Sweet Summer

Summer was a wonderful time of healing & rest. Andrew loved to sleep late & eat a late breakfast, so we had lots of opportunities to tweak his morning basal rates. It was a relaxing time for all of us. We had to relearn what the pool would do to his BG since he took his pump off to swim. The first time that he went swimming, he didn't want his site to show. Then he went to camp & most of the kids had sites showing. From then on, he didn't care if it showed at our neighborhood pool. He wore a swimshirt when he went to a birthday swim party. Some friends at church had a backyard Bible club at the end of the summer. I let the kids go without me & gave them a cell phone to call if they needed anything. The house wasn't far away & it was only 2 hours long. There was a snack that Andrew ate & they carb counted. They can read labels & had a book for other things. I think they called me on the homemade cookies. One day, he said that he ate cookies & a lollipop for snack. I wasn't thrilled, but he had carb counted it well & bolused for it. His BG was doing fine. Andrew will have to live with this disease until they find a cure. Learning to manage temptations & keep his BG in line is an important skill. Hopefully, he won't always think cookies & lollipops are a snack. In the meantime, Kaitlyn & Andrew loved being trusted & seemed honest when telling us what they had done when I picked them up. It was a good learning experience.