Quiet is a Good Thing

It's 9:43 and I'm sitting in the house alone. Quiet. No tv, no radio, no talking, fighting, screaming, whining, asking, asking, asking, asking... I like quiet.

Janie and Jacob are at school. Mark's at work. I should be at the gym, but I'm at the tail end of yet another round of crud, can't go three minutes without blowing my nose, lovely. This makes three times so far this year, another sinus infection. Blech.

Pumping is going well. Janie enjoys having the pump, really enjoys it. All the extra checking and tweaking is worth it for her and I am so happy about that. She loves not doing injections and is handling the site changes so well. Again, she shows me how much crap she can deal with. We are changing her infusion site every two days, we'll do it when she gets home from school today. Mark and I are getting faster at doing them, it's not quite so foreign anymore. I'm in touch with Dr. W every two or three of days... tweak this, change that, up this, bump that down. One day soon we'll get it figured out, her numbers will be great and and then it all change - that's how diabetes is. But, I'll know better what to do on my own by then. We were tweaking MDI (multiple daily injections) by ourselves before starting the pump, and we'll be tweaking the pump ourselves soon.

I am tired. You think this has anything to do with being sick three times in seven weeks? It's hard to do anything around the house, hard to motivate myself to do anything other than what I HAVE to do - get the kids to school, pick them up, take care of Janie, bathe, do clothes when absolutely necessary, provide something to eat. I made a sour cream noodle bake last night and it was a hit, mostly, so that was good. Jacob didn't like the chopped green onions that were in it. I have been making a point to get to bed earlier, but I'm still up three of four times a night checking Janie. I'm not up long, but I'm up long enough to keep myself from getting good deep sleep. Things should settle down in a week or so. After we get pump settings tweaked I shouldn't have to be checking so much during the night. Will probably always check at least once, though.

Happy stuff... Mark and I are going on a date this weekend! It's Restaurant Week here in the Denver area. We're going to watch Elizabeth's kids Saturday while she and Tristan go out. Sunday she's going to watch J&J while Mark and I go to Elway's downtown. Janie's a bit nervous, we haven't left her with anyone since diagnosis. We're going to ask Elizabeth to pick up McDonald's for dinner. We know carb count and how she reacts to the food. Janie can test and operate the pump. I'll go over emergency stuff w/ E. It'll be good getting our with the Hubby Man for a bit.