Showing posts with label Smart Kid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smart Kid. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Friday, August 2, 2013
Job Site & Diabetes
Zane had a great opportunity today!! He comes to work with me every morning for about an hour before going to school. This morning my manager told him that her boys (who he is good friends with) were going with her husband (their dad obviously) to their property to watch the cement trucks pour the foundation for their new house they are building. She then asked him (and me) if he wanted to go with them. He of course jumped up and down saying "yes, yes" - I was a little reluctant since neither her or I would be going with them and her husband was/is not trained at all on how to deal with his Diabetes. Reluctant or not, I wasn't going to let him miss out on something this cool just because he was chosen to have Diabetes! I've said all along that I will never let that stop him from doing anything! My manager was certain that her husband could handle it and that they would only be gone 1-2 hours.
I checked Zane's blood sugar before he left and it was a perfect #! I told Zane that HE was in charge of his Diabetes while he was away; that no one else knew what to do - he assured me he could do it. I told him if Dex went off (his continuous glucose monitor) saying that he was HIGH that he could just clear it and let me know when he returned, but if Dex went off saying he was LOW that he needed to drink a juice out of his bag right away, then he could check his blood sugar. I also informed Ben that if Zane came to him asking for a juice that he needed to get him one out of his bag immediately!
Zane came back a couple hours later grinning frome ear to ear; he couldn't wait to tell me all about what he saw and did! On the drive to school he told me all about the pump truck, the cranes and meeting Mack one of the construction workers! I asked him if Dex went off at all and he said "nope, didn't have to check at all" - yay! He then said this to me (and I quote) "they did have donuts there and offered one to all of us, I told the guy that I would skip it unless he knew how many carbs were in it" - be still my heart. How is it that my baby is this grown up and responsible?? I asked him if Logan & Blake had a donut and he said "yeah, they did"...not only was he responsible enough to not eat one because he knew he needed insulin for it, but he then sat there and watched his two buddies eat one right in front of him (which is TOTALLY fine, I do not think they should've not had one on his account - just makes it a bigger deal to me that Zane refused one, but watched his friends enjoy one)! I wanted to cry when Zane told me all of this - I immediately praised him and told him that he did everything perfect and that I was so proud of how responsible he was. I wanted to cry because of that - because I was so proud of him and to cry because at that moment, I really hated Diabetes - really hated that it made my baby "different".
Anyway, this post was not meant to be about Zane and how awesome he is with his Diabetes when mommy & daddy aren't around - it was to show how cool it was that he got to do this today - got to go to the job site!
Here are a few pics that Ben took of the boys on the site:
I checked Zane's blood sugar before he left and it was a perfect #! I told Zane that HE was in charge of his Diabetes while he was away; that no one else knew what to do - he assured me he could do it. I told him if Dex went off (his continuous glucose monitor) saying that he was HIGH that he could just clear it and let me know when he returned, but if Dex went off saying he was LOW that he needed to drink a juice out of his bag right away, then he could check his blood sugar. I also informed Ben that if Zane came to him asking for a juice that he needed to get him one out of his bag immediately!
Zane came back a couple hours later grinning frome ear to ear; he couldn't wait to tell me all about what he saw and did! On the drive to school he told me all about the pump truck, the cranes and meeting Mack one of the construction workers! I asked him if Dex went off at all and he said "nope, didn't have to check at all" - yay! He then said this to me (and I quote) "they did have donuts there and offered one to all of us, I told the guy that I would skip it unless he knew how many carbs were in it" - be still my heart. How is it that my baby is this grown up and responsible?? I asked him if Logan & Blake had a donut and he said "yeah, they did"...not only was he responsible enough to not eat one because he knew he needed insulin for it, but he then sat there and watched his two buddies eat one right in front of him (which is TOTALLY fine, I do not think they should've not had one on his account - just makes it a bigger deal to me that Zane refused one, but watched his friends enjoy one)! I wanted to cry when Zane told me all of this - I immediately praised him and told him that he did everything perfect and that I was so proud of how responsible he was. I wanted to cry because of that - because I was so proud of him and to cry because at that moment, I really hated Diabetes - really hated that it made my baby "different".
Anyway, this post was not meant to be about Zane and how awesome he is with his Diabetes when mommy & daddy aren't around - it was to show how cool it was that he got to do this today - got to go to the job site!
Here are a few pics that Ben took of the boys on the site:
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