Catching up

I have thought many times that I would try to blog everyday, every-other-day or at least on a regular basis; but I just don't have anything that interesting or thought provoking to blog about! But just when I think my life is pretty boring, at least to someone on the outside-looking-in, we have some interesting things happen. Not that any of this is interesting to anyone outside, but it is something to blog about!

We have a small town political storm brewing here in Klamath county. Whether or not to merge the 2 school districts. It pretty much has created "them vs. us" and Lucas was joining the 'Vote No on the merger" rally for a walk down Main St to gather at the Court House. I think he was just going to hang out down town! My assumption was proven correct when he phoned and said it was pretty boring, they were going to hang out downtown for a while.

My little protester.

Morgan is almost finished with basketball. So far, the freshman team is 17-1, 10-1 in league play and we have 1 game left. I asked Morgan if he ready for basketball to be over and he looked at me like I had 2 heads....'I love basketball mom, why would I want it to be over?'....uh, because I am ready for Spring? Blood sugars have been tough. What works this week, won't work the next and I really need to check his over night basal rates. Checking his rates during basketball is really futile because there is so much change. Game night is different from practice nights and we just try to temporarily adjust as we can. A few nights over the past week or so he has woke up with some high blood sugars...250+, which, to me means that he has had a rebound from a low blood sugar. Asking Morgan if he had a low during the night gets me no information. He just say's 'No', I don't think he wakes up from his lows, he just sleeps through them. Well, when I went in to check him the other morning I found this....

It confirmed that at least he had a low that night. He chewed up the top to a tube of glucose tablets thinking it was a glucose tablet, we are fortunate that he didn't choke on the thing while trying to treat his low blood sugar! He has his final game on Tuesday. I think I will start testing his rates next week. When I test Morgan's basal rates, I will typically check his blood sugars every couple of hours over night. This will tell me if he is getting too much insulin...low blood sugars, or too little...high blood sugars. I can then adjust his insulin pump accordingly.

We seem to have also found the magic bullet if you will regarding his high blood sugars during games. Adrenaline always causes Morgan to spike during games and he has been very wary to start a game with too much active insulin flowing through his system. During a recent game he had about 5 units of active insulin at the beginning of the game and he never went above 150. AND he played great. So the key for Morgan is to have a few units of active insulin at the start of the game and monitor alot during. Better late than never!

Pat is sick again with a nasty virus settling in his chest. Please pray that he gets over this bug quickly!

By the way, I am voting against the merger

Travel Advisory

Morgan had a basketball tournament in Corvallis this weekend so we left on Friday to make the 4 hour trip.  It had been snowing here when we left and we knew that it would take a little longer to get there.  The roads were fine once we got out of town and onto the highway and actually made it in about 5 hours.

Diamond Peak 

The tournament was a really fun one.  The boys get to play some really good teams and we can see improvement all the time.

They had an early morning game Sunday, 8:30, so Morgan had to be up and have breakfast about an hour before the game so it was really no surprise that his blood sugar was 400+ right before the game.  I am sure he was spiking from his breakfast AND he probably under bolused because he was going to be playing basketball soon, but 400+ is pretty high so he gave himself a few units of insulin just in case.

He didn't play much the first half because when he is that high it effects his game so when he checked at half-time imagine his surprise when his meter responded "HI".  Not "HI" as in hello, but HI as in "I can't tell what your blood sugar is, HIGH".  He lifts up his shirt and his infusion set is barely hanging on...Well we gave him boluses by syringe and got him down to reasonable levels soon enough.

The real excitement of the weekend also came on Sunday when we woke up to snow in Corvallis!  It snowed most of the morning and there was about 4 inches in places.  When it was time to leave for home our dilemma was not whether we should stay in town or not, but which road to take....we were sure highway 58 and 97 would be a mess(if it was snowing that hard in the valley, imagine what it was doing up there!), and at least along I-5 there were places to stay if we needed to.  So I-5 it was.  

Beautiful snow cover and cloud cover.

What were we thinking?

There is a downed tree right in the middle of the bend.

Trucks chaining up.  I don't even know what mountain passes we were on.  I couldn't find any signs...they were all buried.

The roads were terrible.  You have heard those traffic advisories that tell you to stay home and off the road unless in emergency situations....well we should have stayed home...or in a hotel somewhere.

This is I-5, we are headed south an the other side is headed North.  They were backed-up for about 5 miles while crews checked for chains, which were required headed north.  We were pulled over at 7-Feathers casino and the highway was closed due to downed power lines.  We were out for about 45 minutes before they started letting traffic back through.  

Total, it took us 9 hours to get home.  I know that one day, when he is older, Morgan will appreciate what his dad and I have gone through to get him to these basketball tournaments!

(Disclaimer:  The driver of the vehicle wasn't snapping photos...the passenger was!)