Pacifiers and Insulin

So the other day my parents shared a video on facebook from the Saving Luke facebook page.  Saving Luke is another Type 1 diabetic child that has a diabetic alert dog.  His mother runs the FB page and made a video about her son and their experience to raise awareness about Type 1.  Well I see the video shared on my parents page so I decided to play it.  Let me set the scene up for you... I am laying in bed with the computer typing out donation request for our benefit to raise funds for Cole's diabetic alert dog.  I take a break to look at FB and see my parents post.  I click on the video and start watching.... She starts by showing a picture of her son and saying that he came close to dying when he was 2.  Well that hits close to home.  Cole was 13 months when he was transported to the ER by ambulance. She talks about how Type 1 there is no cure and he will always have it.  How he gets finger pokes and injections all the time.  Then it moves on to without insulin he will die.

We got to drive down to Jasper, TX where Drey’s Alert Dogs is located yesterday.   We made the 4 ½ hour drive down there and got there in time to check into the hotel.   We decided since Cole had been stuck in the car for 4 ½ hours we would let him go to the pool for a few minutes.   So we took Cole to the swimming pool which was nice and warm.   It had a little rock fountain which Cole found amusing.   He loved to go over and splash on it.   For once we were not able to drag Cole out of the pool.   Guessing since it was more like bath water than freezing cold pool water.   Once inside we checked his BG level.   73… seriously.   The child is always high and now before bed he is 73.   (He is supposed to be much higher for bed time).   Robert starts freaking out that if we give him the whole 1.5 units of levemir (long lasting insulin) that we will definitely kill him in his sleep.   This was only going to be our second night of 1.5 units.   We had been giving 1 unit.   Robert didn’t