Christian and our very long and stressful week

So, for the past few months we have been fighting Christian's blood sugar. He has been really high, we have made changes but it didn't help much. Well, Tuesday morning he was 396, he sent me a text at 11:30 saying that he was 511! I just about crapped! I had him recheck again and he was 358 (I know most of you are wondering whats with the numbers, but he is supposed to be between 80-150 when he checks his blood). I went to the school again and checked his ketones they were negative (.1) which is good. But he said he didn't feel good and he came home. He checked through out the rest of the day and he was still high.

When he checked after Bunco at 9:00 for his bedtime reading he was 472. He was feeling dizzy and like he was going to throw up so we called the paramedics. They came over, checked him and he went up again! In just 30 minutes he went for 472 to 485. So then we took him to the ER, they checked him there and he was over 700! That is like seizure high.....we were pretty scared. Not sure what was going to happen. The hospital started him on a quart of liquid through an IV, and gave him a correction shot.

To make a long story and long night short, he ended up having 1 1/2 quarts of liquid, 3 correction shots ( 2 in his arm and 1 in the IV). We were at the ER most of the night. When they let us go, I had orders to see his Endo Wednesday or Thursday. And new ratios for his Novolog and Lantus.

Called his Endo first thing Wednesday morning, had an appointment to see him at 11:45 that morning. He is on 5th East and South Temple, driving up there in the snow wasn't too much fun, but we made it. Dr. Lindsay made more changes with insulin but now that his numbers are so high and we have made so many changes, I have to get up every hour and a half to make sure things are working. Make sure he isn't going too high again and make sure he isn't getting too much insulin and going low. And we have to check ketones every 3 hours. fun huh? I can tell you it has made for a VERY long week! His endo is talking about him being a "brittle" diabetic. I am going to do some research on that and find out exactly what that is...doesn't sound like much fun though.