You have got everything down...you could have been Kailey's "coach"...
Yes, she went to a meeting with the teacher and nurse last night...and myself, her other grandmother and her great-grandmother take turns going up on her lunch hour to make sure she eats all of her lunch (she gets too distracted talking with friends to trust her to get her carbs)...
We all carry candy, cake icing(she doesn't like honey), apple juice and glucogone with us wherever we go. she is very scary...she can be running across the room with her normal energy...but will just pass out without notice when her blood sugar gets too low..she has scared me many times...that is why we test her so often.
She isn't allowed to go anywhere at the school without a "buddy" that goes with her...in case something happens, the buddy can go get help.
I keep finding articles here on Free Republic about new treatments and I print them off and give them to my son and daughter in law...but of course, her mother and all do the same thing...LOL They get lots of help from the family!!!
I do so appreciate it when you post to me like you did tonight, it makes me feel a lot better about Kailey's future.
Have a great weekend, Lady---and I always include you in MY prayers!
God Bless you,
sleuth
As for the "suddenly running and then dropping like a fly," many diabetics do not have or do not pay attention to early *warning signs* - -
I am so attuned to my body's changes that even if I test and get something quite high, if I *feel* a drop in progress I TREAT ANYWAY.
Far better to overtreat and correct than to plummet and pass out.
I ALWAYS go on instinct, time being of the essence, and even go against a professional, if warranted.
One day at the Medical College of Georgia, a PA was doing my workup before my Endocrinologist was to come into the room. With me suddenly feeling a drop in BG was in progress, he had a nurse come in to check it.
Yep - it said a "safe high 180" - - he was smug and actually making fun of me for the little interruption -
HOWEVER, I KNEW IT WAS DROPPING RAPIDLY!
I insisted firmly I needed some orange juice or cola RIGHT NOW, and yanked out my spice drops and practically inhaled them....he reluctantly had it checked again as he gave me the juice, and it was already down to 53 and falling further....
I am blessed now with all my caregivers (Nephrologist, Endocrinologist, Dialysis Clinic staff) comfortably believing anything I say.
The best advice I can give Kailey is to learn to recognize "changes/differences" in herself and promptly pursue them aggressively, no matter what - not overly depend on persons who have not had diabetes, and simply cannot understand the complexities.
I tell persons I would cheerfully maim or kill, snatching from their hands vital fluids or foodstuffs to treat an insulin reaction - and I mean that, as Kailey must.
In my case, usually/often there is a drop in the tone level of my speech that signals a drop in progress - can/but not always be a tightening in the stomach, overall slightly agitated, sped up shift - she will learn to recogize her own signals, and treat right away, hopefully.
The opposite was a quite familiar thing, too, often working with BG of 500 and much higher and not breaking stride...injected insulin and kept plodding along..:))
(It takes a *long period* of extreme highs to create diabetic ketoacidosis and/or coma.)