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Thursday
Aug162007

Day One: 9:25 am Arden is hungry

Arden settled on waffles and sausage for breakfast.  The waffles were 20 carbs, sausage 2 carbs, two teaspoons of syrup about 6 and the juice bag has 8.  Arden’s BG is stubborn in the morning.  It inexplicably takes more Novolog to bring her down then it does during the rest of the day.   

I just gave her one and a half units of Novolog.  We have a timer set to check her BG again in an hour and forty minutes.  With that much insulin I can’t wait to know what it is again any longer without risking a seizure.  The seizures are refered to in the diabetes community as “low blood sugar incidents” but f*** that, I’ve seen two and narrowly averted about twenty others and let me tell you... they’re seizures.  I think the name change is to make them seem less horrible...

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Susan - Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 05:49 PM

This isn't the first time I have visited your blog, but today is the first time I have spent quality time reading posts and following links. I decided to finally start from the beginning. This post is like 'Aha! I knew I wasn't imagining it.' My daughter's BG is more resistant in the morning. Often she is high a lunch time at school which is inexplicably at 10:30 a.m. This is three hours after getting her morning dosage so It should be fine. What makes it worse is if she has a complex carb. I will even over dose her to account for it, and it still doesn't do the trick. This is one of the more frustrating complaints I have.

 

Scott - Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 09:28 AM

Hi Susan!

I was just doing some maintenance on the blog and I was like... "did someone comment on a four year old post?" 

I'm so glad that you took the time to look at the blog chronologically, I think it can serve as a sort of 'crystal ball' for newly/newer diagnosed families. Great luck to you!

 

 

Thursday
Aug162007

Day One: 8:25 am Arden is awake

This morning Arden’s BG was 218 at 8:27 am.  That’s too high.  It’s interesting because I put her to bed last night at the same BG I put her to bed at the previous night.  Yesterday morning doing the same exact thing she woke up at 74 (way too low).  

I gave Arden her long acting insulin (called Levemir) at 8:30 am. More on Levemir later...

Arden is hungry now... I have to go make her breakfast, count the carbohydrates in it and give her another shot of a fast acting insulin called Novolog.  The Novolog starts to work in about twenty minutes, peaks at two hours and burns out in three hours.  Click here for a video of Arden’s morning test and shots.

 

Thursday
Aug162007

Decided to Share

 

I can’t sleep... Haven’t really been able to for about a year now.  On August 22nd Arden will be a Type I diabetic for one year.  I’m going to try and relay to all of you what Arden’s disease is, how it effects her and how it effects our family.  My goal is to give you a glimpse into our life so that you can better understand Type I diabetes... My hope is that the understanding will result in your advocacy.  

Starting now I’ll be updating this site as much as is needed to bring you into all of this as completely as possible.  I’ll be taking pictures and video as much as possible.  I think diabetes is one of those things you need to feel to understand, an explanation just doesn’t do it justice.  It’s a much more visceral experience then you may think.

That picture (above) is from just now (3:00 am), Arden just called me from her bed.  She wanted to lay down with us.  I checked her Blood Glucose (from here on out known as BG) and it was good.  Well not really good, high actually about 120 - 150 points higher then a non-diabetics would be at 3 AM but good for our purposes.  Don’t worry it’ll all start making sense to you soon...  Please use the “Subscribe” button on the ‘Daddy’s Blog’ page to stay up-to-the-minute.  I really think that being updated every-time something happens will help bring you into the process.  

Please share this link with any and everyone you know.  Off to get some sleep...

 

 

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