Daniel has been high today. He corrected at lunch, and came down in the afternoon, but popped right back up after dinner. He is fighting a cold.
I look at his logbook, and see how the numbers ebb and flow. We've been through a few low days, and now he is peaking again. I stand aside, watch the patterns, and try not to take his peaks and valleys personally. If anyone has figured out how to use mind control to manage your child's bg numbers, please let me know. Perhaps hypnotism. "Your blood sugar is stabilizing...
S T A B I L I Z E...
S T A B I L I Z E..."
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Sometimes you just have to ride that wave. I know it's not the greatest advice, but sometimes diabetes just doesn't make sense. So don't feel bad about the numbers, try to get what you can from them and move on to the next ones.
Thanks for checking out those links. I just can't believe that national news would supply statements like that.
Our endo said we had to sit back for a couple days and watch the trends. Control freak that I am, I like to make the numbers change RIGHT NOW. We control what we can, and for the rest, we have to take a deeeeep breath.
I think the national news is so fixated on obesity in America leading to Type 2 & other health problems, that they have the tendency to gloss right over Type 1. It is frustrating.
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