We picked up Andrew's long list of medical supplies the next morning, took them home to organize them, and then prepared a box for the school nurse. We walked in with Andrew, his school orders, and all the supplies and met the school nurse for the first time. She looked over his orders, asked a few questions, and then told us that she didn't feel comfortable just glancing at new orders like this & being able to keep our son safe. We ended up leaving with Andrew. I remember looking at Gene & commenting, "We're not in Kansas anymore!"
In all fairness to the nurse, who we came to dearly love, we must have been a school nurse's worst nightmare. We walked in with Andrew, fresh from the hospital, with BG still running in the four or five hundreds. He had never had a low blood sugar in his life so he wouldn't recognize one and he had orders that said let him eat whatever he wanted & give him 2u of insulin! When she asked about carb ratios, we didn't know what she was talking about. When we left, she called Vanderbilt. They explained how we were still being trained & would learn about carb ratios in a couple days.
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