Thanks Bev, appreciate it. 🙂 Every little bit and all...
Where is everyone today?
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Wanted to share something else. Well, two things. First, about this long walk. It happens every year at E's school, sponsored for charity, etc. Last year he became very ill on the walk, and had to stop in the middle, come home. He was feeling terribly sick and had an upset tummy. This upset tummy, soreness, never seemed to go away, on and off...forever from that day.
When we were with the school last week, making arrangements for the walk, E mentioned this to the AEN woman, hoping for a better go this year. OH and I looked at each other. We had obviously both clicked but not mentioned it to each other: of course, last year E was already Type 1. He was ill from high blood sugar. That's what it was. We gently mentioned this to him. And he almost cried. He hadn't realised. He was ill, and we had no way of knowing, and he felt really quite grim from then on...Less than 3 weeks later, he was diagnosed.
Gulp.
Secondly, and this is completely practical: we believe that we have come to the conclusion that apple juice, if bolused for, is always so quick in and out that it brings on a low or near low. It also raises BG by less than it strictly speaking carb-wise should in the case of use as a hypo treatment. We know this because at bedtime it never raises BG by the amount you would think (eg 20gCHO should equal 2.5 mmols for E -- However, a glass tends to raise things by 1 to 1.5 mmols only). SO we will now under-bolus apple juice.
Also, we believe that milk and biscuits at bedtime do the opposite: they seem to raise BG by more than the carb indicates. After 20gCHO of milk and biccies, by morning, E will be more like 5mmols higher, instead of 2.5mmols as expected. SO we will now always either bolus for a little of the carb, or just not use at night...
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Anyway, just thoughts. Hope everyone okay.
xxoo
