Well Sunday we came home from Grand Rapids - AWESOME time and got to see all the grand parents up there and have a fish fry dinner and spend some good quality time with family!! Elsie's Grandma & Grandpa Hunt travel to Arizona for the winter (too bad for them right?!?) and we wanted to see them before they leave November 20th! It was such a great time.
Elsie seemed a little irritable and quiet Sunday night at home - not her usual. So we checked her temperature. She was 101.3 when we checked her! No symptoms just the fever. So we gave her ibuprofen. At this point she's on the Dexcom system and for SOME reason Acetaminophen interacts with the sensor for some reason and it can give false high blood glucose readings (meaning her sugars are in fact not nearly as high as the Dexcom says they are) so we have opted for no Tylenol just to be on the safe side and the only real cause for pain as of late was her teeth and ibuprofen worked better for that anyway. So we gave it to her and she seemed OK - VERY lazy and cuddly on Monday. Fever staying around 102.5ish even with ibuprofen. So her fever kept creeping and it was bedtime and she wasn't due for medicine for 3 more hours and her temperature was 102.7 We opted to buy Tylenol and give it to her - I think that false high readings were an understatement!! The Dexcom said she was off the chart high (over 400) which I assure you she was NOT - it was crazy never seen anything like it!!
Last night reminded us why we stopped alternating Tylenol and ibuprofen every three hours for Elsie - something about it makes her miserable!! I think it makes her feel like that medicine head feeling... She was up whining about every 2 hours sometimes more than that!! It was awful!! I felt horrible for her we both did!! So off to the doctor today - and of course, NOTHING to report!! Ears look good a little fluid (to be expected) not a whole lot of drainage (some to be expected) lymph nodes not too swollen - JUST this pretty substantial fever with no major symptoms. Apparently this is NOT the first case to walk through our doctors doors either - so he wasn't freaked out (moms on the other hand are super confused and freaked) We are coming up on 24 hours of this fever that won't break and a daughter that is really showing no signs of anything wrong - she's just a little lazy which is out of character.
So tonight she finally (we think) broke this damn thing! She had very little ibuprofen today. She basically refused it and we are thinking it was her way of saying - let me fight this off myself... So we allowed it to happen kept monitoring the fever every few hours or so and she went to bed FEVER FREE - first time in two days!!! Tomorrow I am going to be lysoling the house again - to get rid of any crazy resilient little virus cells!! We are going to be a healthy household again!! Elsie's friend Rowland can come back and play!! Life will get back our crazy form of normalcy.
As with any sickness she will come across her blood sugars will be a sure sign something is going on. She ran with high sugars that didn't seem to make sense before the fever started (I even thought about needing to change her basal insulin rate), then was running a little lower than her normal once it came on, then stayed a little high the whole time. With her appetite not being great higher sugars are actually good it means that we can give her insulin which is a growth hormone and helps her fight off infections naturally in her body. We are very proud we made it through this little bout of sickness without needing to call our diabetic educator. We handled it like pros!! I think Noreen would be proud!!
Thank you to everyone who prayed for Elsie to get better and/or sent well wishes to her!! They were needed and they have helped!! Hoping to have our sweet little lady back tomorrow!!
P.S. Elsie kissed my belly (kissed the baby) today for the first time - I think she's starting to grow on the idea of the baby!! The girls at the doctors office asked her if it was a boy or girl (she said boy - we don't know yet FYI) and they asked what "his" name is and she said "Go Home" haha!! She's hilarious!!
Take care!
McKenzie, Sarah, Elsie & Baby too!!
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Fall Season & Loving it!!
We had an appointment in August and we discovered that her A1c was 8.3 which is slightly up from the July reading BUT all in all its still amazing for her age!! Kids her age are usually running an A1c of at least 9-10%. So we're doing amazing and she's developing amazing and she's growing like a weed!! She grew 2 inches in 4 months!! That's crazy!!
Insulin is also growth hormone normally made within your body and without her body producing it for her. Which is why it is important for us to NOT cut carbs out of her diet, and be sure to give her carbs so that we have to give her insulin so that her body is getting the nutrients it needs to grow!! She is such a lively and spontaneous little girl!!
This past weekend was the Fall Harvest Festival at our local apple orchard, and Elsie LOVED picking apples (and eating them too!!) She pushed the wagon, carried the basket of apples and even took a rest in the wagon... we went on a hayride and saw the pumpkin patch and all the apple trees! She had so much fun!! Love making new memories with her and family!!
Last night was a special night, she slept in her BIG GIRL bed for the first time. She has been sleeping all through the night now so we were nervous that a new bed would change that. Well she helped make the bed, helped decide which babies and stuffed animals were on the bed, and she climbed in at bedtime and rolled right over and went to sleep. We didn't hear a peep out of her. She woke up a little bit when we checked her sugar before we went to bed but told us "more sleep" and went back to sleep! I checked on her at about 9:15am and she was laying in her bed with her eyes open and told me "I'm up" and got up and its been a great day so far!! She's going to be a GREAT big sister!!
SO proud and happy she's growing up but she seriously needs to slow down!! Her beauty and personality amazes us every day!! We are so thankful to be called her moms!!
Take care,
McKenzie, Sarah & Elsie too!!
Insulin is also growth hormone normally made within your body and without her body producing it for her. Which is why it is important for us to NOT cut carbs out of her diet, and be sure to give her carbs so that we have to give her insulin so that her body is getting the nutrients it needs to grow!! She is such a lively and spontaneous little girl!!
This past weekend was the Fall Harvest Festival at our local apple orchard, and Elsie LOVED picking apples (and eating them too!!) She pushed the wagon, carried the basket of apples and even took a rest in the wagon... we went on a hayride and saw the pumpkin patch and all the apple trees! She had so much fun!! Love making new memories with her and family!!
Last night was a special night, she slept in her BIG GIRL bed for the first time. She has been sleeping all through the night now so we were nervous that a new bed would change that. Well she helped make the bed, helped decide which babies and stuffed animals were on the bed, and she climbed in at bedtime and rolled right over and went to sleep. We didn't hear a peep out of her. She woke up a little bit when we checked her sugar before we went to bed but told us "more sleep" and went back to sleep! I checked on her at about 9:15am and she was laying in her bed with her eyes open and told me "I'm up" and got up and its been a great day so far!! She's going to be a GREAT big sister!!
SO proud and happy she's growing up but she seriously needs to slow down!! Her beauty and personality amazes us every day!! We are so thankful to be called her moms!!
Take care,
McKenzie, Sarah & Elsie too!!
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