She is still on manual injections to control her blood sugar levels, and she usually has to test her BS levels 4-5 times a day.
Her carbohydrate to insulin ratio is currently at :
Breakfast 1:7
Lunch 1:6
Dinner 1:7
She takes Humalog as her short acting insulin at mealtimes and uses the pen.
Her long acting insulin, Lantus, is taken only at bedtime.
She is currently on 18 units daily, and takes that by syringe.
Her endocrinologist mentioned today that he wants her to get prepared to move to the pump. We just so do not want to do that. She doesn't want it and I don't want to have to keep up with it. I hope he doesn't demand this of us, or treat us like we're idiots for wanting to stick with the insulin delivery system that we are most comfortable with and can keep good control of her BS levels with.
Her A1C level was 7.7 today!!!
That's a great number, and one we've been camping out on for nearly 6 months now!!
For those not familiar with this diabetic lingo, the A1C number gives you a ballpark figure
of your blood sugar levels for the last 3 months.
Last month she had her bi-annual visit to the dentist. She had a giant cavity on one of her childhood molars, but the dentist wasn't about to go to the expense of filling it since it was loose and on its way out anyway. That puppy came out in church yesterday morning.
She also had her very first visit with our ophthalmologist last week. She had been doing funny things with her eyes all-of-a-sudden, and couldn't tell us why. She would turn her head and look out the corners of her eyes, or would tilt her head down and look out the tops of her eyes. She never scratched at her eyes or complained they were itching even mildly. We waited for about a week after she stopped doing this, but then she started up again. Our eye doctor did a very thorough exam and found nothing wrong with her eyes except for some new allergies that were bothering her. Some eye allergy drops will fix the itching that was making her feel like she had to look out the corner of her eyes. Her vision is perfect and he even said she has absolutely no prescription whatsoever!! He dilated her pupils to get pictures of her retinas so he would have a baseline idea of what her eyes look like normally in case there are any changes related to her diabetes. He also showed us pictures of the diabetic eye of a person who was not in good control of their blood sugar levels. Some pretty scary stuff!!
This week I will be talking at length about some dietary changes that I have made around our house in hopes of better managing more of Grant's ADHD issues. One of the surprising, unexpected benefits has been the enormous change in Ashlyn's blood sugar levels. In the last 2-3 weeks since making some of these dietary changes, her blood sugar levels have almost always been in her normal ranges (80-150) where before we were chasing down high levels (225-400) almost EVERY time she tested. I'm so excited about that and hoping that at her next endocrinologist visit in late August, we'll find her A1C level even lower!!!!
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