I’m no longer afraid of milk!
Scott Benner
We arrived home last night after Cole’s baseball practice around 9 pm. I was answering an email when I heard Arden say the following, “Dad can I have this”. Arden had been complaining about being thirsty before we left baseball so I expected to see a can of diet iced tea or a diet soda in her hand but when I turned around I saw what can only be described as a horror.
She was holding milk and
“Trust the pump” is my mini-mantra this week.
Things have changed in regards to how insulin is measured and delivered so I have to trust the numbers that we’ve entered into the pump and the math that it’s doing based on them. So I trusted the pump, mixed a tablespoon of pink liquid sugar into a glass of milk and gave Arden the insulin that the pump indicated was proper. I would have never, let me repeat never have felt comfortable giving Arden that much insulin before bed in the past and I would have stayed up all night checking and rechecking her blood glucose if I did. My expectation would have been that I’d either have to wake her up to eat (if I gave her too much insulin) or administer more insulin and sit up all night checking her BG (if I gave her too little). That however seems happily to be a thing of the past!
This morning when I checked Arden’s BG at 8 am she was 108! You may have no idea why so I’ll tell you but typing that last sentence makes me so happy that I could cry. Arden got to drink milk like a normal kid, I got to wake up this morning not exhausted like a normal person and the hours that fell in between those two seemingly innocuous events didn’t hurt my little girl’s body. There was no sugar in her blood last night hurling her towards kidney failure, heart disease, amputation, blindness or early death.
Today because of the OmniPod milk is just milk, yesterday it may as well have been rat poison.
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AmyK
Oh, how I can relate! My daughter's insulin start on the OmniPod was just a week ago today, and this weekend, after nine months of my waking her to eat breakfast at 6:00am, she slept until almost 9:00am...and her BG was in range! - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 02:07 AM
Tandy
Reading this made me tear up! My son has been pumping for over a year now and I remember the moment he got to eat without worry even more emotionally than I remember 9/11. What an amazing moment! - Friday, November 5, 2010 - 10:33 PM
Scott
Thank you both for reading and for commenting! - Monday, November 8, 2010 - 07:22 PM