Mitch's diabetes - progress update

After Friday's events we spent the weekend doing fairly regular blood glucose tests. Mitch is such a good boy and is being so brave and good about it. All we have to say now is "Which finger?" and he offers up one (usually the same one so we have to suggest a different one!) and then he helps take out the little test strip and put it in his glucometer. He still is not fond of us pricking his finger (no surprise there) but is being such a good boy about it. We have had to bribe him a couple of times, once with a toy car and normally with a (sugar free) lolly. We think it is still a bit of novelty at the moment,  but hopefully he will remain okay about it when the novelty wears off.

His tests over the weekend were generally pretty good. They were slightly higher than they should have been, but none were dangerously high, which means he is somewhat borderline. We also changed his diet quite a bit to cut out a lot of the sugar he had been inadvertently eating (did you know Uncle Tobys sweetened muesli is 30% sugar!) so that in itself may be contributing to a bit of a honeymoon effect (that is the term used whereby after being diagnosed with diabetes a change in diet or commencement of insulin use gives the pancreas a "rest" and allows any still active cells to produce insulin, it is only a honeymoon period though and eventually ends) with his pancreas. Obviously we will know more later in the week when we get the results of the blood tests performed in hospital.

Meeks had to tell Mitch's Pre-School about it today. Their policy is that they will do blood glucose tests on Mitch at a prescribed time each day or when his behaviour is unusual and if there are any issues will ring Meeks. They will not however administer insulin, if it comes to that, which we're fine about. Overall that is a pretty good situation. Some Pre-Schools wont even do blood tests.

It is amazing how much Meeks and I have to learn about given Meeks has been a diabetic for so long. Having a small child with diabetes is a completely different situation from when she developed it as a teenager.