Been a long time.

Life is crazy busy right now.  I think it will slow down, just a tad bit with summer.  Lucas had his 8th grade graduation dance tonight.  He looks too young to be finishing 8th grade.

Lucas and his date.

I have a suspicion that this is who he will really be hanging with!

Nice looking young man.

Morgan also finished a great track season.  Earning his Varsity letter and going to the state finals as an alternate.

(I never noticed this until now, but if you look really close, in the background of this picture, I was able to get another family member, without even knowing it!)

We have a busy summer.  Morgan is having surgery in a couple of weeks to fix a deviated septum that he has suffered with since he was 5.  Summer basketball league has started.  We have a float trip planned down the John Day river.  Pat is hiking with his brother in the Eagle Cap Wilderness area.  The boys and I are renting a cabin on Wallowa Lake for the week and just having some 'down-time' before August gets here:  which means football and cross-country!

How can it be?

I already have our summer planned out until August? It is only April! Between basketball summer camp, our John Day float trip, Pat backpacking the Wallowa's and Morgan getting his nose fixed....We. Are. Booked! School will start earlier that usual at the end of August. Football practice will be thrown in sometime before then and we will have to be home for that and I think Lucas may be doing Cross Country. Whew. We haven't even finished track yet.

Lucas has been running great times in the 1500M and the 800M and actually had a great throw in his first discus competition.

Morgan is pretty proud that he has made Varsity track running the 200M and the 4X400M relay. So instead of the luxury of home meets on Friday's, we get to travel on Saturday's. Fortunately for us though the District meet will be hosted this year at OIT!

This is a great site to get up-to-date cross country and track times for all of our participating Crebbin's: CLICK HERE

Track and Spring Cleaning

Spring track has started once again.  Both boys are participating this year and fortunately it looks like I won't miss out on too many of either boys meets.  Except the meet on Thursday.  Lucas had a meet in Medford and Morgan had a meet in town.  I decided to travel to Lucas' meet.  He ran the 1500, 800 and the 4 X 400 relay.  He did awesome in all of his races and his relay team shaved almost 20 seconds off their PR from last year.

Finishing the 1500M

Typical, this was the pass on the way home from Medford.

We also decided to tile the boys shower.  

This is before....

This is during.  

We don't have the grout in yet.  That will happen today.

I almost hate to put the shower doors back on, the tile looks so pretty.

Morgan went over to North Bend this weekend to run in a  Frosh/Soph meet there.  He is doing very well.  He runs the 100/200/4X100 and 4X400 relays.  He also throws Javelin, but I don't think he has competed in that area yet. He runs a sub 25s 200 and may actually get to run on the varsity 4X400 relay.

I'm not the only one

Today after church Morgan and I went to a local burger place to pick up lunch. As we were standing in line taking in all of the people I noticed a little boy about 7 years old sitting at a table with the ever familiar little black pouch, testing his blood sugar. I think that this is the first time in 3 1/2 years that I have seen another child checking their blood sugar. I told Morgan "Look, look" His smile was wide. I told him he should go up and talk to him. Morgan was actually pretty nervous. He wanted to, but didn't know how to approach the boy. I gave him some suggestions but ultimately Morgan went out to the car, got his meter and came in and checked his own blood sugar. I told him he should go up and say something like "Hi, I saw you checking your blood sugar, I check mine too". Well he did just that. The boys mom asked about Morgan's pump and other stuff, but in the end thanked Morgan for coming up and saying hi. Her son had said 'I'm not the only one' and it really made her day.

I know as a parent sometimes I feel alone in this, especially in the early "daze" but I took comfort in knowing that I was not the only parent up at 2 or 3 in the morning checking blood sugars. Counting down 5..4..3..2..1...praying that the meter would give me a good number so I would not have to treat a low, only to have to check again in 15 minutes and again in 15. Places like TuDiabetes, Children with Diabetes and my wonderful sister-in-law who helped out in the beginning and even now 3 1/2 years into diagnosis. It can feel like 'we are the only ones' but we are never really alone.

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