Preparing for Diabetes life

So, like I said our life has changed.  These are just a few new things we do now!  :)

Our first pharmacy bill to get us started with: insulin, needles, alcohol wipes, lancets, glucose tablets, ketone strips, test strips, and cotton balls.  Boom!

We prepared a box for home and Heather's.

He picked them out.  I wanted him to be excited to have something special to go with this awful disease.  We also bought skittles and KFC honey packets to help with lows.

We went to Children's Hospital in Omaha a week after diagnosis.  They were so great there!  We loved our nurse, Jess.  She also has Type 1.

Having his snack to keep his sugars up.

Killing time.  :)

Beckett stayed at Aunt Gigi's while we were there.  We then got to hang with her a little bit.  :)

I had to wrap my head around Type 1.  I had paperwork to fill out and wanted to create a log book that worked for us.

We visited his preschool class and teachers.  I needed to train the teachers for Hudson's return to class.  They were fantastic.  I am so glad they cared so much for him.  :)

This is upside down, but this is the form we fill out for him.  We were sending in his numbers to Children's often.

My friend got me this prayer cross.  I was so nervous to go back to work and have Heather take care of Hud.  She did wonderful and he felt back to normal.  :)

Now I follow a lot of Type 1 Facebook pages and instagram.  There are great things happening with the research!  In Hud's lifetime it will be amazing to see the changes.

We take a lot of pics of his food so we remember and then can figure his carbs.  We calculate his carbs and divide by a different number for each meal.  Then it gives us the amount of insulin he needs.  He receives his shots in the arms and tummy.

This was his healthy (low carb) birthday snack for preschool.  No more super sugary treats if we can help it.  But he's still a kid, so come on.

He got his Medical bracelet!  

more food

:)

When we were at Children's they were talking about a Dexcom.  It is a device that reads the Blood Glucose level every 5 minutes and can send it to phones.  Our previous schedule was checking Hudson before breakfast, 2 hours later, before lunch, 2 hours later, before supper, before bed, midnight, 2:00am and REPEAT!  

Having the Dexcom will take away from all the pokes...yes please!!!!!  With some convincing to the insurance company and letters from the doctor, we got it!

Hud's new Dexcom G5.

All the needles we have been using.

So excited!

This is what shows up on my phone.  It will alert us for highs and lows.

We have made great strides to help Hudson continue on as usual.  He is so good about asking about food he eats.  With his Dexcom, he has a receiver in his pocket.  It will vibrate and make sounds for highs and lows and he knows to come to us.  I am so proud of him!  This stinks, but he doesn't let it bother him.  We are in the "honeymoon" phase they warned us about.  So, his pancreas is kicking in and giving him insulin at times.  That means that at some point he will be totally reliant on insulin and we will be giving more shots through out the day.  Not ready for that, but we can do it!

Thanks for reading and continue to pray for the research for Type 1 Diabetes!

~~~Abby