Things were going pretty good, blood sugars were down Christian was starting to feel better...WOOHOO!! NOT!! I let him do a few more things, he was feeling better right? I thought I couldn't hurt. Well, he went to a friends house to stay the night. His friend doesn't live to far from my mom, they walked over to her house (after waking to the park) he was hungry (surprise). Mom made him and Aaron a sandwich, chips and a drink checked his blood sugar, he was 67 so basically lunch was free ( or just about. He maybe should have had 1 unit of insulin). It normally would have been ok and we could have corrected at dinner which was just 2 hours away. Well, he was high at dinner (no surprise with having the sandwich at grandmas) gave shot for dinner and a correction shot. Checked him at bedtime and he was over 400!
Over the next few days he kept going higher and higher and higher and I noticed he was getting his rash back UGH!!
Talked to his pediatric doctor, he thought he might have strep throat because not only was he having the high blood sugars and rash, he also had a headache and he was really tired again.
Tested for strep...negative! Good but bad..now on to the ok what is the problem questions.
He started having ketones again (up to 3.3), no strep, high blood sugars, rash....mono was back again!
Finally on Sunday afternoon, he was getting sicker, blood sugars going higher more and more ketones appearing I took him to the ER for some fluid to help bring down the blood sugar. The ER had to call his pediatric doctor, he said he had to go back to Utah Valley. Took him down there and what do you know...he had to stay!
We were there Sunday night, Monday, Monday night and up till 6:00 on Tuesday.....there goes Bunco!!
We are home now, with some very large amounts of insulin. He needs 42 units of his Lantus each night, he gets 1 unit of Humalog for every 5 grams of carbs and for his correction it is 1 unit of Humalog for every 20 points above 140. It doesn't sound like much, but when you are drawing up the insulin and giving it to your child, it is A LOT!!
He has had ups and downs with his sugar still, but hopefully it will get better soon. He is going back to school on the 20th of this month but only for 1/2 days. He will be taking his core classes so he can do end of year testing. but his teacher will not be coming to the house as of today.
I hope we are making the right choice. I am so worried to let him go back to school, worried that he might end up back in the hospital. That is why we choose to let him go 1/2 day rather than going full time again. And with school just about over it hopefully wont be too much on him.
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