it was kennedys birthday today and we took some friends out to a water park, numbers running high in the afternoon, then we had a botched pod change and had a painful pod on thigh and had to change again, 300 at the time I left her at a sleepover. I am just petrified, but it is her birthday so I wanted to give her a chance to be with her friends. I hope she does ok. What has everyone done to stay in contact with blood sugars for a sleepover? she is 12 and starting to do more on her own, I am just a wreck...
oh, this is just the second sleepover she has been invited to in the year since she has been diagnosed, so she has felt so isolated and felt like she doesn't get invited because of diabetes..
I can relate to you so much. My daughter is 12 too. It is hard to assume a control over BG and not fear about it. However,I believe, once a while having higher numbers is ok if your daughter is having fun. We have couple of friends (parents of similar aged girls) who either work in medical research or have familiarity with testing BG or who do not mind learning and would test her at night. I often send my child to sleepover to their homes and the parent checks and texts me back at 3am. I also make sure my daughter calls me before going to bed and lets me know her numbers just before sleeping. I dont get to sleep much those nights..but its all worth it and nothing gives me more pleasure when I see my kid come home happy. Just a few minutes back me and my husband were talking about training her so she can wake up at 3am and test for herself...now thats going to be a hard on me..I am sure.
Also dont worry about it tonight..she will be fine..as long as she is on the higher side and you know that pump is working...may be you can request the parent of the house to wake her up early in the morning and ask her to check if they cannot do it while she is sleeping.
Can she txt you how it's going, what she's doing bg wise? I'd be concerned if she gets into a "we are eating pizza, it's 450 now..." as it could sort of blow up the slumber party plans were she to start throwing up or whatever? If the correction works and things settle down, it'd probably be no big deal and you'd probably want to know that too? I agree with Wonder about the importance of fun.
thanks for your thoughts, Kennedy just turned 12 also, it looks like puberty is raging forward, we just upped the heck out of her basals and carb ratios and she finally is getting back in range, she did have fun last night too, she was actually ready to come home this morning...
right! kennedy has celiac, so unfortunately she just has to sit there and watch everyone else eat pizza!! But she did finally come down with a massive correction for ketones ( for her) this family barely has cell service, so we had some trouble communicating, I almost went and picked her up at 0100 when it was still 300 ( for the 12th hour) but I made myself wait and at 0300 it was 80 and she had a little snack and went to bed.
thanks everyone for your thought, crisis averted, this morning we were talking after I picked her up and she noticed the impact that peer pressure really had on her, to choose ice cream with a high blood sugar, then to eat it again while everyone else ate it again and pushed her up to 400, the kid would never have made that choice when we were out with family ( trying to let her choose for herself mostly now when we are out)
today she's back in range with virtually doubling her insulin doses, puberty here we go!!
I think too, as long as she understands peer pressure, sometimes in life, especially as a young pre-teen, teenager, those occassional highs are worth it, NOT to feel so isolated with this disease. I think it was a good lesson learned, especially to notice how peer pressure can effect your decisions, but I too lol eat birthday cake for my birthday,and to celebrate co-workers birthdays at work once a month, and if it means a little extra correction, well it was worth it. Goal here though is to realize these are special circumstance things, and not the norm. I think Kennedy is on the right track, and you seem to be supporting her and guiding her well.
I agree with everybody.
You did it right.
That's to say, sleepover + almost no cell coverage = nightmare, I can't imagine anything worse ...
Cheers
I feel her pain. Went through this as a kid... but tell her that, to some extent, it does get a little easier with each passing year. You get more and more used to passing up food that others are eating. And, I don't know, it kind of gives me a feeling of superiority on a certain level, like I have this self-control that so many other people don't have. And in a lot of ways, I'm a lot healthier BECAUSE I'm a T1 and have always had to be so careful with what I eat. It's strange that having a disease like diabetes can make you healthier, but I think many find this to be the case.
YES! We were just talking about it last night! Kennedy is so lucky to be beautiful and have a fantasic figure from dancing so much, there is a group of her friends that are overweight and are always giving her a hard time about " being able to eat anything and not gain weight" but we all know that's not true, she is developing self control, she is starting to get a little humor with it now, as they stuff themselves with junk food during parties, and then turn around and complain about being overweight.