T1D Surprises

My nine-year-old grandson sat in church today eating fruit snacks. He had to. Just moments before he checked his glucose level: 69. At one point last Sunday morning I looked over and he was punching numbers into his insulin pump. His glucose level that time was in the 350s and he needed a correction. The target range is from 70 to 140.

Oliver was just 2-years-old when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, so he has lived with the myriad of issues that come with T1D for six years. As you would expect, all of us who care for Oliver are much better equipped to anticipate how his body will respond to various situations than we were when this journey started. Oliver has a heightened awareness of his physical condition, too. I sometimes ask him to predict what his glucose number will be when he does the finger poke and he is often remarkably accurate.