The Hannen Family

Shealyn went for an appt with her Endo on Friday. The appt. itself was an absolute disaster as she suddenly needed a pump site change and spiked to over 450 BG. Considering she shouldn’t really even cross 200, that was bad territory for her. I knew something was wrong when she was throwing down screaming on the floor of the lab because the tech simply wanted to take her blood pressure. Lol…. NOT typical behavior for Shealyn. Give me a finger please.. time for a test! =) After holding her down and fighting with a little body that suddenly seemed to have at least 8 limbs, I got a new site in and an insulin correction quickly brought her back to normal and her happy little self. She couldn’t understand why everyone kept checking on her and asking if things were alright. Poor kid didn’t even know she had lost control…

The GOOD part is that her A1C level results came back today. I was quite impressed to get a call from the Endo on a Sunday evening! A1C basically gives you the average blood glucose reading from the past 3 months. At diagnosis in February, she was a 10.0… not good! Now, she is a 7.7 and he was quite impressed with it. Yahooooooo!! That is a great level for someone her age and especially good for someone so soon after diagnosis.

A big pat on the back to Louie and I if I may do so! Lol We have been very careful with carb counting, weighing her food, giving correction boluses, watching activity level, etc. It’s nice to see something concrete to show our work has been worth it! An A1C near 7 shows good control and means less likely to have other physical complications that Diabetes can lead to.

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