(Photo is courtesy of my friend Ange)
So it's been a crazy, happy, stressful, chaotic 72 hours. On Friday morning I got a call from the head nurse from the Glucose Management Team of Animas. It was a 45 minute call, basically giving me an introduction to the program Anastasia is now in and how her blood sugar will be monitored. I have homework for the next few days from our workbook, and honestly I feel like we have just rewound back to last June. We are starting all over again just with another piece of technology.
Blood sugar is checked upon waking in the morning, 2 hours after every meal, bedtime, midnight and 2 am. If we change her site we have to add another check 2 hours the site is changed. If she has high blood sugar (which she has had) we have to check 2 hours after the high blood sugar to ensure it's going down.
We suspect her carb ratios are not right resulting in the high blood sugars, again like in June its just trying to figure out the right formula for our girl.
Friday afternoon I had to change her site since she had a messy poop and it went all over her site. I diverted from the procedure we were given which resulted in a very stressed out mommy and little girl. Saturday we got to go to Anastasia's friend's birthday party. The difference in her behavior from the party last year and this year was outstanding to me. I have not seen Anastasia so happy in a long time. She had so much fun playing with her friends and showing off her pump.
She is so proud of it. She loves it when I administer her insulin from the remote. When she knows I have done it she smiles and looks at her pump and says "I got my insulin!"
We are so happy she is taking to the pump so well. We ordered a pouch for her so hopefully soon that will come and make dressing her a bit easier (for now no dresses :( ).
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