Tonight was my chance to watch Elizabeth's softball game.
I love watching her play. I'd never learned the rules of softball until I had a kid playing softball. This is her first year since she was on a t-ball team 7 years ago! She is having so much fun and I am having so much fun. :-) It's tricky for me though, as to what is the best things to do in order that her blood sugar levels stay at a safe level for her during play.
We have been doing fairly well with balance her meal at a decent time before practice / game with pump settings, etc and she hasn't had any lows while in a game. She's had a few highs and even one that involved ketones, but that was from a site failure.
Tonight though, we had our first LOW during a game. Thankfully they had just came back to the dugout to get ready to go on the field. It had been an hour since she had checked her blood sugar (221) and I always have her check each hour. It wasn't until she sat down to check that she started feeling low. She was 41! She had dropped from 221 to 41 in one hour. wow. She was sweating profusely and pale. Her assistant coach said that she seemed to be ignoring her on the field when he was talking to her, which is totally out of character. He kept saying that he should have seen it, he should have known. But ya know...I miss them myself and I'm with her pretty much 24 / 7. It's scary to me that she didn't feel it until she had stopped the activity and sat down to rest. And by then it was a bad low. We filled her full of carbs and within an hour she was feeling great and 134. 2 hours after that though, she said those words I so hate to hear..."Mom, I feel low". She was 60, so not too bad, but low. I'm always ready for more lows after a bad one like that, so her pump was turned WAY down.
Well, not too exciting for a blog post, but it frazzled my evening and I'll be checking on her tonight for sure! Like I don't every night, right??? ;-)
This is also why I want one of these:
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