Steady but not the steady I like to see...

Just when you think everything is "controlled", D likes to come up and rear it's ugly head to let you know it's in charge, and not you.  We went to bed at an "89" what a beautiful number that is. Testing throughout the night showed a steady line between 233-230, and we woke up at 231. Not the steady that I like to see. Not to mention but I think I'm going to have to go in and "Teach" his school nurse more about his type of diabetes. She didn't want to give him insulin when he was at 80, and just wanted to give him his snack of 15g Carbs. ( That I handled). Then found out from Clifford after he dropped low shortly after he had his shot and snack at school that he didn't finish all his snack because the nurse told him not to eat it all. To make sure he had stuff with him on the bus in case he went low, yet she gave him the full dose of Humalog... I informed her he has things with him in case he would go low and he needs to eat his WHOLE snack.

First Post...

I've been trying to figure out where to start since I decided I was going to create a blog about living with T1 Diabetes as a family. I guess the best starting point would be to talk about how we got into the "Diabetes Club" so to say. Cliffy who is 6 years old, had gotten sick. I thought he had the flu during the week as he was getting sick, thirsty, weak, not wanting to do anything, etc. Little did I know what that virus was leading into. He went with his dad for visitation that weekend. I got phone call after phone call that he was being taken to the hospital ER and they thought he had Type 1 diabetes. At this time I didn't know what was going on or what to expect. He was transferred to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, and when we got there my boy was laying there out of it sleeping, not knowing what was going on, and literally looking like he was dying. I didn't know it until a little later that he was admitted DKA. This was back in February of this year. We have come a long way in 7 short months on caring for his diabetes and how much we know. He at his last clinic had an A1C of 6.9, and is still on 5-6 MDI's, and 6-8 finger pricks daily. But we are slowly moving to taking the steps to starting the pump. He has since started 1st grade at a public school and loves it. Everything is going well except he is still getting high number's while at school, and I haven't pinpointed the reasoning for that. I truly have a different outlook on life now and try to live each day, day by day, and not let a day go by without telling my children how much I love them.