Day 3 - We want to go home!
After another restless night ( this was now to become the norm to us) today was hopefully finally the day we got go home!
The morning was lovely as Oliver got to see Santa and got given a little gift - this lifted his spirits up and he said - "do we get to go home so Santa can come to our house tonight?" I smiled and said hopefully but you know what if we cant then Santa will know exactly where you are so we can still have a lovely Christmas day. He seemed to accept this (strangely) and at this point my heart was melting - no arguing just pure cuteness. He was happy playing with the toys - as a parent you sit and think about all the amazing charity events that have happened to raise money to buy such lovely toys for them to play with - even the donations of toys - there are nice thoughtful people out in the world!
Still lunch time had hit - it was becoming the routine of testing the blood sugar before eating and I had started to over come the fears ( emphasis on the started! ) - this time we had our first hypo...... I sat and stared at the screen ......... so I knew we had to give him a sugary drink, ( we had been told that its best to use sugary drinks as the body absorbs this quicker than a sweet - for example a jelly baby) but where do I now get this from?- Oliver started to become a little tired and grumpy with all him wanting to do was lay down and whine (understandably,as it must feel horrible having no control of what your body is doing).
The nurse said its OK I'll go and grab something from the vending machine........ I wondered at the time why don't they have things already kept in the hospital for these types of things - like gluco juice or gluco tabs? Still she came back with a can of full fat coke..... now hes 2 - hes never had coke before I knew Grace ( our 7 year old) hated fizzy drinks and I wasn't keen on giving him the coke because of his teeth. Don't get me wrong I've let my kids try lots of things and I'm not a mum who obsesses about not giving anything but water to my child, but they have both been brought up on water or no added sugar squash- so surely his tummy will just bloat after 200 ml of it?! The nurse said this is all we've got and it will take us a further 20 minutes to go find some orange juice and we need to treat this. So I went along with it. Typically enough today he loves the stuff!
He came up but then it led me to the question of what do we use in the event of hypos in the future? Orange juice was mentioned and we had a prescription of gluco gel. But then I had done some research and it was pointed out that we can use the Lucozade Sport. We were told to make sure it was the sport version as the usual Lucozade doesn't bring the blood sugar up as quick. At least I knew there were options - I was just hoping one of them would be to his taste.
Id hit the point now where I was desperately wanting to take control over this myself. It was a scary thought of going home after learning so much and still it not really sinking in what Type one diabetes actually was. But it needed to be done. The thought of us being in control ( or should I say trying to control) what was happening in a 2 year-old's body. It was terrifying- what if we did it all wrong? - what if we give him too much insulin? or too little? and we end up back in hospital. We didn't want to fail Oliver.
Just to get back to some sort of comfort of our own home - maybe we could relax? That was the hope. And from now on out all we could really do was hope we got things right.
They were letting us home. They did say that it was mainly because it was Christmas as there was still alot for us to learn. They gave us booklets and sheets of information of who to ring and what to do if we had any further questions or needed their help. At first we were sent home with a written diary to record all BG and insulin given. We only had a basic BG reader and were calculating his doses off a predetermined chart. Still we were ready for home and felt positive about it- we were leaving the hospital with our son and he was alive and happy. The simple things in life - just a smile from Oliver makes life worth smiling about. Although very tired I could leave the hospital feeling happy.
The nurse said its OK I'll go and grab something from the vending machine........ I wondered at the time why don't they have things already kept in the hospital for these types of things - like gluco juice or gluco tabs? Still she came back with a can of full fat coke..... now hes 2 - hes never had coke before I knew Grace ( our 7 year old) hated fizzy drinks and I wasn't keen on giving him the coke because of his teeth. Don't get me wrong I've let my kids try lots of things and I'm not a mum who obsesses about not giving anything but water to my child, but they have both been brought up on water or no added sugar squash- so surely his tummy will just bloat after 200 ml of it?! The nurse said this is all we've got and it will take us a further 20 minutes to go find some orange juice and we need to treat this. So I went along with it. Typically enough today he loves the stuff!
He came up but then it led me to the question of what do we use in the event of hypos in the future? Orange juice was mentioned and we had a prescription of gluco gel. But then I had done some research and it was pointed out that we can use the Lucozade Sport. We were told to make sure it was the sport version as the usual Lucozade doesn't bring the blood sugar up as quick. At least I knew there were options - I was just hoping one of them would be to his taste.
Id hit the point now where I was desperately wanting to take control over this myself. It was a scary thought of going home after learning so much and still it not really sinking in what Type one diabetes actually was. But it needed to be done. The thought of us being in control ( or should I say trying to control) what was happening in a 2 year-old's body. It was terrifying- what if we did it all wrong? - what if we give him too much insulin? or too little? and we end up back in hospital. We didn't want to fail Oliver.
Just to get back to some sort of comfort of our own home - maybe we could relax? That was the hope. And from now on out all we could really do was hope we got things right.
They were letting us home. They did say that it was mainly because it was Christmas as there was still alot for us to learn. They gave us booklets and sheets of information of who to ring and what to do if we had any further questions or needed their help. At first we were sent home with a written diary to record all BG and insulin given. We only had a basic BG reader and were calculating his doses off a predetermined chart. Still we were ready for home and felt positive about it- we were leaving the hospital with our son and he was alive and happy. The simple things in life - just a smile from Oliver makes life worth smiling about. Although very tired I could leave the hospital feeling happy.
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