First thing Monday we were at the doctors: examination and X rays later produced “the good news”. It is NOT pneumonia, “just bronchitis” with his chest feeling “a bit tight”. We went home with a handful of stuff from the pharmacy:
Recently, Mr T had felt exhausted and out of sorts, resting AND sleeping during the day over that weekend. He normally NEVER sleeps during the day. On Sunday night, he was kind of wheezing while breathing in his sleep - something that happened to him for the first time.
First thing Monday we were at the doctors: examination and X rays later produced “the good news”. It is NOT pneumonia, “just bronchitis” with his chest feeling “a bit tight”. We went home with a handful of stuff from the pharmacy:
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All I wanted for Christmas last year was a Cure for Diabetes. Second on the list was “Think like a pancreas”, a book by Gary Scheiner. I got my second choice. While I am still reading Gary’s book (savoring shall I say – or rather reading carefully so I do not miss something important) I jumped at the opportunity to see him talk about “Use of advanced features of insulin pumps”, here in Brisbane. Like in his book, his words during the presentation came out so easily and made complete sense. He spoke about “Almost 101 uses of Temporary Basal” and examples of the use of combo or dual wave boluses. I had “discovered” temporary basal about a year into Mr T’s pumping and have been exploring the various uses of this feature ever since. I was glad to find out I was familiar with most possible uses, some of which I did not fully understand, how and why they worked as well as they did. That is where Gary came in. Touch wood, the end of another year is approaching, another year that we did not have to rush to the hospital for a drip. (I do hope that Mr Murphy and his law can not hear me). It is summer here but the viruses and nasties are still in the air. The fact that quite a few children we know are currently fighting a tummy virus and vomiting, keeps me on my toes. When you are a parent of a child with diabetes, you need to be well prepared for sick days. I decided to go over my sick day supplies and routines, just in case.
On a regular day everything goes as usual: tests, numbers, food, more numbers, insulin, more numbers…. and the numbers vary, as they do, when you have diabetes, but that is OK. No major drama. Then you forget to re-connect the pump when you get into your pajamas…. A few hours later – the NUMBERS HAVE GONE MAD ! You too….. And that is what happened the other night.
Mr T has always been a very agile, ever-so-on-the-move child: climbing under and on top of things, jungle gyms, trees. Anything. The activity was always welcomed in our family, more so since he was diagnosed with diabetes at age of 3. We soon noticed that the activity improves absorption and effectiveness of insulin. For the first 3 years after the diagnosis, Mr T was on multiple daily injections of insulin’s. We used pens. He therefore had nothing permanently attached to his body and was free to move, run and climb without a worry of damaging the pump or catching the line and pulling the infusion set off.
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October 2014
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