Ugh!!!!!

You know, I guess I should just laugh! I mean the fact that I was going to get to sub today and that tonight starts my fall semester I should have expected some random thing to interupt my plans!!!! Poor Brady! His pumping has been going so good. His blood sugars have been wonderful (for the most part) until lastnight. He came to me at bedtime and said he thought that his inset was coming out, and it was. I made him check his sugar which was 409! Not what you want to see, especially at bedtime. Also, you do not want to change an inset at bedtime and here is why. The normal routine is that I put some numbing medicine on for about an hour, then change it out. Well, it was already 10pm on a Sunday night so we changed it without the numbing medicine. He must have tensed up when we inserted it because as you can see from the picture, there wasn't any insulin going through that little tube! I did not know this until this morning. I was nervous about changing him at bedtime because of everything the doctors have told us about having a bad inset and no insulin going in all night. So I checked every couple of hours through out the night. Well, that is exactly what happened. His blood sugars were in the 400s all night long. He has also been passing ketones. You may not know what that means, it's complicated and not good. We changed it out this morning and he is drinking lots of water. Hopefully things will get better as the day goes on. Please continue to pray for him. It is difficult to see such an active child be limited by this disease. I get upset for him and what he has to deal with. He said, "Moma, sometimes I wish I was just a normal kid." Tear..... what do you say to that?

Pumping Soon!

Many of you know that Brady was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in December. This came just one month after Rylee passed away. Yes, we were devastated. Why? Urrggg! I was mad, mad at God, mad at the situation, mad that Brady had already experienced so much in his young life and now this. I am not ashamed to say that I was mad, because God knows the truth, and the truth sets us free. He healed my mad heart! Now, six months later, we are getting the hang of carb counting and insulin to carb ratios. It is over-whelming, but it has to be done for his well being. He has been taking 4-5 shots a day, about 1825 injections a year, ouch! Brady takes them like no body's business. He doesn't think twice about it! That makes my job a little easier! With the insulin pump, he will have to change his injection sites every 2-3 days. You do the math! Not near as many sticks and pokes! Aside from that, pumping has many benefits when it comes to blood sugar control. The pump is like a mini-computer that works with his body and the insulin to give exactly what he needs. He will still have to do carb counting and check blood sugars. My concern for him is not just what happens right now, but that he is able to accomplish what the Lord has set before him and that he will be able to do this in a healthy body!

-being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ! Philippians 1:6