Do you use a diabetes logbook?

ClaudnDaye
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:23:27 +0000
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I create logs for multiple reasons.

1. Especially with site rotations, for us…having 6 locations + 6 site rotations (equaling 12 sites), for us…we can just manage rotations better with accurate logs. Liam being so young, if we don’t rotate correctly, he’ll have saturation/occlusion issues before he’s even a teenager. We don’t want to set him up for failure.

2. The ability to look back on specific situations (i.e…when did we receive our last POD failure/error?) Without logs, we wouldn’t know this information.

3. To teach Liam the importance of proper D management. I’ve always been overly organized and I believe organization makes every job easier. I try to teach my kids this rule because, with school work and other things, if you’re organized, you’ll have an easier time and make better grades. (i.e., If you use your organizer in class to annotate upcoming assignments, important notes, etc., and IF you refer to that organizer regularly, you’ll never turn in assignments late which will equate to better grades.)

4. Because he’s so young, I think it’s important to give him some “historical” information about the processes we use, how they’ve changed over the years, what works and doesn’t work, etc., If we have a log, it’s something he can pick up later when he’s old enough to understand and manage himself and perhaps it will help him.

5. Nostalgia. It’s a LOT of work managing our own or our child’s diabetes…the log is my way of reflecting for myself the hard work, the sleepless nights, the problems overcome, the endless requirements for changes in processes, etc.,

I also keep a journal that I write in as I have a particular emotion/feeling or am going through a particularly good or bad time as Diabetes is concerned. These things I plan to give to Liam when he gets old enough so that he can understand what his mother and I have done to ensure he’s as healthy as he can be. These things in addition to proper education and care we hope pushes him to become a responsible young adult/adult and care for himself equally as much as we have cared for him when the responsibility rested on our shoulders.

Sure it would be easy to just hook up the phone and upload the information, but these uploads don’t show any of the actual “work” involved in D management.

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