Dear Mother nature,

I am glad to see that you are FINALLY reading my blog. It seems that we are still a little slow at providing the cooler weather, but in a few days I think you will have finally come through. It is time for the 80-90 temps to go away for a long time. Thank you for listening.

A very happy person (at least when Wednesday gets here),
Traci

My check list...

Get Dr to write prescription for pump for Christian....check
Get insurance to approve pump....check
Get call from Diabetes Speciality Center saying pump is in....check
Go to Salt Lake and get pump....check
Go back to Salt Lake for pump class....check
12am, 3am, 6am blood sugar checks to make sure pump is working ok....a very tired check
Having pump for a week....check (close enough)

After 4 years of shots, shots and more shots we have FINALLY gotten a pump. I have mixed emotions about it. I am so used to doing shots and figuring everything out (the pump does most of this now), it has been a big change for me. I have heard good and bad things can happen when you use a pump. We found out Tuesday when we went to Salt Lake for the pump class, that he would stat using his pump then. He will get a continuous drip of insulin in his body (this is to mimic the pancreas) so when things go wrong with his pump, his blood sugar will shoot up really high in a short amount of time. This is because he doesn't have Lantus in his body anymore.

While I am happy that he finally got a pump, I am hoping things will be good and we wont run into too many problems.

I will keep you all updated :)

Some good news...

Things have not been going too good around our house for a little while. But FINALLY things are starting to turn around. Now I just hope they stay that way for a while :) As you know, Kens hours got cut and he was part time. He made some phone calls and he is able to keep his full 8 hours by way of working at 2 schools. WOOHOO!

Then today as I was taking Jentri to school, I got a call and the insurance authorized for Christian to be able to get a pump!! We have been working on getting him one since June. We were denied the first time but after all the records and the phone calls to the doctor and the doctor calling the insurance company, things went through WOOHOO (again!)

I am so glad a few things are turning around in our favor...now if we can just keep it up for a little bit longer.

Life...

Do you ever wonder why?

I was hoping...

That even though the economy is really bad, that with everything Ken does at the school we would be ok. But I guess not. Ken came home from work yesterday looking a little down and I thought he was just tired from the work week, didn't think too much about it. While I was doing laundry, I heard him on the phone asking about hours in kindergarten. I go in our room to see what is going on, and he tells me that they have cut his hours. He is now working 4 hours a day instead of 8. What a shock!!

He has already put some calls in to people that he knows and we are hoping that things will get better. I was thinking of life last night after the kids were in bed and I guess this is how people become homeless, it starts at the end of the day with bad news and keeps getting worse.

Not saying that we are going to be homeless, it was just a thought. So for the last 12 hours I have been in the "what can we cut out mode". Looks like TV programs and Bunco are the first to go.

WOOHOO for Jentri

School has been in for a few weeks now and last Friday she took he first spelling test. There were 10 words and she got 10 out of 10! She is awesome in spelling, last year in first grade the most she ever missed on a 20 word spelling test for the whole year was 1!!

Like I said...WOOHOO for Jentri

Dear Mother Nature,

Obviously you have ignored my last post about the weather. While I am sure there are other people that are enjoying the 90+ weather that we are STILL having, I for one am not one of them. Please, please, please take into consideration the cooler weather loving people. ANY significant temperature drop would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
~Traci

Here we go again...

I got a txt from christian saying he didn't feel good. Headache, sore throat and upset tummy. Had him check his blood sugar, he was 308! Took a correction shot, still high. Went to get him, hope things calm down. Maybe he is sick with strep or something, that would be an easy answer to the high readings after a few days of lows.