The New Weekly Routine

Life with diabetes can be quite overwhelming and hectic. It feels like we live form meal to meal, finger pop to finger pop, and correction routine follows. I have been getting up at 2 am and sometimes more to check AGP's blood sugar levels (aka BSL). This does not make for restful, refreshing sleep. All this means is one slow to get started mommy.

At least once a week, I call the Diabetes Clinic at Children's Hospital in Birmingham to report AGP's BSL for each day. I call and leave a message for a nurse educator to call me back. I wait for the call. We report bsl, discuss dosage, and carb grams eaten at each meal. As you can imagine these are some very entertaining phone calls. We discuss trends/patterns over the week. I ask any questions I have and then the nurse reports the information to the doctor. Then I wait some more. There is no set time for the nurse educators to meet with doctor on call - so it is a waiting game.

With the exception of waiting for calls - I must say everyone I have been in contact with at the Diabetes Clinic has been wonderful. They are kind, caring, and patient with mom's of newly diagnosed type i diabetics.

I have several friends that offer on the spot support and advice. Tiffany has been living this life for 23 years and Connie has been the mommy of a diabetic life for almost as long. Their support has been unbelievable comforting and helpful. They don't even laugh at all my dumb questions! Thank you both!!!!