Diane,
I read your thread and it was as if I had written it. My son Caleb is 6, dx’d before he turned 4. I too try to make things as normal as possible for him - I don’t want him looking back thinking D ran his childhood and thus have him rebel (sneak food).
Caleb also has a peanut allergy. At his spring party on Thursday, cookies “manufactured in a plant that processes peanuts” were sent in even though it’s a “peanut free” classroom. Well I had a backup cupcake in case this very thing happened. I asked Caleb if he wanted the cupcake and he refused. He is embarrassed to have things the other kids don’t. There was plenty of other stuff - he had 75 carbs of a snack, but it breaks my heart that he feels this way. When he is low in school, he has a box of various things to treat his lows. He ALWAYS chooses sugar tabs because they appear more like “medicine” and he doesn’t want the buddy that takes him to the nurse to feel left out. Again - heart breaking.
So, the only thing I might have done differently is maybe given Caleb a super-bolus at the 250 mark even though the food insulin wasn’t through him yet because inevitably situations like that compound themselves. I would then check at an hour or an hour and a half to try and catch a low (which ended up not being your problem anyway). But that’s what I might have done. Ice cream always sends Caleb high for hours, so I would have had to give an extended bolus too.
I appreciate Priscilla’s comments. As a parent we lack the first hand perspective and I am always so appreciative to hear from those who have it.
I still wonder how all these limits and restrictions will impact him. Like you, I want to teach him that anything is ok within reason. That is one of the great benefits of pumping after all isn’t it? For Caleb, the parties are few enough that I like to let him have what he can within reason and just be super diligent in testing (or maybe I should say hyper-diligent since I’m regularly super diligent :)). For me, he is isolated enough - I want to minimize it when I can.
We are headed to NYC for a few days and that means restaurants and unknowns and crazy blood sugars. I am not looking forward to it. Wish us luck!
Lo