Camp Was Great!

Finally, I got to see Andrew! It was so good to see him! He had so much fun! He had enjoyed boating, fishing, archery, rifles, swimming, ropes courses, tubing, crafts, games, & more. Many of those things he had never done before. He walked with a new confidence too. He had learned that he was okay without us & he had felt completely normal for a week. Everyone had taken their BG, had highs or lows, counted carbs, and it was just a normal part of life. My prayer had been for him as he got site changes. God answered that prayer through his problems & frequent site changes! He learned to put in his own site & had learned by observing his new friends how to handle sites in new places. Prior to camp, we were rotating sites around his stomach & rear. His friends used their arms for sites too, so Andrew tried it & loves it! They taught him how to drop the tubing down in his clothes to make it work. His friends used their thighs too, so Andrew tried that when he got home. What would have been a battle to make him try at home came naturally when he saw other kids do what was normal for them. The bad BG numbers from camp are long gone, but the positive affects of being around other diabetic kids are still here. It was one more reminder that life is more than numbers. Camp was good for Andrew!