Random Stuff

As much as I love when things are calm, I hate to post about it, as if I am somehow jinxing it.

Jada's mood has been pretty stable. She did have a rage on Sunday evening (of course, right when the D-Mom chat was getting started) complete with hitting, name calling, and spitting. For some reason my kid likes to spit when she is mad. She will spit at me if she is close enough or just spit on the floor. This time, I grabbed her and sat her in it. She wasn't too happy about it but it's gross! There have been a few aggrivations for her, typical kid stuff but she doesn't quite know how to handle it typically so it becomes a bigger deal in our house. But over all, things are pretty good.

I officially ended the temporary basal rate thing and just increased her basals by 100% which finally brought her bg levels into the 100s a few times. She is hungry all of the time (another side effect of the Abilify) so she is constantly eating so much of her numbers come soon after some sort of food. She has gained 4 pounds in two weeks but she is still average size so I am not concerned about it.

And let me just this whole battery cap mess out there for anyone who I am not friends with on Facebook. Animas recomends that you change the battery cap on the pump every six months. I don't know when this was covered but I missed that fact somehow. Jada's cap had become stripped so it wasn't making a good connection with the battery causing her pump to shut off. After we finally had a bg in the 100s, next check she was in the 300s...WTH? So I tried to bolus from her meter and it kept telling me that it couldn't communicate with the pump but she was only five feet away from me so I knew something wasn't right. I called Animas and ordered another one. Then, the pump proceeded to turn itself off again at school several times yesterday. I called the only person I know here with an Animas pump and she had an extra one that she gave to us which I will replace when the one I ordered comes in. I love D-Moms! I was constantly worried about her pump shutting off and the highs that would come along with it but problem solved way quicker than I thought it would be.

I am not usually that person that counts down until the end of school but I am now. School is free and summer care isn't. But at the summer care program, they will follow any directions they are given to care for Jada and administer her insulin with out any problems. If only the nurse would do the same thing.

Jada has had trouble falling asleep the last few nights. She gets really wound up in the afternoon/evenings. I can't tell if it is hyperactivity or mania. The trend with kids with bipolar is to be more active and all over the place during that time of the day so I am not sure how to tell the difference. I will be talking to her doctor about that tomorrow.

I guess that is it for now.