The Training Wheels Are Off!

So, on Monday, and Daddy's birthday, we were speaking with our pump-start-endo when he told us that he was happy with the ratios we had established and that it was time for us to try on our own.  We still have access to our endo team 24-7 so we'll be okay.

We were all so happy to start sleeping through the night again!  It was a rough couple of weeks on the sleep front, but in the end it is so worth it!  Alison was within target range all day today (between 6 and 11.3) and this is starting to become the norm.  We don't feel like we are feeding the insulin anymore, but that we have a four-year-old who can act four.  She can decide how much or how little she wants at her meals.  She can have an extra snack, or avoid one all together.

It took the first night for me to realize something that makes me a little sad.  Alison decided she wanted to have "A lot-A lot of pancakes to celebrate".  She ate almost double what she has been allowed for supper over the last 19 months.  For some time, it seems, Alison has understood that she couldn't eat what she wanted when and was being pretty good about not complaining too much.  This disease makes our youngsters grow up way too fast.

The whole process of putting Alison on pump therapy has been difficult, but it is certainly the best decision that we've made as a family.  To see her living as close to a normal life as Diabetes will let her is such a wonderful stop gap until a much needed cure is found.