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Gumball Contest

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You know those contest where they put items like gumballs into a container and they see who can guess how many gumballs are in the container.... well here is the Syringe Contest-- Guess how many shots Cole has received in the past 4 months   I am of course kidding... Too depressing to count how many shots the poor guy has received in the past few months.  I seriously need to learn the proper way to dispose of these suckers!

Daycare babies... Sick all the time

I am pretty sure Robert and Cole have come up with an evil plan that every time Robert goes out of town Cole will get sick.   I would have liked to think that Cole would not play along with what I am sure is Robert’s evil plan, but the past few times it appears that Cole likes his dad’s plan.   I can picture then both doing the evil laugh together. So Thursday, Robert left for Dallas and Friday Cole came down with a high fever.   I was checking him every 3 hours and giving him corrections.   Somehow even though Cole was in the 300s with his blood glucose level we managed to keep the ketones levels to trace or small.   Thank GOD!   That is until tonight.   Of course they go up to large amounts.   I was trying to pass them off as moderate but I walked around showing my mom and dad the pee strip and they both said it looked more like large.   UGH!!   I texted Robert to let him know again how happy I was that he was out of town.   I then called the after-hours diabetic line to spea

Our 30 hour vacation... Yep it was GREAT

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We had Robert’s lovely trip to Rockport, TX the other week, so this past weekend was my trip to Galveston, TX.   Thursday the 11 th was Cole’s visit with his endo doctor.   The doctor decided it was best to change Cole’s long lasting insulin from a night shot of Lantus to a day shot of Levemir.   Friday the 12 th was our first day to try this .   We knew his numbers were going to be all over the place so I was second guessing whether or not we should go on our trip.   We decided to go to Galveston anyway and left Friday afternoon.   We arrived in time to go to bed.   At 2:00am we checked Cole’s bg level.   I don’t recall now what it was but it must have been normal because we did not give a correction shot.   At about 3:30 Cole began to cough.   Cole sleeps on his stomach and was coughing from that position.   I jumped up and sat him up (we were all sleeping in the same bed on this trip).   I sat him up and he began to throw up.   It wasn’t a lot of throw up just enough to scar

First Trip with the big D

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  Our first trip with the big D… and I don’t mean divorce or Dallas :   ) We recently took our first trip since Cole has been diagnosed with diabetes.   It went pretty well, besides the packing.   Not only did I have to make sure I packed everyone’s clothes, towels, sheets, blankets, pillows , water toys, life jacket, etc…. I had to make sure I packed the insulin bottles, the syringes, alcohol wipes, lancets, glucose meter, his frio bags to keep the insulin cool, test strips, cotton balls, ketones strips (as I type that I realize I forgot the ketone strips, thankfully we did not need them).   Oh the joys of packing.   Oh and not to mention his carb free snacks.   A trip isn’t complete without lunch meat and cheese.   I was so concerned with making sure I brought all his diabetes stuff, I forgot his swim diapers and his toothbrush and toothpaste… but I guess that’s what Walmart is for.   So we make our first stop on our road trip to Rockport.   We decided to stop and eat.