Life's Big Pains and my Toddler.

Oh my gosh, its been FOREVER and a Day since I wrote one of these but something has come up recently and I will have something to blog about regularly to you guys from my Baby Center groups....Not something Good either.

On November 30th, I noticed a small boo boo, on my 2 year old Mateo's stomach, after my mom and sister looked at it, we came to an agreement that it looked like the diabetic sores my Dad is prone too for being a Type II Diabetic, and my sister also has had a few, she too is diabetic, recently diagnosed. So what did I do, I had my mom test my son's blood sugar with my Dad glucose meter. It was 129, so the first thing I did was call the family doctor(hes been treating my family atleast one side for about 40 years)So they had me go in that day for 230 p. I didnt get there til 330 that afternoon, but when I got there they rechecked his blood glucose level and it came back 124. When the Doctor came in he said with the Family History he was NOT going to say my son wasn't diabetic. On one side of my family(paternal) my Dad and his siblings not all but most have Type II Diabetes(Adult On-Set) and so does my sister. But Maternally my grandmother and an Uncle were diagnosed years earlier under age 30 when any diabetes diagnoses at that time under age 30 were considered Juvenile Diabetes(Type I Diabetes), so I kind of knew we were SCREWED.

I continued checking his sugars since then, they wer continously 125-130 all but on the 6th of December(it was 95) and the 7th(it was 109). My Family Doctor told me to get a hold of a Doctor in Manchester NH that is a Pediatric Endocrinologist who was actually based out of Children's Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock(near the mountains to locals its known as C.H.A.D. They finally called me back today and tomorrow at 145p, we will meet with the Pedi Endocrinologist, and immediately after we will meet with a Diabetic Educator, they havent done blood work but from What my Family Doctor told the Doctor up there They are already calling him Type I Diabetic(Jevenile Diabetes)

So what I may be in for is testing his glucose up to 3 times a day, possibly giving him insulin injections daily or multiple times daily, but I am hoping they can show me how to control it for now with specail dieting....The downfall, EVERYONE else who lives in my family's house will have to eat a Diabetic Diet so I am not preparing a bunch of different meals. We already have some adjusted meals in place since my father is diabetic, but my oldest son soon to be 5 year old Pablo will have to suffer with this and so will my 12 year old neiece and 11 year old nephew.

I hear it's going to be a difficult and tryig time for my kids to get used to not eating certain things that they have been eating, and Im hoping they don't take bad to it, and like the change. I feel bad that they will lose out on soooo many things they are used to.....My boys love Pastta dishes and my youngest the diabetic loves rice dishes and we will have to LIMIT those Alot, and they both love to snack on breads....I don't know how this is going to work out, but we will soon see...Like I said this isn't a good thing to blog about regularly but it does give me something to blog about, since I havent had much else too blog about in sooooo long.