So, the day is moving along normally, and my kids get home from school. My T1 owns up to the fact that he didn’t have a Dexcom working and forgot to bring his meter to school. What should he do; Call his dad who is 15 minutes away, use the one in the office for just this case, or decide to be a young Jedi Master?
Well, from my title you can tell which direction he went. While not what I or I am sure his doctors would recommend, he took control, gave himself 5 small doses of insulin when he felt high, treated two lows, dosed and ate lunch, and walked in the door at 4 pm with a bg of 89.
Not how the plan was drawn up, but his Jedi training pulled him through. Children…[palm smacks forehead]
Good for him. I think functioning without a meter and / or cgm should be absolutely mandatory training, until a level of proficiency is reached (and then refreshed regularly), for absolutely every T1
@Chris, what a GREAT story, this is truly awesome!
Of course, as a father I am worried too. Last summer we lost our CGM while kayak camping on Lake Superior, then one of our backup meters, and had only one left. I was considering if we would have to do a very long kayak trip straight back to shore and weighing the possibility of asking my son to go Jedi…
