Type 1 Diabetes, part 1

My daughter Erianna has had Type 1, Insulin-Dependant Diabetes since she was 4 years old. She's now almost 7. Every day, she gets 4 finger pokes to test her blood sugar, and 4 shots of insulin, one at each meal and before bed. How did she get diabetes? That is unknown. What I do know is how she was acting before she was diagnosed.

Erianna started not wanting to eat her favorite foods. Then she started not eating at all. She wanted to lay on the couch all day long. Then she started constantly going to the bathroom and drinking water. Lastly, she started vomitting with no fever. She began to look like a child you see in an impoverished country. We thought she was depressed for the fact we had moved away from her friends and that I had to go back to work after being a stay-at-home mom.

One Saturday I woke up with a bladder infection. I thought maybe she had one also. So we went to the ER together, and peed in cups together. I had a bladder infection, and she had ketones in her urine (fat turning itself into sugar and coming out in her pee, not good.) With a finger poke, her blood sugar read 1,034, with a normal blood sugar not above 120. Had we not caught her when we did, she soon would have gone into a coma and possibly died.
We were rushed to a hospital 3 hours away where we received a crash course in giving shots, taking blood sugar readings, adjusting for sick days, and the like. Within 2 days of receiving insulin, Erianna was back to her normal, silly singing self.

This concludes part 1

Jenn!