Love, love, LOVE the jello to tree analogy! and great point about what percentage is considered control.
Jake called from school yesterday. It was time to check his bfast pp bs and he was out of strips. He goes to a school that is in the next town...
We aim for 90-140 at bedtime. If under 90, I give a 15g CHO snack. If over 140, I correct with whatever the pump says. His ISF is pretty much...
At home, we use 4 oz real juice or coke most often. At school, after much searching, I have found 15 g carb juice boxes. YAY! Most boxes have...
Ok, Jake's I:C's work pretty good most of the time. We have target carbs per meal per our endo...30-60gm per meal. We get good 2 hour and 4 hour...
I am thankful to the Johnson family for all their contributions to diabetes research and management. I am grateful for their support of the...
No, welcomed...not totally trusting at first...but not a cure. As the above poster said, I wanna hear "We USED to have diabetes!"
If she wants a pump, she needs to know that most endos require a MINIMUM of 4 blood sugar checks each day because the risk of a bad site and DKA...
I feel your pain. I'm up tonight waiting on a recheck for a correction bolus. Not in the mood to sleep to just wake back up...I've decided to...
Jake's bg is 328. No blood ketones. No illness. I think it was a site issue, so we did a site change and a correction bolus. Time to recheck...
most kiddos with T1 can qualify for state medicaid due to lifelong medical condition. that can pick up the part of the pump that private ins...
We use iv prep and let it dry until it is tacky. They hold pretty good. Jake is allergic to tegaderm, etc...but I bought a box of Flextape on...
I hated the pump for about a week. The old saying is that it takes 21 days to make a habit. It got easier by week 3 for sure. Neither Jake nor...
My animas rep is awesome. I'll be glad to give her your name and number if you want and maybe she can hook you up with someone more like her??...
Jake has a very low basal...3 units per 24 hours (daytime is 0.100 units per hour). I've talked with our CDE about just taking a novo pen into...
BCBS of Mississippi State Employee Plan Dexcom 10 year old T1 on Animas pump Only covered at 60% as it is out of network We are waiting for...
Animas Ping since October 2008...no probs...no replacements
I need a couple of boxes of these. I have some extra multiclix barrels, contour strips, animas 6mm inset, IV prep, blood ketone strips, unisolve....
We tried it but ended up just using our contour. Remote is in a box somewhere.
Jake just came and told me he has a lump under his left nipple that is sore. I know gynecomyastia is common at puberty onset and he is having...
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