Mommies and Daddies.. NEVER under estimate your toddler! LOL

[TracieandJim]

Here I am gearing up to dilute. I have my dilution supplies, got my fax from the CDE on how to use these supplies. I call the CDE for how much to dose DS. While I am waiting on the return call I get a call from the sitter....

The sitter: Tracie, Samuel's BG at snack was 60. I gave him 2 tsp of honey and he looked at me and laughed! I swear he thinks Im nuts!

Me: LOL. well. Yes I think we are all nuts. Call me back in 15 min. if he doesn't come up.

.. She never called...

I pick up the boys from the sitter. Its dinner time. They are both being picky. PB&J for both of them. D-DS iBG is 130 (WOO HOO) but he doesnt want to eat. Non D-DS woofs it down and a banana. Cool. D-DS is still refusing to eat but I manage to get half his carbs in him and decide that its taken an hour to do it so he's only getting half of his scheduled insulin tonight. He's supposed to have 1 unit with 35 carbs. Well, I gave him .5 and let him down from the table. Bedtime BG 124. WOO HOO. but.. ARRGGG. Gave him his bedtime snack and lantus and now Im sitting here thinking. That turkey! For 2 weeks he has been baffling me on highs n lows and we very nearly started diluting and 2nite he tricks me and has good #s. :D

Dont trust em. Dont do it! They will turn on the minute you throw your hands up. Gotta love em. Such angels ya know!

[tiffanie1717]

Diabetes does that too! Just when you have it figured out, it completely changes! So add kids to the mix and we're all doomed! :) haha

[Lisa P.]

I've got a toddler with highs and lows and have been considering diluting too, but am scared of it. You think if I made whirring noises over the printer and pretended to get a fax, got out a bunch of vials and syringes and pretended to be diluting, it would trick her and she'd get into target range?

[tiffanie1717]

I've got a toddler with highs and lows and have been considering diluting too, but am scared of it. You think if I made whirring noises over the printer and pretended to get a fax, got out a bunch of vials and syringes and pretended to be diluting, it would trick her and she'd get into target range?

Possibly! They seem to always do the unexpected!! :)

My DD Kylie was 31 lbs at 4 yrs old when she was dx in May. She was put right on diluted. It works like a charm. Don't be afraid of it. Just ask your endo about it.

[Lisa P.]

I want it, but I'm scared to death. The pharmacy we work with has some very, very nice people, but we've had to "teach" them a lot -- they had never had a request for syringes with the half unit markings, for example. They don't know anything about meters that test blood ketones, and they had the meter but not the strips (sugar or ketones). I'm really afraid of getting someone there to dilute insulin, and something going wrong. Do you guys do it yourselves? Are you math challenged, like me?

[Mom2Boys]

We use diluted insulin, but our hospital pharmacy dilutes it for us. I asked our CDE and she said that we aren't allowed to dilute it ourselves. I'd much rather do it on our own though! I hate relying on someone else to do it properly--so far no issues though!