Kaitlyn Carbs Counts for Vanderbilt Day

Tuesday will be a long day at Vanderbilt. Kaitlyn has her oral glucose tolerance test from 9 am until almost 1 pm. Andrew sees the doctor at 1:40. Then he sees a certified nutritional counselor at 4:00 for an electrodermal screening. It should be interesting. We were told that Kaitlyn needs to eat at least 150g of carbs per day for the three days leading up to her test. She decided that she wanted to carb count this time. She hit 150g before dinner today! Much of that is due to some mint chocolate hot cocoa mix that Gene brought home from one of his students. She also had a juice pouch & chips after cheerleading today.

I'm a little nervous about Tuesday. I hope Andrew's A1c will be good. We have struggled for awhile trying to make the changes that were recommended after the iPro work for Andrew. We finally quit & went back to what we were doing before except for pre-bolusing at least part of all meals. I'm not sure how all that will affect the A1c. After Kaitlyn's last OGTT, we got a call saying that everything had checked out just fine. It was the first time that was the only news & I realized that was the purpose of the call. It is just a little chilling to realize that one of these visits could yield a more upsetting result. She is doing great & showing no symptoms, so I expect no problems. She even checked her BG a few weeks ago. She came & asked me, "Isn't thirst one the symptoms?" I told her it was, but it is also normal to be thirsty sometimes. She checked just to be sure & her BG was perfectly normal.