Well, here we go again....

As many of you know, in March Christian had to be hospitalized for his diabetes. And while he was in the hospital we found out he has mono and he has been home from school. With him being home has has been very bored. So this last weekend he went to a friends house and spent the night, while he was there they walked over to see grandma Sue. Christian was hungry, he checked his blood he was 62. Mom gave him a sandwich to eat and a few other things. When he came home, it was dinner time, checked his blood for dinner and he was 202. Not too bad, should be lower but I can live with that.

Had dinner, we all went and walked around the mall, came home and it was time for him to check his blood sugar again for his bedtime reading and he was 467! And ever since he has been in the high 400's. Since Saturday at dinner time the lowest he has been in 311. I am glad he is going to the endo today. Hopefully we can get things straightened out for him!! UGH..I am frustrated with this!

Classic Skating

Twice a year the school pays for everyone and their family to go skating at Classic. It is a day that Jentri looks forward to. She will take her scooter and go around and around and around. She loves it when they do the "blackout". She gets to buy a special light to skate with when they turn the light out so she can see to skate. She likes being there with her friends and listening to the music.

Jentri Bday

Jentri's birthday was a couple of weeks ago. And with things being the way they have been with christian, she didn't get to have a party like she wanted, so we took her to build a bear for her "special day".

She has about 3 pieces of gum in her mouth! Guess she needed something to do while we waited in line :)

Shes happy now because she is next....but what about Dad? LOL

After she stuffed her bear, she gets to "wash and brush" her.

Now she is naming her. After long and hard thinking she came up with BOOG.

This is the cake I made her for her party. It just ended up being the family. It was a quiet birthday day for her.

Jentris Bday "7"

Jentri had her first friend bday party today. She invited 6 girls over (boy were they LOUD!) They watched Madagascar 2, had cake and ice cream, opened presents and played games.



This is the cake she had for her friend party

Taylor, Emily, Jentri and Ashlynn

Emily gave her a new Tinkerbell blanket

Taylor gave her bag with Hannah Montana stickers
a Hannah pen and white board

Playing "Bubble gum, bubble gum" after cake and ice cream
Emily, Kalina, Mia, Ellie, Taylor, Ashlynn and Jentri

A long weekend!

After a month long battle with Christians diabetes, it finally came to a head or you could say the bottom fell out. For the last week within 2 hours of me taking him to school he would call me saying he didn't feel good or his blood sugar was really high. I would go get him, he would rest and try to start another day.

After a week of blood sugar readings being in the high 500-700's he finally started spilling ketones (that is where your body is not using the fat and insulin they way it should and it "spills" into your blood). On Saturday he was between 2.8-4.4 (normal is anything below .6). when you are 3.0 it is straight to the ER. I would have him check to see if they would go down, they would but then he would be high again.

After we had cake and ice cream for Jentris "7" bday, he tested his blood, his meter would only read HI, so he was probably over 700. Ketones were 3.1....off to the ER we go. They start him on fluid through an IV, by the time the second bags starts we find out he is critically hi and he has ketones over 4.0. Once they start the second bag, he starts saying he can't breath, he goes as pale as the sheets, curls up in a ball and starts to cry. They put him on oxygen and take him to Utah Valley in Provo.

From there he is still on oxygen, a heart monitor and another IV. After trying to get some sleep at 4 AM, they start checking his blood every hour. Finally get him down to 96, he eats his first meal and goes back up again. UGH!! He stays high for most of the time while we are in the hospital. While we are in there, I ask them about a rash he has on his upper body on his chest, neck and beck. They draw more blood and it turns out he has mono!!

We are finally able to come home Monday afternoon, but he can't go to school because of mono. So now he is home till that goes away, blood sugars are high then low, high then low again!! I am on little sleep ,exhausted. I call "Ben", he is the diabetic educator. He is the one who was with us for 3 days in the hospital when he was first diagnosed. And I have been told that he is for sure a "brittle diabetic". So that means we will almost always be high or low, no normal range for him.

3 words

I HATE DIABETES!!!!

Christian and Stokley

When my sister Casey had her baby Bella Christian was holding her and she threw up on him. After that, he wouldn't hold a baby. After a few years of talking to him and telling him that every time you hold a baby that doesn't happen he decided to try it. Last month after Bunco when Stokley was here he held her.......



Awww....so cute!