My husband went away this weekend for the first time in a long time. It's been fairly stressful lately so it was good that at least one of us had a breather. On Saturday morning I took all three kids to the park with some friends. We were there about 2 hours and Levi came up and said "food". He'd been playing pretty hard so I decided to test him. He was 45! Normal range for regular kids is 70-120. Usually Levi is around 150 during the day. Going this low taught me a lesson. I wasn't really prepared. I had 3 hershey kisses with me and 1/2 of his apple from the morning. I totally forgot that I had a juice box in the car. I got his sugars up but he went low throughout the day. It was the first time that my mom babysat. I had a princess party for my 4 year old. He went low for her and she panicked. It's like the blind leading the blind around here. I checked him at 9:00 pm too after he had been asleep for a few hours. He was 62 so I gave him juice. He loved that! Thankfully his numbers went up and I only checked him at 11 pm and 3 am. I feel like I have a newborn again.
On a more positive note, in the last 2 days, there have been 3 times that Levi did not cry when he got his shots. What a relief! I hated having to hold him down while he cried. Nothing tears at your heart like hurting your child. I HATED IT. We went out to Japanese food and after we ate, he just stood on his chair and let us give him both shots. I was so proud of him. I'm thinking of starting some kind of reward chart for him. I still worry every moment. I wake up thinking of diabetes and I go to bed thinking about it. I hate diabetes.
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