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We heard the heartbeat!
March 6, 2007
Luckily my headaches went away around a week and a half ago. I'm glad because they were absolutely debilitating and awful. The weekend of Feb. 24-25 we went to a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation retreat and we learned a lot about the current research. It was both really interesting and really frustrating. Griffin has been on multiple daily injections of insulin for over a year now, and the technology, while better than what was available even ten years ago because of the different short and long-acting insulins and the smaller needles, is a lot cruder than the insulin pump. My brother has been on the pump since about 2003, and I think it is about time to get Griffin on the pump. Basically the pump is a lot more accurate--you can deliver insulin according to 1/10th of a unit accuracy versus 1/2 a unit accuracy with a syringe. Also recent advances in technology have made continuous glucose monitoring a reality, though the device to do this (basically it just measures your blood sugar every five minutes and tells you whether you're heading up or down) is still not covered by insurance or approved for children. This is all really neat stuff, but what was frustrating was to have an adult with diabetes describe the whole system as something they've been using for the last year, and show how much better the glucose control is with the monitor + pump combination, and to think that your kid is basically not getting the best care available. These devices are truly amazing, so they really need to be available to every diabetic, so that people can live longer with this disease without going blind, losing limbs, having heart attacks, etc.
In other news, on Friday we had our 12 week pregnancy appointment, and Griffin and Richard and I all heard the baby's heartbeat. Daisy was at daycare so she missed it, but she will come to either the next appointment and/or the big ultrasound. The nicest thing about hearing the heartbeat was that it really made it real for Griffin. He has been asking questions since then about prenatal care and what they do each visit, and says he wants to come along to the appointments. It's nice to see him enthused. On the flip side, Daisy finally realized that the baby will probably want to play with her toys at some point, and for the first time saw the baby as a competitor instead of just a "cute baby." Which was really funny to see her gears working on that one, but also kind of interesting how she went from being really excited to more wary. I guess all of that is pretty normal.
Well, I will write again when anything important happens. I am more busy at work now that I feel better because I didn't do much for about two weeks.
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