Today is World Diabetes Day and we are celebrating by wearing BLUE! Will you join us? Wear your blue today and send us a picture to wholefamilystrong@gmail.com. I would love to make a collage of everyone wearing their BLUE!
As part of November being diabetes awareness month I would like to lay out “a day in the life” of what Jeremiah must do daily in order to remain healthy and well. Remember this is not just one day, this is every single day. Some days it’s routine, some days it gets really old for all of us. No matter what, we know God has a perfect plan for Jeremiah and we are thankful for everything He is doing in his life.
Before we begin, a vocab check.
What is a site change?
We do a site change every 3 days, many times sooner due to pump malfunctions. A site change is when Jeremiah has to take off the pump that is connected to his body and put on a new one. This involves injecting insulin into a small pump, looks like half an egg, that will then be taped to his body. I squeeze his skin, press a button, and breathe with him until a needle puts a new catheter under his skin. Sometimes he can get through this just fine. Other times it hurts more than usual and he screams and holds wherever it was injected until the pain passes in a few minutes. There are times that after this process the pump malfunctions and we must immediately repeat the whole process, including putting a new catheter in, even though we just had. Those times are the worst.
A Day In The Life….. From 12am to 12pm
12am- Blood sugar check.
If bg is normal, do nothing-get some sleep.
If bg is high check pump for malfunction and give insulin if everything’s okay.
If pump is messed up, do a site change and give insulin.
If Jeremiah is low wake him up and give him 15 carbs worth of juice. Re-check in 30 minutes and repeat juice if still low.
Once his sugar is in range, finally get some sleep.
3am- Blood sugar check.
If bg is normal, do nothing-get some sleep.
If bg is high check pump for malfunction and give insulin if everything’s okay.
If pump is messed up, do a site change and give insulin.
If Jeremiah is low wake him up and give him 15 carbs worth of juice. Re-check in 30 minutes and repeat juice if still low.
Once his sugar is in range, finally get some sleep.
Around 7am (when he wakes up)- Blood sugar check.
If bg is normal, do nothing.
If bg is high check pump for malfunction and give insulin if everything’s okay.
If pump is messed up, do a site change and give insulin.
If Jeremiah is low, give 15 carbs of food and recheck in 30 minutes.
Repeat in 30 minutes if still low, might be breakfast time by then.
Around 8- Breakfast. Blood Sugar Check.
Check sugar and enter number into his pump.
Count the amount of carbs in breakfast. Usually a SWAG. (Scientific Wild A@# Guess)
Enter into pump and it will give him insulin to cover the food.
If he’s low before eating I will then have to enter the insulin in manually and pray I did it right.
10am- About 1 hour after he finished eating breakfast. Blood Sugar Check.
If bg is normal, do nothing.
If bg is high check pump for malfunction and give insulin if everything’s okay.
If pump is messed up, do a site change and give insulin.
Recheck in 30 minutes and continue to give insulin until within range.
If Jeremiah is low, give 15 carbs of food and recheck in 30 minutes.
Repeat in 30 minutes until number gets in range.
12pm- Lunch time. Blood sugar Check.
Check sugar and enter number into his pump.
Count the amount of carbs in breakfast. Usually a SWAG.
Enter into pump and it will give him insulin to cover the food.
If he’s low before eating I will then have to enter the insulin in manually. Continue reading
