Dada's pump

This is what is called her "site". This we have to change every 3 days. It is fairly painless to insert. It's more uncomfortable then pain. If you look at the picture good, you can see a red tiny dot below the site. This is from her last site. When we took the old 1 out, there was this scar there. I am afraid that when she gets older, her stomach will be full of these.


This is her pump. She wanted a pink 1 and that is what she got. The pink part is actually called a skin. You can change these when you want.

We went yesterday to Madison and got her started on her insulin. It went really smoothly except for the fact that about an hour into our trip to Madison, Dada started vomiting!! We had no idea that she didn't feel well before we left. She had eaten a good breakfast and was fighting with her brother as usual!! :) She puked twice in the car before we got to the doc and then once while we were in the office! I felt horrible for even being there, but we needed to switch her over to insulin! She slept the whole way home, and then when we got home, she wanted some soup. So I made tomato soup and grilled cheese for supper. She ate some of that. I thought she was going to keep it down, but 2 hours later, she drank some water and then threw up. Thankfully that was the last time.

I set the alarm to check her sugar about 3 last night. I never do this, but I thought with just switching her to insulin, and her being sick, I thought it would be a good idea. I'm glad I did, because she was 46!!( I took her pump off b/c I didn't want her getting more insulin being so low!!) I gave her some juice(after she chugged her juice, she immediately asked where her bucket was. I didn't think that was a good sign. :) ) I then checked her again 15 min later, and she was only 50. So I then resorted to Mountain Dew. That brought her sugar up! I checked her sugar 15 min later and it was 66. So I gave her a little but more pop, and then went to bed. Jeremy checked her at 6:30 when he woke up and she was 270. We then put her pump back on.