Tate Update

I haven't written in awhile.  Tate is still doing well, but these past few months have not been as good as the previous month as far as his glucose levels go.  He has been running much higher than before and is more inconsistent.  I don't feel like we have had as much control.  He has had several colds and recently was sick with a fever...both will cause him to run high.

Most recently, we have been teaching Tucker how to measure Tate's insulin and to give him his shot.  He has done AWESOME!!  He can do it!!!  Now we are working on the calculations.  Other than Danielle, Tucker is the only other person that has given him shots.  Sometimes, Tate doesn't want Tucker to do it and will throw a fit...that makes it really hard to give a shot successfully.  At this point, Ty doesn't want anything to do with it.  Needles/shots/anything medical freak him out!

I feel like we have come so far and have learned so much.  However, sometimes, I still get very overwhelmed.  For example, today I totally messed up.  I gave him too much insulin...a lot too much!  I know we all make mistakes, but this is not an area that I feel like I can mess up. Especially the way I did.  Thank goodness I realized it within about 10 minutes and was able to figure out how many carbs he need to eat to reverse what I did, and thank goodness he willingly ate the granola bar I gave him (this was right after he ate dinner, so he wasn't really hungry).  Here's what I said to him, "Tate, Mommy gave you too much insulin so I need you to eat this granola bar so that you don't go too low."  He said, "Ok." and ate the granola bar.  I am so blessed!!!!!