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Originally Posted by Monkeybabies
Wow Suzie, I give ya a lot of credit for dealing with a three year old diabetic. Being a toddler is hard enough...never mind all the other pricks and injections. Poor baby. How did you find out that he is a diabetic???
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The symptoms were gradual, nothing that would stand out too much individually, but once put together we knew something wasn't right. DS had lost weight over the course of a month (we thought he was getting ready for a growth spurt), his diapers had started to leak every single night, then he started turning his nose up at any food. When he started drinking water like there was no tomorrow, we took him to the doctor - ran some tests, and the results came back that he had spilled sugar and protein in his urine. We were sent to Children's Hospital, and there they determined that his ketones were through the roof, and blood sugar was 5 times what it should be - DS was in the early stages of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), which can be life-threatening. It was a terrifying time - he was admitted and spent a week in hospital before we began our diabetes training. They couldn't let us leave the hospital without learning everything there is to know about caring for a diabetic child - the training lasted 4 days, and we're still learning today
(oh, and DS had just turned 2 at the time).
Hope and Breaking Free, you guys have summed up my thoughts and feelings on this very well. What works for one won't necessarily work for another, and right now I'm at peace with the choices we're making, as they work the best for my son. Given that 98% of the time he eats much more healthfully and "cleanly" than the vast majority of the population, I can't let myself get too worked up about the other 2% of the time, when it does give him some balance and a sense that maybe he's not so different from everyone else.