Hi everyone
I know I haven't been on in a while...not that I haven't wanted to be, but b/c there has been some health issues w/ my 11yo daughter(I also have a 14yo son and a 7 yo daughter)...anyway, my 11yo is a T1 diabetic. She's been sick on and off, like every other week, since we moved up here to good ol' WNY. Last week Monday was the worst(it actually started on mother's day though)...she and her sister ate strawberries, and at the same time, they both became very ill. Well, my 11yo stopped and slept, got up in the middle of the night, drank gatorade, slept until 7:30am, normal reading(116mg/dL) and no ketones....but then she could not stop getting sick...she ended up at the ped's and then being brought by ambulance to the hospital. She was in severe DKA and she almost died(praise God she is with us). Now, she was there for a few days(we found out our insurance had lapsed b/c we have moved 5 times since we got here, b/c the house we bought had problems, etc)...anyway, she was dx'd w/ PAD and gastritis (PAD in FL and gastritis a couple months ago)...well, they did an echocardiogram on her heart, and they found something.(she has a murmur, which is very normal)...anyway, yesterday, a week after being home, the endo's office calls and says that they don't like her echo reading and want a follow up w/ the cardiologist. Now, we had taken her to the ped's on Monday b/c she could not stop getting sick(endo's want her stomach problems addressed by the peds), and the PAD is being taken care of by a psychiatrist, sooo...the ped sent us for an immediate u/s on Monday...negative for gallstones and all that wonderful stuff, thank God again!!!...but now they need her to see a GI doc as well as the cardiologist.
She has not been in school in about 2 weeks now, and the school is going to start sending a private tutor here to help her w/ the end of the year things(she goes to middle school next year).
Please pray she has no problems, they just dissapate(we can all only pray and believe, right?)...
And also, for my other kids, as all three of them are having a pretty hard time w/ all of this...especially the move. There are some other issues going on, but I will spare you all from that incessant babbling, since I've already babbled enough as it is.
Thank you all so much and God bless...
Sorry if this seems to be going in circles...I've barely slept for the past week or so...
Again, God bless
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