08:002011-02-18T10:16:17.912-08:00Winner!!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>We have a winner...</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_pCMalZLzhuhhfmmcbOgCcipk5jtCQvahMKDQBwAKqoIMfVqQsdexWJsJt8zdw7Qf-Yac5pk6UW6QHtt4FLv7ccHBLuCD1qKbFueQNN3unvBAV88Kh1hytnaQKzgwlr0J5_HGNICNEqY/s1600/Purple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi_pCMalZLzhuhhfmmcbOgCcipk5jtCQvahMKDQBwAKqoIMfVqQsdexWJsJt8zdw7Qf-Yac5pk6UW6QHtt4FLv7ccHBLuCD1qKbFueQNN3unvBAV88Kh1hytnaQKzgwlr0J5_HGNICNEqY/s320/Purple.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure some of you have seen them online but for those of you who haven't they are awesome custom three dimensional silicone bands!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSrTWJz22zUKJ1e_yp5rqq1Mj5gAhHEvlObL3hKcCJsOqo8txQCkCEpdTLjGJCEJ3-NgbjEoCSwLDC_2ReqHYLwoYo9_0mAz8JKQ3VwyfnEos5ZnK4Juyk0V_-y-Z2BboKe-k5-KPq8o_/s1600/Black.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBSrTWJz22zUKJ1e_yp5rqq1Mj5gAhHEvlObL3hKcCJsOqo8txQCkCEpdTLjGJCEJ3-NgbjEoCSwLDC_2ReqHYLwoYo9_0mAz8JKQ3VwyfnEos5ZnK4Juyk0V_-y-Z2BboKe-k5-KPq8o_/s320/Black.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> They come in tons of cool colors and are so durable, what kid (or adult) wouldn't want to actually wear it!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdrfQzQOXpGgBRwAcUBHsfppYeyifIn1-U5a2zUex6TlUrBdhcflR4uKE9on8MZ8EwfYov0BIPK1MyCTjR5-EJrRX0alhFE9X4QFW9foyQu0xjQdkb031ziuPGc_kG8HSgwyp_G5oIkAo/s1600/Light%252520Blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdrfQzQOXpGgBRwAcUBHsfppYeyifIn1-U5a2zUex6TlUrBdhcflR4uKE9on8MZ8EwfYov0BIPK1MyCTjR5-EJrRX0alhFE9X4QFW9foyQu0xjQdkb031ziuPGc_kG8HSgwyp_G5oIkAo/s320/Light%252520Blue.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">What I totally love is that these nifty bands were created by families that actually have children with diabetes!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">You can read their story </span><a href="http://www.custom3dbands.com/about-us"><span style="font-family: Arial;">HERE!</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43Axeabp_qBHltSGzzQd14lu5QyseGHQ4IjhxEq2Z8FVoo0aLwuvQTG5aWXrVjaQzfmEoFRztJNQsLHraJNpFHvcmMN2HlE0uyannwe8ukbteHNx44LjOA31OEkBG2iVxQigYxveGaNjU/s1600/Pink.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43Axeabp_qBHltSGzzQd14lu5QyseGHQ4IjhxEq2Z8FVoo0aLwuvQTG5aWXrVjaQzfmEoFRztJNQsLHraJNpFHvcmMN2HlE0uyannwe8ukbteHNx44LjOA31OEkBG2iVxQigYxveGaNjU/s320/Pink.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My pal Dana is offering 3 customs bands to the lucky winner, if that's not you this week you can still get your hands on some! Check out their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/custom3Dbands?ref=ts">FACEBOOK PAGE</a> for special offers!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzFxDxeUZCuIkeT1V-SHOclxD9UCdgTIV2u6AO_WQjE3ZMvmKZglsVSbBPYqF3HMLpSKy7g-XAolAHIzKrkGzZgWk1reeWaaYx-gaDQyt8q4QkPQiwQ3eIsqNPYZalsu3iGMojUEp79sR/s1600/3d+bands.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzFxDxeUZCuIkeT1V-SHOclxD9UCdgTIV2u6AO_WQjE3ZMvmKZglsVSbBPYqF3HMLpSKy7g-XAolAHIzKrkGzZgWk1reeWaaYx-gaDQyt8q4QkPQiwQ3eIsqNPYZalsu3iGMojUEp79sR/s320/3d+bands.bmp" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got to the hospital around 10:30am for check in. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0x8aYYs6MObkUdzOkKWYbiZtgs0Cj2ELRxzggPjSkX-Juz5RMeMUv5kVyZWJabgajeqTjchRb8n7zJxPTbCEYdXQmn5QejIrRemTsBWUvD5v5OdWPZfsw7ChhJ82bAOGpWZqPPGVSuuO/s1600/August+149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0x8aYYs6MObkUdzOkKWYbiZtgs0Cj2ELRxzggPjSkX-Juz5RMeMUv5kVyZWJabgajeqTjchRb8n7zJxPTbCEYdXQmn5QejIrRemTsBWUvD5v5OdWPZfsw7ChhJ82bAOGpWZqPPGVSuuO/s320/August+149.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this point she hadn't nursed since 7:30am, she nurses about every 3 hours during the day so she was just hitting that 3 hour mark. I had it all planned out in my head, keep her awake until 10am so she's sleep at least until 11am, when I thought they'd put her out for the ultrasound and scan. Well thanks to a nice little boy in the waiting room that threw a <span style="font-size: large;">HUGE</span> screaming fit in the waiting room as soon as we got there that didn't happen!!! She woke up and of course was ready to eat, Tony walked her around and around the waiting room trying to distract her, I kept checking my phone waiting for her to be called back. When we were called back the man introduced him self and said he'd be doing the ultrasound, humm thought they were putting her out for that??? Nope! Lucky guy got to do the ultrasound on a very hungry and fussy baby! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisow21qwM7TyDnPDVke-vtKIf4P5ogz3E8zNIPvKAH3Jyys4G_iakSuhtoeFcu4GNrW2otd6GrDpEkZeg8gfYyfP1w7e4kIb2xgPD3PO6t-LH82kif3NMrgCl55ValSC1ZBJfomzhzzTP5/s1600/August+147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisow21qwM7TyDnPDVke-vtKIf4P5ogz3E8zNIPvKAH3Jyys4G_iakSuhtoeFcu4GNrW2otd6GrDpEkZeg8gfYyfP1w7e4kIb2xgPD3PO6t-LH82kif3NMrgCl55ValSC1ZBJfomzhzzTP5/s320/August+147.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After about a half hour of that he got what he needed and led us to another waiting room to wait for her next procedure.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her nurse and anesthesiologist were super nice, they went over everything with us. I really felt at peace handing my baby over to them. By this time it had been 4 1/2 hours since her last feeding and she'd finally given up and had fallen fast asleep in my arms. We were sent to the cafeteria for lunch and told to come back in about an hour and they took my baby girl away and through the door...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLwZQ7L8NCkUmytXN9VN9LYmsD5TP_V7dRbW1OCuZNNBiTtiGMtO3nwPzyJPNKRQ9rFJOsIGpq_geL1CA_U7tWmt-sB5kLm6TWn4HEfIRVOlDxuM_fmJsbDiN2j9x6Q8RJEOjwEHvLfJ2/s1600/August+150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkLwZQ7L8NCkUmytXN9VN9LYmsD5TP_V7dRbW1OCuZNNBiTtiGMtO3nwPzyJPNKRQ9rFJOsIGpq_geL1CA_U7tWmt-sB5kLm6TWn4HEfIRVOlDxuM_fmJsbDiN2j9x6Q8RJEOjwEHvLfJ2/s320/August+150.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hubby and I went down to get some lunch even though neither of us were very hungry. Finally an hour had passed an we went up to the waiting area. After a few minutes I heard my baby girls cries. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavy07WLODW2Jo9sV9AULA8ENSnUzYIwPN9sKjQtwQlz4JJv43KeCoa12uvq-QjcGcGDSpXYZaKaaaxcxw816oSVJqfxKKi2MvmaChyphenhyphenMvBs4JNX_k1h0O_6X-n6v2fo4Km327y3jKZN18r/s1600/August+151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavy07WLODW2Jo9sV9AULA8ENSnUzYIwPN9sKjQtwQlz4JJv43KeCoa12uvq-QjcGcGDSpXYZaKaaaxcxw816oSVJqfxKKi2MvmaChyphenhyphenMvBs4JNX_k1h0O_6X-n6v2fo4Km327y3jKZN18r/s320/August+151.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nurse saw me standing at the end of the hall way and let me come in and get her, boy was she MAD!!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjQ_0bgUr-Rp3_bHbV8NWN803Yd_QKI1E9WKreSxeE9i0OrooRXoS0n-vehOKevEx0ifUg_3bldUa01URsGgRv9Z0TEvf4FOfMpcrJ24fZFkVev3csoX8-UL14S8txD7K1IS7XS0fzdpa/s1600/August+154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfjQ_0bgUr-Rp3_bHbV8NWN803Yd_QKI1E9WKreSxeE9i0OrooRXoS0n-vehOKevEx0ifUg_3bldUa01URsGgRv9Z0TEvf4FOfMpcrJ24fZFkVev3csoX8-UL14S8txD7K1IS7XS0fzdpa/s320/August+154.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78vav3r1EENct8Csa_yUpCf-hZx81nBYTjbiZnyfPwgc6bfNvERIzscXnT-eDDpTGNGIbEHkUXD4KgFvty3Ud88N_a6drU6zPD9ltG9E4vNOUeg43RLTeQRosZJUOoA_TSXsJj-uh55fU/s1600/August+158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi78vav3r1EENct8Csa_yUpCf-hZx81nBYTjbiZnyfPwgc6bfNvERIzscXnT-eDDpTGNGIbEHkUXD4KgFvty3Ud88N_a6drU6zPD9ltG9E4vNOUeg43RLTeQRosZJUOoA_TSXsJj-uh55fU/s320/August+158.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a good feeding and some Tylenol my happy girl was back!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday was her follow up visit with the specialist and her results were <span style="font-size: large;">GREAT</span>! Both kidneys are functioning perfectly and both are doing their fair share of the work. We'll just continue follow up ultrasounds about every 6 months</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Rrnbia6RqMp7ZUsmQB2BhDzwXWnOTgZB-2bYGZt_SemmBhqlMZQwOefPaAmrfD_2PNsdiIXAKQCAzh0GdAwObbZj8xQG1YdZoiy6dCkCip2yz9x991s8IJfi2V5VPoHUw6vtvKP72KeR/s1600/August+221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Rrnbia6RqMp7ZUsmQB2BhDzwXWnOTgZB-2bYGZt_SemmBhqlMZQwOefPaAmrfD_2PNsdiIXAKQCAzh0GdAwObbZj8xQG1YdZoiy6dCkCip2yz9x991s8IJfi2V5VPoHUw6vtvKP72KeR/s320/August+221.jpg" /></span></a></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-990234570358939952010-08-17T21:26:00.000-07:002010-08-17T21:34:51.120-07:00Addison Update!<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well folks almost 4 months have already flown by since Baby Addison joined our family! I feel like time goes by faster with each baby! Makes me so very very sad!!!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4mKxe6qQniZQjNNMX3Kfk1yTNxP6HsbsvsCmN08_sbBucp-qRPa_NuklkiQt40EMJdQa0uwGA_xRBu8B_5Y8nNCo6zOqf9IbiJjFTqbNzYMMwhiAHOFLwWohY57GVecmj9e-5DlHBA6A/s1600/August+079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4mKxe6qQniZQjNNMX3Kfk1yTNxP6HsbsvsCmN08_sbBucp-qRPa_NuklkiQt40EMJdQa0uwGA_xRBu8B_5Y8nNCo6zOqf9IbiJjFTqbNzYMMwhiAHOFLwWohY57GVecmj9e-5DlHBA6A/s320/August+079.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial;">She's sleeping through the night and growing like a weed </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UQMPrUdwcQ5I0R99_NQkvnNqI69js2D8pYwzPI52EQRVJwJ5_6qAJRMqU_m7kCrVQTbB1aZeytOBdU3XkgDLOueIZYBa9ovsNezAEiRwirfn-9taUemUv9Z94otvioyCYj9LVGx86cGr/s1600/july+24-26+058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UQMPrUdwcQ5I0R99_NQkvnNqI69js2D8pYwzPI52EQRVJwJ5_6qAJRMqU_m7kCrVQTbB1aZeytOBdU3XkgDLOueIZYBa9ovsNezAEiRwirfn-9taUemUv9Z94otvioyCYj9LVGx86cGr/s320/july+24-26+058.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At her last appt with the kidney specialist he reviewed her prior labs and ultrasounds and ordered another blood draw, renal scan and a nuclear medicine scan. I was all fine and dandy with this until the nurse called to set up the appointment and informed me that she needed to fast before getting <span style="font-size: large;">PUT UNDER!!! SAY WHAT???</span> No one told me she needed to be knocked out for the procedure and how do you expect a breastfed baby to fast!!! The nurse said she had to be completely still for the procedure so that's why they choose to put the kids under. And she also said that because she is breastfed she can nurse up until 8am (4 hours before the procedure). Well tomorrow is the day and Im <strong>FREAKING OUT</strong>! I just want to cancel the whole thing!...But I can't!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-31332800240328386232010-06-01T20:42:00.000-07:002010-06-01T20:44:23.719-07:003 month Endo appt...<span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well the time has come for yet another check up for Alivia with the Pediatric Endo. Leading up to the appt I was looking through her log book and although most of her numbers were in range they were pretty much on the higher end, it wasn't until a few weeks before the appt that her numbers were coming down into the range I preferred. Current 14 day average on the meter...139, 90 day average...214! I figured were were looking at an A1c of 8.1 and was really surprised when it came back at <strong><span style="color: #ea9999; font-size: large;">7.5</span></strong>! I thought for sure all the time it took us to get adjusted to the pump and getting the basals set would of done a number on her A1c but I guess when you check and correct every 2 hours around the clock it doesn't do much damage. </span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dr. looked over her numbers and decided not to change much except the target range and to up her basal just a tad. He said we have great control but if we wanted to could even get it a little better. I'm all up for better! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76xSjsO_1daAGdAPa28B8DD68LcFs520-OgFi7BdYx2qo72HU0UL5ta-wQNQOjxMJoyVhIPoHGeoeyNZ6h2W6nByUvvCFex_f3S_SRc6n7z1SxFAu8A8ks9Bf5v_l6AttYG0E4JkphiPZ/s1600/Addison+Jean+033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh76xSjsO_1daAGdAPa28B8DD68LcFs520-OgFi7BdYx2qo72HU0UL5ta-wQNQOjxMJoyVhIPoHGeoeyNZ6h2W6nByUvvCFex_f3S_SRc6n7z1SxFAu8A8ks9Bf5v_l6AttYG0E4JkphiPZ/s320/Addison+Jean+033.JPG" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We changed her target from 150 to 130 during the day and from 150-200 to 130-150 during the night. Already her numbers have been great! We chatted a little bit about her weight again, she's now up to 50 pounds and is following the growth curve but just above it. He's not too concerned about it yet. After our appt we took the advanced pumpers class and learned about cool features of the pump like combo bolus!!! We tried it out on our Saturday morning Starbucks hot chocolate and it worked great! Such a cool feature!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDOyzntd6JTtdZP0rumAhGnQyymzCY8RBtrNrIs2cOsvv5obiBLPr-0mucro1126umOxu0-qdNngvZoWyl0sfHnMNt7t6dS3PZr6pYqw7ophXutFKL2bNzVTS7oTZw_-VsB8gP9NiWOzO/s1600/3+weeks-S'mores+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDOyzntd6JTtdZP0rumAhGnQyymzCY8RBtrNrIs2cOsvv5obiBLPr-0mucro1126umOxu0-qdNngvZoWyl0sfHnMNt7t6dS3PZr6pYqw7ophXutFKL2bNzVTS7oTZw_-VsB8gP9NiWOzO/s320/3+weeks-S%27mores+016.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Enjoying a S'more with no high blood sugar spike!-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our appt/class days Tony takes the day off and we try to make the day special for Alivia, all our attention is on her and we let her pick where we have lunch, This time she picked the hospital cafeteria of all places! Silly kid!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">After lunch we met up with a fellow D-mom <strong>Amy</strong> and her kids at </span><a href="http://www.cafesipnplay.com/"><em><span style="color: white;">Cafe Sip-n-Play</span></em></a><span style="color: #f4cccc;"> (best invention ever!). We got to sit and chat while the kiddos played, it was so amazing to talk with another D-mom face to face. I long for the day when I can chat with all you guys face to face too!!!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEy6wUCQrYYNewgh0SnxX-_bE6BzMyQTD3I36GZSuqawhRdOndc97K3rNFEGwWtFcp_XqTIBkxfOBUWcZ_opf0EwSQVouO1_h8iS82rXnqqVI7MhuhyphenhyphennBMd0osOaP80XAvgH4zqBvwyuT/s1600/Addison+Jean+023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" gu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEy6wUCQrYYNewgh0SnxX-_bE6BzMyQTD3I36GZSuqawhRdOndc97K3rNFEGwWtFcp_XqTIBkxfOBUWcZ_opf0EwSQVouO1_h8iS82rXnqqVI7MhuhyphenhyphennBMd0osOaP80XAvgH4zqBvwyuT/s320/Addison+Jean+023.JPG" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Holding baby Addison-</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Me: Liv what will you do when your diabetes goes away?<br />
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Alivia: I will share my food with Bro (Anthony) because it wouldn't have to be measured!<br />
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Me: Good thinking Liv, I'll be excited not to have to measure out your food too!AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-68809202422235455212010-05-15T13:15:00.000-07:002010-05-15T13:15:30.785-07:00Diabetes Blog Week-Day 6...Snapshots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Day 6 - Diabetes snapshots. Inspired by the Diabetes 365 project, let’s snap a few d-related pictures to share today. Post as many or as few as you’d like. Be creative! Feel free to blog your thoughts on or explanations of your pictures. Or leave out the written words and let the pictures speak for themselves<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBsNeIblK4Urqe_3PTwfWTCIlzPdhb3x_kHyuVQxf1Onv9cbDWuR1-ZNcwshJQyP63kYIVX2WzunW8wzBd-_eVoMRbiAxqPESVfHLrhqpwMinRr-Cdx2ylOSACWg6lESQ4tGWFCA_nl2Q/s1600/SWWMC-Ped+Floor.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBsNeIblK4Urqe_3PTwfWTCIlzPdhb3x_kHyuVQxf1Onv9cbDWuR1-ZNcwshJQyP63kYIVX2WzunW8wzBd-_eVoMRbiAxqPESVfHLrhqpwMinRr-Cdx2ylOSACWg6lESQ4tGWFCA_nl2Q/s320/SWWMC-Ped+Floor.JPG" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE9frwk4yRxm441swrp7tvFuaMIHge7PgJu9OvTql87IohsTjPVc4tfsG-tAG5FYS1fpA9TkIXaFI-qqSvLEcSoulEW3anIJ4IUwbaRCWOKbquJ38OWek762nArjrY0E9hqeS-qDpkmHL/s1600/SWWMC-ER.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoE9frwk4yRxm441swrp7tvFuaMIHge7PgJu9OvTql87IohsTjPVc4tfsG-tAG5FYS1fpA9TkIXaFI-qqSvLEcSoulEW3anIJ4IUwbaRCWOKbquJ38OWek762nArjrY0E9hqeS-qDpkmHL/s320/SWWMC-ER.JPG" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alivia is a active child, not wild and crazy but she LOVES to dance and do Yoga! Any time there's music on she's moving! And so far it does absolutely NOTHING to her blood sugar! Same with the Yoga that she does daily, NOTHING! She could dance and do Yoga for hours and blood sugar holds steady. But put her on a bike for 5 minutes and she drops all day and into the night!!! It usually takes 20-40 grams to cover 15-20 minutes of riding her bike. We usually give her a 20gm peanut butter granola bar before she rides and maybe one afterwards if she needs it. Then we still have a 50/50 chance of it catching up with her during the night and her dropping low, if that’s the case we usually treat the low with regular milk or if she's really low chocolate milk.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I guess in the end I love exercise...as long as it's not Bike Riding!!!</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-844530604094738552010-05-13T21:10:00.000-07:002010-05-13T21:10:31.349-07:00Day 4 of Diabetes Blog Week! To Carb or Not To Carb....<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Alivia was first dx almost a year ago she was put on NovoLog, Lantus and NPH and we met with a intuitionalist in the hospital to make a meal plan for her... Breakfast-30carbs, Lunch-45carbs, Snack-15carbs, Dinner-30carbs, no more no less! If she was still hungry after a meal or wanted a snack it had to be "free" aka less than 15carbs, some of her favorites were tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, lunch meat and eggs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a while we ditched NPH and were given a ratio to use with the NovoLog at every meal and snack. This meant more shots but more freedom to eat different amounts of carbs at different times during the day. The only catch was that the shots could only be given every 3 hours so once again we had to rely on "free" foods if she wasn't able to get a shot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then a month ago we got her started on the pump. It has been WONDERFUL!!! We can give her insulin for any amount of carbs at any time with just the push of a button! Yes we still rely on "free" foods if she's on the high side or has just been having too many carbs lately but if she insists on having carbs like only a 3 year old can I'm more than happy to push a button to give her the insulin she needs!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-58816790097519642802010-05-12T17:16:00.000-07:002010-05-12T17:17:07.370-07:00Welcome baby "A"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C-section was scheduled for Wednesday, April 21st at 8am. The day before I still had SO much on my "to do" list but didn't sweat it because I figured I wouldn't be able to sleep that night so I'd have tons of time to work on it, boy was I WRONG!!! That morning I called my son's Dr., he has asthma and despite the steroids and albuteral he was still coughing non-stop. She had him come in at 3:30, but they were running behind so I waited for over an hour in that little room with 2 kiddos, thinking about what I could cut from my "list". She finally came in and was pretty sure it was just his asthma acting up but gave him a 5 day course of antibiotics for baby "A"'s sake. Next it was on to Target to get the Rx filled and of course something wasn't right and we had to wait for the Dr. to call back and confirm the Rx...another hour and half down the drain (we live a 1/2 hour away from the pharmacy so going home to work on the "list" was not an option)! So by now it's pushing 7pm, kids still need dinner, baths and to be put to bed, oh yeah and Alivia needed a site change...I was almost in tears thinking about my "list", why do I always procrastinate??? It was probably close to 9pm by the time the kids were sleeping, poor kids 6am is gonna come really quick for them! I hurried up and took my last pregnant shower, not even taking much time to enjoy it, too stressed about the stupid "list". Then I made a huge mistake...I sat down!!! Wow I was exhausted!!! What to do??? Take a quick nap then work on the "list"??? Push through the "list" then enjoy a few hours of sleep??? Humm maybe a compromise, at least finish packing the bags and do the dishes then sleep, setting the alarm for 2 hours before we needed to leave to finish up the more important things on the "list" I now despised! Trouble was that I pushed snooze 100 times and didn't get up until 15 minutes before we needed to leave!!! So much for the stupid "list"! I now have a bedroom full of boxes and piles of crap that needed to be dealt with! Err why do I procrastinate!!! Well of course we were a little late getting out the door, we were supposed to leave our house by 5am to get to the hospital by 6am, I don't think we even left until 5:20! After about 20 minutes of Hubbys super SLOW driving I made him pull over and let me drive so we at least had some hope of making it to the hospital kinda "on time". We arrived at check in at 6:15am :) Then it was up to my room to get some blood work done and to get my IV started... that did not go well!!! I have tiny veins! They blew 5 veins before they finally gave in and used a smaller needle and a vein on my forearm...OUCH!!! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcGBa5ALWZSY4lhyphenhyphenk-iwoKG2dTT6kHVEHjobqHiEb-NISYukRiFrBN6U8_g_Lz3EcfD0qygg3PWUKSekMiw8Cg0TTcCGGd2g7kA80PbhExQE4-ZbFZQJ6dmnZCV3gwHtub91GgEQaBMXi/s1600/Addison-April+10+015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcGBa5ALWZSY4lhyphenhyphenk-iwoKG2dTT6kHVEHjobqHiEb-NISYukRiFrBN6U8_g_Lz3EcfD0qygg3PWUKSekMiw8Cg0TTcCGGd2g7kA80PbhExQE4-ZbFZQJ6dmnZCV3gwHtub91GgEQaBMXi/s320/Addison-April+10+015.jpg" wt="true" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baby "A" weighed in at 8 pounds 1oz, pretty big for only 38 weeks, nurse thought so too and because she was over 8 pounds needed to check her blood sugar...33! I got to see her for a few minutes but then they had to take her to the room for a bath and some formula to get her sugar up. By 9am I was all put together and back in my room in hopes of some times bonding with baby...no such luck, because of the formula she had no interest in nursing and it was hard to enjoy her with the nurse constantly pressing on my tummy, then the bleeding started, I'll save you from all the details but lets just say I lost a total of 5 units of blood during the entire C-section and 4 units in just the hour after the C-section...needless to say I got a nice shot right in my thigh! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diabetes Blog Week Day 1 (just made it! 11:50pm!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok now on to a day in my life...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12am: Hubby gets home from work and checks Alivia, he wakes me just enough to tell me she was high and needed a correction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30am: Time to nurse baby Addison, I "TRY" to stay awake long enough to put her back in her bassinet (doesn't always happen!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00am: Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, coming down but needs another correction, "Check BG-2hrs?"...Confirm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:00am: Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, coming down more but needs another correction, "Check BG-2hrs?"...Confirm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5:30: Time to nurse baby Addison again. Fingers crossed the screaming didn't wake the other kids, if so I scoot over to the edge of the bed to make room for the little ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6:00am: Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, much better...no correction needed </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7am: Kids are up, snuggle the kiddos for a few minutes trying to catch just a few more minutes of rest, check Alivia, change Addison’s diaper, drag myself out of bed, help the kids get dressed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7:30: Measure breakfast, bolus for breakfast, serve breakfast beg Alivia to finish eating breakfast all while nursing baby Addison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7:45: Make lunch, finish getting Anthony ready for school, feed Alivia the last few bites of her breakfast while still nursing baby Addison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8am: Diaper change and see Anthony off to school</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8:15am: Diaper change woke up Addison, still hungry! Snuggle Alivia on the couch while nursing baby Addison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8:30am: Another diaper change, Alivia helps me get Addison dressed and plays with her for a few minutes, nap time for baby Addison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9am: Quick shower for me and if it's a good day I actually have time to get dressed AND dry my hair before Alivia comes in telling me that baby Addison needs me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30am Another feeding for Addison, Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:00am: Diaper change and back to feeding baby Addison, play dollhouse with Alivia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:30am: Another diaper change and naptime for Addison, Alivia and I empty the dishwasher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11:30am: Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, measure out lunch, baby starts screaming, bolus for lunch, serve lunch, beg Alivia to finish lunch, try to eat a few bites of my lunch, baby screams louder, nurse baby Addison</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:00pm: Diaper change and finish nursing Addison</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12:30pm: Another diaper change and another nap for Addison, try to finish my lunch, try to figure out the carbs in the bites Alivia keeps taking from my plate, bolus Alivia for the half of my lunch she ate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30pm: Time to nurse Addison again</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00pm: Leave message for CDE about Alivia’s highs during the night, Say goodbye to the hubby as he leaves for work, diaper change and back to nursing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:30pm: Alivia’s beeping, "Liv please bring Mommy your meter", diaper change for Addison, Alivia’s still beeping, "Liv PLEASE bring Mommy your meter!", put Addison down for a nap, Alivia’s STILL beeping, get the meter myself, check blood sugar...a little on the high side, give correction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:00pm: Measure snack, bolus snack for Alivia, serve snack, get myself a snack since I only got half my lunch, eat half my snack when Alivia decides she wants what I'm having, measure, bolus, serve, Alivia decides she doesn't like what I'm having, pour Alivia some milk to make up for the snack she didn't eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3:30pm: Stand in the driveway waiting for the bus, CDE calls back, read off ALL Alivia’s numbers from the last 5 days while catching Anthony’s coat and backpack he rips off before even crossing the street, be greeted at the door by Alivia, "baby sister needs you!!!" ask the CDE to hold on, I can no longer hear her, Addison is screaming too loud, get Addison latched on and jot down the basal and insulin to carbs ratio changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:00pm: Help with homework, diaper change, back to nursing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:30pm: Diaper change, try to burp Addison with no luck, put Addison down for a nap, get dinner started</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5:00pm: Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, "WARNING HIGH BLOOD GLOUCOSE ABOVE 600", wash hands and repeat, "WARNING HIGH BLOOD GLOUCOSE ABOVE 600", Addison needs to be burped...the screaming starts!!! Me: “Choose now, correction shot? or new site with no magic cream?" Liv: “Umm no shot, new site with magic cream!" Screaming baby gets louder Me: “We don't have time for magic cream! you're going to feel a poke either way just pick!" Liv: “MAGIC CREAM!" Screaming baby gets much MUCH louder!!! Anthony: "I can't hear the TV!!!" Me: “PICK NOW BEFORE YOU SLIP INTO A COMA!!!" Liv: “fine a new site with no magic cream", new site on the belly but still need to fill the cartridge and change it out, that can wait a few minutes, hook her back up to the old cartridge and give a big correction. Pick up Addison instantly a huge burp followed by LOTS of projectile spit up all over my shirt! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5:30pm: Quick shirt change. Try to salvage dinner. Measure, bolus and serve dinner. Fight with Anthony to try a bite of dinner. Addison starts fussing in the swing, hungry again since she threw up her last feeding. Take a few quick bites of my dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6:00pm Un-hook Alivia from her pump and gather everything needed to change the cartridge . Get Addison latched on and get to work setting basals and ratios, change out cartridge and get Liv hooked back up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7:00pm Bed time...YAY!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7:30pm Alivia’s beeping...check blood sugar, coming down nicely, hope the new basal works tonight. Finish my dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8:00pm Give Addison a bath and ready for bed </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30pm Put Addison to bed. Clean up dinner mess. Clear a path through the living room so Hubby doesn't break his neck when he comes home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:00pm Head upstairs, check Alivia’s blood sugar...73! Was it the correction? Was it the new ratio? Was it the new basal? Did she not eat all her dinner? Back downstairs for a juice box (glad I cleared a path!) Get myself ready for bed. Re-check blood sugar...113. Back down stairs for 7grams of milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:30pm Check on Addison. Climb into bed, find something good on TV to fall asleep to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11:00pm Fall asleep...Addison starts fussing...wanting to be fed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12am: Hubby gets home from work and checks Alivia...167 Perfect!</span><br />
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font-size: large;">Is it just me or is the name "Baby A" starting to sound really good!?</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As soon as we found out I was pregnant I knew we needed an "A" name, all 3 of our other children start with "A". Very quickly we both decided on Austin Jacob or Ava Jean and at 17 weeks when we found it was a girl we instantly started calling her Ava. Months passed, we even got things with her name on them...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial;">Then out of the blue Hubby tells me he doesn't really think Ava is the right name!!! Back to square one! I threw out a ton of suggestion but he's shot them all down. When I asked him for suggestions he said "Harley"...what!!! that's not even an "A" name!!! No Way!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So since I'm not getting any help from him I need help from all you. You only get 1 vote and you HAVE to use it! No "any name is fine", you know you have an opinion! The middle name has to be Jean (after my Grandmother).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial;">Your choices are...</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Ava </span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Addison </span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Adelyn </span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Avery </span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Alexis </span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Ashlyn</span></div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Amily</span></div></li>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few belly shots...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-pjwzgpo2aVg3fASjXPhDwfpt_dZTaoLgDNsNhWvkaRBIMMzfMaqWz2MXyGZjo8HDJ1LrJukWHBgpkTWTxv91l6JFEeqbIEjqRs_WJA1S9TgLWJSRrj2DmIg4w9Hef0rrjSVqoPw5QmBL/s1600/April+2010+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-pjwzgpo2aVg3fASjXPhDwfpt_dZTaoLgDNsNhWvkaRBIMMzfMaqWz2MXyGZjo8HDJ1LrJukWHBgpkTWTxv91l6JFEeqbIEjqRs_WJA1S9TgLWJSRrj2DmIg4w9Hef0rrjSVqoPw5QmBL/s320/April+2010+002.jpg" wt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">37 Weeks</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-13757295997841094082010-04-06T17:57:00.000-07:002010-04-06T18:01:47.285-07:00Pump Start!!!<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday Alivia got a delivery from the UPS guy…</span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYcrqSBQ8vuQE3YEe9g5EkvWDaW9WJQbDNl8T9QNyFLeEym12dqna8sBRHVWf0GWKihkwzW5lLsJjYjDH5-_MPoOt9dVaFkLoOAeQSw-8o_yjzHeTbRN0u0n2Pzna91JvSpQ_1wM0lA9au/s1600/March+2010+026.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYcrqSBQ8vuQE3YEe9g5EkvWDaW9WJQbDNl8T9QNyFLeEym12dqna8sBRHVWf0GWKihkwzW5lLsJjYjDH5-_MPoOt9dVaFkLoOAeQSw-8o_yjzHeTbRN0u0n2Pzna91JvSpQ_1wM0lA9au/s320/March+2010+026.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was her <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Pink Ping pump!</span> </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohQ1w6_bKGdL6-NpaIT6pKqr2R9LJkhbuKY5VJiVPakTGdgTcpqEmmf8JB7rsrYtMLoLbVTEPufRH9vv2Ez99cZMYmaex9ZudDVYb93fxz5b5Nfl598HCgQpDxTLQgUqen8jsf2g_1HZO/s1600/March+2010+027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohQ1w6_bKGdL6-NpaIT6pKqr2R9LJkhbuKY5VJiVPakTGdgTcpqEmmf8JB7rsrYtMLoLbVTEPufRH9vv2Ez99cZMYmaex9ZudDVYb93fxz5b5Nfl598HCgQpDxTLQgUqen8jsf2g_1HZO/s320/March+2010+027.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was so excited to open it up! </span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4JHbDHbAVW1m8eDa-vmWhDVjhkXZvPHJp8puEgJRk88ICWQUqTtofcdkVKIfhbKYD8OEZH8228xxyTy2EHVp4_qdeZupfrmtnRDjty4GR9oxVjLmFyVKDkmSi20O5ndLoT61UOU5a7GL/s1600/March+2010+031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy4JHbDHbAVW1m8eDa-vmWhDVjhkXZvPHJp8puEgJRk88ICWQUqTtofcdkVKIfhbKYD8OEZH8228xxyTy2EHVp4_qdeZupfrmtnRDjty4GR9oxVjLmFyVKDkmSi20O5ndLoT61UOU5a7GL/s320/March+2010+031.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She loved looking at it and was very excited to try it out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8GO44uQ6gi3IswWqw8Jjn7SY2-pfArzUI06MqIKvIasQqdcMIKb2Mv4rtDtuqu2GRxfj7yklLkeRAq1UQveVkirtf-hB9GKjqfeOOOUyI2tcFaDraLcmEXE0sbrTMe1Ve6KEalL-gCdz/s1600/March+2010+033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8GO44uQ6gi3IswWqw8Jjn7SY2-pfArzUI06MqIKvIasQqdcMIKb2Mv4rtDtuqu2GRxfj7yklLkeRAq1UQveVkirtf-hB9GKjqfeOOOUyI2tcFaDraLcmEXE0sbrTMe1Ve6KEalL-gCdz/s320/March+2010+033.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was hard for her to pack it up and wait until the next day when we met with the trainer</span>.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9i5GHGXx7TBvpbRvJo0qBrK029BzG_zusJxzzVC7ww0jsyJTtAWX5Xa4QByrNrKtjE9qzcog0V8PtluWLwsa036JmoRUoOW_JDDjKiJzHiXleFtx8sSNnTyQbvpJQUv-JhHiXwfdFjIN/s1600/March+2010+029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9i5GHGXx7TBvpbRvJo0qBrK029BzG_zusJxzzVC7ww0jsyJTtAWX5Xa4QByrNrKtjE9qzcog0V8PtluWLwsa036JmoRUoOW_JDDjKiJzHiXleFtx8sSNnTyQbvpJQUv-JhHiXwfdFjIN/s320/March+2010+029.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday the trainer arrived at our house around 1pm and spent a good 2 hours going over the basic setup of the pump and showed us how to put a site on Alivia. Alivia did great! We used the numbing cream and she didn’t feel a thing! We didn’t actually fill the pump with insulin but the trainer wanted her to keep it on as long as possible so she could get a feel for it and she wanted Tony and I to play around with the pump and remote as much as possible. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0VipIfC1v4sDJHKd_-NuuROF_gI-3u9V_GoH4i5JvE-2MM4NkOth4nNNJNsKl3xrkUowYthOtzq-xI8rA9A26XynaCy6Vkq_jzD5aE5IqOdys2yQUvYXJkX-3e5Ng11KfJyC-3Q0wzBy/s1600/April+2010+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><img border="0" nt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0VipIfC1v4sDJHKd_-NuuROF_gI-3u9V_GoH4i5JvE-2MM4NkOth4nNNJNsKl3xrkUowYthOtzq-xI8rA9A26XynaCy6Vkq_jzD5aE5IqOdys2yQUvYXJkX-3e5Ng11KfJyC-3Q0wzBy/s320/April+2010+002.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1st site</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I drew the circle to show where I had put the magic cream...Daddy was a little off target.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She loved these! Unfortunately I’m not the best at sewing and the weight of the pump eventually took it’s toll on the stitching. I do think that the tank tops work best for her right now so I plan on taking the rest of the fabric and the other tank tops to a professional to have done right, I’m sure they can make them to last. </span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday morning we lost the 2nd site, the corner that had started peeling up the day before got stuck to the inside of her tank top and when she went to take off the tank top the site came with it. We chose not to waste another set and let her have one last day with nothing stuck to her body. We did however learn a very important lesson…IV prep is a MUST!!!</span></div><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally Friday arrived and so did the trainer! It was a very quick lesson, actually more like a quiz, she had us do the site all on our own (we used the IV prep this time!) and re-set a few of the targets, my idea of Alivia’s target and her Drs were a bit off, I like her in the 70-150 range during the day and 150-250 at night and he wanted it more like 100-250 during the day and 150-300 at night. We settled on 100-200 during the day because all it really means is that if she was below 100 the pump wouldn’t have me cover much if any of a snack and it wouldn’t have me correct her until she hit 201. And 150-250 at night. She reminded me that they weren't set in stone and I could always change them when we got everything fine tuned.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;"></span>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-38946441873278186152010-03-23T14:11:00.000-07:002010-03-23T14:18:43.676-07:00Baby Shower!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saturday my sister threw me an amazing Baby Shower!!!</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BALpibrcTWbgWvx_hqzUvN-Qz0IdfCYCoOmTqzbHMZa6PXKllgTXPEwJPRs2hyphenhyphenn-4tXAP4sky0eRV2tDeO0NJ1QDErFVJM0sgz_DtDaTG9nSirco0MwxFW3a4h2WE41AJ6I6qIED5pLE/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3BALpibrcTWbgWvx_hqzUvN-Qz0IdfCYCoOmTqzbHMZa6PXKllgTXPEwJPRs2hyphenhyphenn-4tXAP4sky0eRV2tDeO0NJ1QDErFVJM0sgz_DtDaTG9nSirco0MwxFW3a4h2WE41AJ6I6qIED5pLE/s320/Baby+Shower+005.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(All the Goodies)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq5Qb24WtmO5MWQ6omzd67Yb0c9MgHOjY51t1rAbVNyJNIj_6CK3saz-r1owoTLZYDYL4RNxbsaRrI6LZ6pi2zNJUhcA34j-Pp1oc660yO_FDxHqzJm4jVIq4cTOLhT3X5C5IuZIU2nluB/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq5Qb24WtmO5MWQ6omzd67Yb0c9MgHOjY51t1rAbVNyJNIj_6CK3saz-r1owoTLZYDYL4RNxbsaRrI6LZ6pi2zNJUhcA34j-Pp1oc660yO_FDxHqzJm4jVIq4cTOLhT3X5C5IuZIU2nluB/s320/Baby+Shower+014.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(50 carb cupcakes!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjXUK-4LcP2KNQGQT7MzBoR2n0BxA5kaR5AKzge3xtrSEQurBd575pBg4KKTcIJFQEonrw_xeontDANTqiAKTz1edt2e9JrHnqZdGnvJpn02tE3ynEzNhJdDy84AdaRZhLk3P-icHMkIg/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjXUK-4LcP2KNQGQT7MzBoR2n0BxA5kaR5AKzge3xtrSEQurBd575pBg4KKTcIJFQEonrw_xeontDANTqiAKTz1edt2e9JrHnqZdGnvJpn02tE3ynEzNhJdDy84AdaRZhLk3P-icHMkIg/s320/Baby+Shower+016.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVjM6-V3D1q96lLh-Cj3AS3R3vddru2TrT-8x_mo3-Qs0OrAeJsSCRIj7Bb4xFStqF_PZNPMb3JF1dW5CpRdfe9NirTtBIYg2MGgjcGY8K85MP_61n2OKugNITYzklJJutRmUHJefCz84/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVjM6-V3D1q96lLh-Cj3AS3R3vddru2TrT-8x_mo3-Qs0OrAeJsSCRIj7Bb4xFStqF_PZNPMb3JF1dW5CpRdfe9NirTtBIYg2MGgjcGY8K85MP_61n2OKugNITYzklJJutRmUHJefCz84/s320/Baby+Shower+011.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Delicious Food)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family to help us welcome our Little Girl into the world! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU1odOos-1N9HLkIO8TBu9zxxFSiyaDr7F_g4fwlRXnA-BiwycBs9BEOFBGH9jM6c0W_hb5HwY5uNZ2HK121h3jN_cUl6jVYvTQw0SSSGQ08X6F1IVFBQ_iFv_Ql7AOW3ovjPmbYLDYFp/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYU1odOos-1N9HLkIO8TBu9zxxFSiyaDr7F_g4fwlRXnA-BiwycBs9BEOFBGH9jM6c0W_hb5HwY5uNZ2HK121h3jN_cUl6jVYvTQw0SSSGQ08X6F1IVFBQ_iFv_Ql7AOW3ovjPmbYLDYFp/s320/Baby+Shower+013.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alivia of course had to come and be a part of the shower although she really thought it was going to be a real SHOWER, on the way there she said "Mommy you need to be careful not to get water in the baby’s eyes at the baby shower"...I couldn't help but laugh as I tried to explain that in was not in fact a SHOWER with water, more like a birthday party for the baby with presents, games and goodies to eat.</span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnyoXLv-p71wPKjow98MKbzAcvbhbCkqxoXgRrg7SzUHOiIPzcPOPOv8BLGNwoSVlOCNq1UECr_B4rckLXM-09qil4W6Im3ovDb2zGqP556EFOxMlYuwaGHMcxBFmY5BAbPDMSNnopd5Q/s1600-h/Baby+Shower+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnyoXLv-p71wPKjow98MKbzAcvbhbCkqxoXgRrg7SzUHOiIPzcPOPOv8BLGNwoSVlOCNq1UECr_B4rckLXM-09qil4W6Im3ovDb2zGqP556EFOxMlYuwaGHMcxBFmY5BAbPDMSNnopd5Q/s320/Baby+Shower+017.jpg" vt="true" /></a></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alivia helping to open baby sisters presents...</span></div><div class="" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-47137785804053156842010-02-16T19:16:00.000-08:002010-02-16T20:10:28.532-08:00Things about me you might not know...<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Well I guess since everyone else admitted to reading Shamaes post I will too...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many Many Baskets for Toys! One baskets per group of toys (Hot Wheels, Cars, Legos, Army, Dollhouse, Barbie’s, Ponies, Dress-up, I could go on and on!) I have a total of 4 of these shelves, each hold about 8 or 9 baskets...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIuZDOq_KDa3rFhCDAcXbFNNd7s3j9oZ6Ka37dy18Sfd4UtCHhZs4o39hF6KvU5MbH6wrCiUpZltIjGSEw8TmTQlu5DLOMao2EOzd3Qg2F-Oyg3mgu8Ujw9F7rg1NeOpfuRqGgoEsMU-v/s1600-h/Girls+Room+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPIuZDOq_KDa3rFhCDAcXbFNNd7s3j9oZ6Ka37dy18Sfd4UtCHhZs4o39hF6KvU5MbH6wrCiUpZltIjGSEw8TmTQlu5DLOMao2EOzd3Qg2F-Oyg3mgu8Ujw9F7rg1NeOpfuRqGgoEsMU-v/s320/Girls+Room+006.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Propel aka: "Grape Water"...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 300 flossers...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6 shaving creams, 8 deodorants, 8 new razors/refills, all still left from my last shopping trip back in November...</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a tiny bit of <span style="font-size: large;">OCD</span>, but only about certain things. A pile of mail can sit on the counter for weeks and I could care less but I like everything else done a certain way...</span></li>
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the dishwasher organized by size and color...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like all the books on the shelf organized by size (very hard to keep done with kids)...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial;">I may post a part 2 but being that I <span style="font-size: large;">Procrastinate</span> on everything I wouldn’t hold your breath!</span></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-35974504760565373332010-02-11T20:52:00.000-08:002010-02-13T07:51:06.437-08:003 month Endo appt and PUMP CLASS!!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Endo Appt...</strong></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess I'll start with the Endo appt because it just happened to be first up today...</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was only our 3rd appt and it was the first one that I didn't worry myself sick over the A1c. I knew the last A1c of 6.8 would be history and I was truly ok with that. August- October was so easy...too easy! November-January have been much much harder, I knew I tried my best but the D Monster put up a darn good fight, no matter how much I adjusted she had random highs everyday and random lows once or twice a week, there was never a pattern! I was actually a bit surprised that it was 7.5 (her current 30day average on the meter was 219...yikes!). Her Dr was pretty happy with that, he agrees that she's definitely coming out of her honeymoon period and expected the rise in her A1c because of that. He looked over our log book and couldn't find a pattern for her crazy highs either and didn't want to make any changes. He did offer up a few suggestions for us to try out on our little guinea pig to see if we could fix the problem. Well give them a try, hopefully it won't lead to lows! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been reading my blog for awhile you'd know that we were all getting pretty concerned about her weight, at dx in May she was 27 pounds just 4 months later in September she was 40 pounds and only a month later at our last appt she was up to 45 pounds!!! I was so excited today when he told us she was 46 pounds, she's still off the chart for weigh but at least the gaining is slowing down!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">And best of all he went ahead and gave us the green light for the<strong> <span style="font-size: x-large;">PUMP!!!</span></strong></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you tell I'm excited about this part???? </span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As much as I liked meeting the reps during the in home hands on demos, I really felt like they were just trying to sell their product, mostly because they were!!!</span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was SO nice to have an impartial person going over each and every pro and con for each of the pumps. In the end we just had to pick, there wasn't "the perfect" pump (someone needs to make it!!!!). </span></div><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I <em>wanted</em> the good remote, </span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I <em>wanted</em> the linked CGM, </span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I <em>wanted</em> the tubeless feature...but which one did I want more??? </span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted the <strong>Ping</strong>, yes it has tubing, no I can't have a linked CGM, yes it will take a few more steps to deliver insulin, but it is waterproof, it can deliver the smallest amount of insulin which Alivia will need, it has the good remote, I can give insulin directly from the pump if needed, it keeps track of IOB and most importantly it comes in <span style="color: magenta;">pink!</span> We meet with the rep tomorrow to start the paperwork!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Honestly though if Medtronic had the good remote (they currently only have a tiny one with 3 buttons, no screen) I would of gone with them. With an active 3 year old I felt like we needed the remote, at least until she does it on her own.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If everything goes well with the insurance we should be pumping in a month!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-zFQB6J38x2LNL8fIAWLUIekr0eoGyL71TggmO6S1pb0KNv1-FZOizgY9mIMyWqnZjLWhQ-_J0jeutDBrevjosAjPF-0OLuwYl_H0l51Hbng56u_1yhAkMST3CjpMTjBkA-xuIhhusHz/s1600-h/0212001618[1].JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB-zFQB6J38x2LNL8fIAWLUIekr0eoGyL71TggmO6S1pb0KNv1-FZOizgY9mIMyWqnZjLWhQ-_J0jeutDBrevjosAjPF-0OLuwYl_H0l51Hbng56u_1yhAkMST3CjpMTjBkA-xuIhhusHz/s320/0212001618%5B1%5D.JPG" /></a></div>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-71358654887403313812010-02-04T19:09:00.000-08:002010-02-04T19:09:47.806-08:00Picking a Pump...<span style="color: #f4cccc;">Well 1 week from today is our pump class! They will quiz us on insulin adjustment among other thing and if we pass (I think I'll let the Hubby copy off my paper) we'll get to choose our pump!!! The only problem is that I'm so torn in which one I want. My 3 choices; OmniPod, One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">OmniPod got the boot, apparently it doesn't keep track of insulin on board other than correction. in my 1st thoughts I didn't care about that because I couldn't keep track of it with shots anyways so it didn't really matter, but the more I thought about it, it hit me that why even bother switching to the pump if I'm not going to let technology help me gain better control of her numbers (we have enough lows with out over dosing her with insulin)! So I figured for now I'll skip on the awesome tube-less feature to keep my daughter safer, maybe when she can actually tell me she feels low we'll revisit the OmniPod. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">So with that I'm only left with the One Touch Ping and MiniMed Paradigm...I can't choose!!! I LOVED the MiniMed one but only because it had the pump, CGM and test meter that were linked together. The only thing I didn't like was that it didn't have a good remote and we'd need to actually have her pump in our hands to do what we needed to do. Most of you guys with young children know getting a 3 year old to stand still while you fiddle around with the pump imputing number and what not is next to impossible! </span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I haven't actually gotten to see the Ping one yet, the company has yet to call me back after my 3 e-mails about setting up a hands on demo. I've heard tons of good things about it! Those of you that have it, is there anything about it that you don't like or wish you could change? And does it come with good support? The MiniMed one came with a nurse for the first few weeks, you e-mailed over your numbers everyday and they'd help you make changes and once everything was good they'd turn you back over to your endo office, I really liked knowing I wasn't just turned loose with it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f4cccc;">I know there has been a ton of talk about pumps lately but if you're not too burned out on it please, please leave me a comment with any info you think I'll need to make this choice! Thanks!!!</span>AjsMommy82http://www.blogger.com/profile/05254080960339217377noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-445458241993622842.post-20839329643174248202009-12-29T19:56:00.000-08:002010-01-17T16:03:04.930-08:00Secret Santa!!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Thank You Ronda and Olivia! </strong></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First of all Alivia LOVED the fact that not only did she get a present from her friend that "has diabetes like me" but that she got a present from a girl who has the same name! </span><br />
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