Happy 4th of July

We have a way of celebrating holidays in our family....something usually happens. Take last Christmas for example. Zach got the flu. We got the flu shot and the flu. Perfect. I was fairly new to sick day plans, but we made it through. No real ketones and no hospital stays. Huge! In type 1 diabetes land. Here it is the 4th of July. Zach has a typical everyday breakfast. Frozen waffles and milk. Easy enough right. Wrong, very wrong. Type 1 has another thing is store for us. He eats all is well and the CGM goes up to 200 ish. Normal for just after breakfast. An hour later, Zach is low. Ok, juice.....check...huh...bg just barely went down instead of up. Two packages of smarties later....hmmm, still not going up. WTH??? Zach gets a sucker now. Ok, bg is up over 100, we can head out. We are headed to my parents for their BBQ. The kids have a blast every year. They put out this huge inflatable slide and my Dad bought the kids a blow up larger pool. We get in the car and Zach is very irritable, cranky, not like him. Check him as the CGM will not go up.....ug, 63 and lower and lower....He is 85. Ok, but still.....More candy..... We get to my parents house and Zach still has about .5 unit on board according to the pump. I give him 17g more.... This should get us where we need to be. Wrong......15 min later 58. Come on. I was about to pull my hair out. Zach gets regular pop. Something that never happens. I have no idea what happened or why oh why he was falling so fast. I estimated we gave him 100 g of carbs to bring his bg stable. He didn't have that much carbs for breakfast. WTH. I don't know why. Type 1 had it's own agenda today. I shutter to think what would have happened had be been anywhere else. What if he was at school? What you don't know is my Zach is hypoglycemic unaware. He does not feel his lows and does not look any different. We had a ton of lows today and no one could tell, not even me. Now, that is scary. I can usually see it. Hypoglycemia can cause, seizures, loss of balance and motor control, loss of cognitive function, and death. Yep, crap......right? We have the Omnipod insulin pump. It is mighty fabulous. However, all insulin pumps have their quirks right now. Zach's gave us the tone of death this afternoon. It is the high pitched sweakey sound (I know you all thought of Christmas Vacation, lol) an Omnipod gives out when there is an error. In this case, occlusion insulin delivery stopped and we MUST change it NOW. Poor Zach has to stop playing again for a pod change. Then, our Dexcom bites it too for the day, dreaded....question marks and hour glasses. Signs of death there too. Sure enough, it never came back and smart me, I remembered to bring a replacement. Two hours later the CGM is back after losing it basically the whole day. Not a good day to lose reception. I am wiped. No sleep for the weary here though. It is 1AM and despite very correcting his blood sugar twice, his bg is now over 300 and climbing one arrow up per Dex. Thus, I must go and change the site (which just got changed as mentioned above........), get some new insulin out of the fridge to put in the pod because I am questioning this vial....Maybe it went bad. It has been hot. Needless to say, I must go. Another ketone check, another site change, at least two bg checks (pricking his little fingers), and a shot to bring down the bg to a normal range. I am positive those smores he ate tonight, did me in....sigh...That is another topic for another day.

We need a cure!