Today we had an opportunity to see if other forms of glucose are more effective in treating Daughter's lows. She'd done well through the week. She had a slight low Thursday morning, but that was the only one she'd had. Her blood sugars had run a little higher than we like, but I wasn't complaining. So today we went to the fsetival in Town. We were standing in line for the famous sandwiches that Tiny Village's service club serves at various events. Daughter thought she was low. She she checked. Her blood sugar was 55 (we treat anything below 70). So, I dutifully pulled out the liquid glucose I bought since she'd "worn out" glucose tabs. When she'd rechecked, she'd dropped to 51. Sigh. I gave her glucose gel. She gagged and struggled and managed to eat about 70% of it. After her sandwich, she was up to 69.
Obviously the liquid glucose was not the miracle. The gel might have been a little more effective, but it's hard to say since it was the second treatment. But even it it is more effective, Daughter wasn't able to finish a full treatment, and I don't think it's fair to ask her to use something that she has to choke down.
She didn't take any insulin for her sandwich, and I had her take some after we had some apple cobbler. We wanted apple dumplings, but the YWCA had run out of them. The weather was beautiful today, so the crowd was huge. We waited in line for over 20 minutes to get our sandwiches.
We went to Walmart after the festival. I bought some more glucose tabs for Daughter. I've decided that since one treatment didn't work with our new, more expensive forms of glucose, I'm going back to the cheap, compact, easily portable version.
We got the results of her blood work in the mail today. Her cholesterol was up a little bit, but the rest was pretty good. We'll take it with us when we go see the new endocrinologist on the 29th.
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