Tonight's support group meeting was good.

Learned a lot - and there's a blood glucose meter that has a light on it - which is a huge deal for us since we have no flash lights in the house (Jimmy successfully dismantles all of them - even if they are hidden he finds them, or we forgot where they are...) and we have to turn on the light in the upstairs hallway - which can disturb Jenna, Shortstop, and whichever one of us (me or Jim) is still sleeping - and even with that light on, we still might not be able to see the blood droplet coming from his finger, or read the meter, so we'll have to turn his night stand light on - which will make him cringe in his sleep since he's so light sensitive - so, pray that my insurance will cover this new meter & test strips...
Turns out that Blue Cross Blue Sheild didn't get the "freestyle" meter contract - which is why we have the accu-check (which was perfectly fine honestly until we found out that the "freestyle" has a light - and uses less blood, and can check on more than just the fingertips!!!)

So anyway, we have 3 new math problems to do out of our minimum of 6 in our day since Jimmy has entered this "honeymoon phase." I only had to give him 4 insulin shots out of the last 2 days - since his pancreas has woken up and kicked into sputtering mode. Wish me luck with the guess work. I'm less afraid of the highs than I am of the lows!!! The lows are pretty scary.

We met a 5 year old girl at the suport group today who was diagnosed in May - just about the same age and diagnosis date as Jimmy - who is actually A WHOLE INCH TALLER THAN JIMMY!!!!! Woohoo!! Someone else who is "short for a fourth grader" as we say about Jimmy!!!! She, too, starts Kindergarten in September. She actually started the pump yesterday - so say a prayer that we can have success with the pump when we begin, too. We go on the 30th - but not sure if it's waterproof in which case we wait until September - but I'd really like to start asap so we can be on top of it for a couple of months before he enters Kindergarten!!!

On a lighter note, we had a fundraiser at school today - it was one school vs. the other in a softball game in the hopes to raise money for a student who lost a battle with a disease a few years ago. Jimmy was invited to sit on a blanket to watch the game with a friend, so he took off his shoes... Well, everyone wanted to know where his shoes were. He evidently was running around visiting other kids, the "jungle gym", the bathrooms, the water fountain, the give-away table, the food table, the sidelines, etc... WITHOUT SHOES!!! Hope colleagues don't think I'm a bad mom!!! Good luck to his kindergarten teacher!!!

In addition to Sunday's low (a 47...), we had one low today - I had to cut the line to ask for a soda (and I had to buy now-pay later- luckily, they let me!!!) He wasn't too low, but luckily,I got it, and he perked right up in his filthy socks!!! lol!!!

Ok, enough for now - I'm going to read a bit (thanks for the JD book, Julie - it's riviting), and go to sleep (maybe)...
Peace,
June