Of Hospital Stays, Recovery and Other Such
Grayson was released from the children’s hospital on Thursday night just as I was mid-way through dealing with the stomach crud that I had gotten from him. The nearly hour long drive home from the hospital was a test of my endurance the likes of which I haven’t had in a long time. I thought once we made it home, things would have been better but Grayson hit a little relapse and started throwing up again and then Becky started with the same stuff around 3 in the morning. So Friday was pretty horrible. But it could have been worse, if we had had to take Grayson back to the hospital, I am not sure either one of us could have done it. In the end, God answered our prayers and Grayson recovered and we made it through it all.
Meanwhile, results with the pump have been pretty good. We’ve had a few bad numbers but overall, we’re getting great results from using it. The biggest problem were having now is keeping his site in place. Everytime he takes a bath or has to quickly pull up or down his pants, we’re apt to have the site come out. Yesterday we had to reinsert it twice. This is especially frustrating because we’ve found we have to use the numbing cream 45 minutes to an hour before attempting to reinsert the cannula . But we keep thinking we’ll figure out more secrets to the process in the near future so that he’ll be more likely to keep it on the full 3 day period. It’s a lot of hassle but the precision we’re getting from the doses and the numbers we’re achieving seem significantly better.
November 8th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Hello,
Stumbled on your site via a comment at Scott Hanselman’s blog.
I have a 10-year old son dx’d type 1 just over a year ago. He’s been on the pump since the end of January.
If you’re still having trouble with sites coming out, you might want to try using IV 3000 tape. At our endo’s suggestion, we rub on IV Prep, then put on the IV 3000 tape, rub more IV prep on surface of the tape, then insert right through the IV 3000. If you haven’t used it before, this is a clear, skin-like tape that the set seems to stick to better than his own skin.
We used to have the same problems you describe here– not anymore.
Good luck!
If you’d like to stop by my blog, it’s called A Shot in the Dark. I include links to a number of other “d-bloggers.” You might want to check some of them out.
Take care,
Sandra
November 9th, 2005 at 6:21 am
Thanks Sandra… I think we may try that. We had tried the 3000’s but we had been cutting a hole in the center and then putting them over the site to hold it down. We need to try it your way… the other way around to see if that does better.
November 9th, 2005 at 1:11 pm
We did exactly the same thing at first– cutting a hole in the 3000 (or also tried cutting a kind of V shape in the tape around the infusion set, but it never worked real well because the set itself was still being put directly on the skin.
As I said, our endo was the one who suggested inserting right through the tape… works like a charm.