Summer time-The highs and Lows

Ashleigh has started 5th grade and we are finally into the swing of things. All of the extracurricular activities have started back up. She has got Girl Scouts and dance, not to mention whatever other activities she wants to do. We also just had an awesome T1D play date this past and an A's game with JDRF(Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). The A's game was awesome! we got to meet Ryan Dull.

Here is a picture of Ashleigh on her first day of 5th grade, her last year in elementary school!

On  September 8th, We went a spent a day with the Oakland A's! The game was great, we met lots of great families, and we got to meet A's Pitcher Ryan Dull! When we arrived the JDRF Staff was happy to see everyone and educate everyone about T1D. We got our T-shirt for Ryan Dull to sign and walked around the stadium. Here are some fun photos of the day!

On Sunday the 9th we had a T1D play date at Memorial Park in San Ramon, There was 15+ families there! It was a lot of fun and my daughter enjoyed meeting kids that were just like her!

I had what I thought was a parenting win(good night with a great number), followed by a horrible night that almost landed us in the ER. Ashleigh's blood sugar was low and would rise and then fall and rise and fall. even after talking to the Doctor at Children's and administering glucagon  she was still going low, finally around 10pm her blood sugar decided to go up and stay there. You can see from the picture below how low she was

A couple nights later she had a blood sugar in the stayed within her range most of the night!  I call that a win after a night of lows.

Greater Goods- Perfect Portions scale

Let me tell you about this scale! This has made Ashleigh's life way easier. She simple looks in the book for the code, types it in the scale and it shows how many carbs are in what she is eating! This scale has helped her be more independent in her diabetes management.

It's small enough to just stick in a drawer or on a shelf in the cupboard. with the glass surface, it is super easy to clean. The only down fall i found was that the food code book has everything you need but in sometimes random categories, I went and made a spreadsheet of all the items in alphabetical order(Waaaaaay easier for me).