New Ideas

Wow, I read that last post and it sounded pretty grumpy! I decided I'm going to blog as I get the time, but mostly about my quilting, and I will update photos of our life in the Picasa Photo Albums as frequently as possible. Many have expressed frustration with Blogger for photos, and that is the source of my change of heart. Picasa is very simple and fast, as I do have two small children and don't want to spend all my time uploading photos of them for the family who keeps asking! So check out what you wish, I'll try to stay current so I don't get so bogged down! =)

Although there is no room for excuses for grumpiness, I can say that I am starting to feel a lot better lately. For those of you who don' t know, Tyler has had type 1 Diabetes since age 13. His doctor put him on a new type of insulin to try and manage it better, along with helping him to loose the weight he's trying so hard for. By the way, kudos to Tyler; he goes lap-swimming at the pool from 6am-7:30am at least 4 mornings a week before work! Anway, Tyler's body didn't like the new insulin, and reacted very strangely; it wouldn't work all day, and then worked excellent at night. We had the ambulance here in the wee hours of the night 3 times in less than a month, because his blood sugar would go too low and he'd go into siezures. When he's awake he feels it going low and compensates with food, but at night when he's sleeping he didn't register that. So.... I was becoming a nervous wreck and getting no quality sleep till he got up to go to work. Then less than 2 hours later, the kids would wake me up.

To make a long story shorter, he's now back to his old insulin that works better, and so far we have had less trouble. I still wake up every time he rolls over or twitches, but I'm even starting to get a little better on that. Breanna is very brave about the whole thing, but I was starting to worry about her. She would hear us talking late at night, and ask if the ambulance was coming..... I have a feeling that at that age if I had any idea my Daddy could wake up like that I'd have been a nervous wreck. Some good news also, is that his Dr. is petitioning the insurance to help pay for a constant glucose monitoring system that checks your blood sugar every few seconds, I think, and sets off an alarm if it goes too low or too high. So if they approve that, I no longer have to keep waking up & waking him up to check it! The problem right now is that it hasn't been approved by the FDA, so insurance won't cover it, and it costs quite a few thousand dollars plus another thousand per month for the supplies to keep it working. Since he's had such trouble, though, it's possible they will approve it. His diabetes specialist, Dr. Tanner, is a tremendous help through all of this. Thanks for listening, and I'll try to get photos up soon. The kids are growing up so fast it's hard to believe, and they are such good friends it is awesome. They do have their occasional squables, but it's obvious how much they love each other and us. I am so lucky to be part of such a wonderful family! =)