"The best day ever..."

  Kaden now is completely dependent on the his pump.  We went in yesterday to get insulin put in his pump, along with more education for mom and dad.  He is enjoying not having to have injections, only a site change every three days. 
  As we prepared in the morning for the trip to the doctor to get insulin in his pump he walked into my bedroom and said "this is the best day of my life I get my insulin".  I couldn't help but chuckle at his comment but it brought me great relief thinking that today would go better than the first visit.  This easiness was going to change as we traveled the two hours to his doctor though.  As we got closer he became very talkative--a sign of his nervousness/ excitement.  He talked about how he would get insulin and wouldn't need shots.  He talked about trains and other things.  We knew that this meant that he was either nervous or excited but we wouldn't know for sure until we got to the doctor's office and we prepared to change the site and put insulin in his pump. 
  Kaden was once again terrified of the process.  We did what we could to ease his uncertainty, this time no bribery of toys we had learned our lesson.  We ended up having to hold him to achieve our ultimate goal.  Normally this would concern a parent but we knew that this was only temporary.
  Our first day completely on the pump didn't come without some complications.  We found that he was too low after his meal dosages.  With this concern we called the on call nurse to find out what we should do.  We ended up increasing his carbohydrate to insulin dosage, meaning he is getting more carbohydrates to one unit of insulin.  This has helped some but we are almost positive that there will be more adjustment in the next couple of days before the doctor is comfortable, and we are comfortable.
  This will continue to be a learning process, a never ending learning process. Tomorrow we go in for his check up with the doctor and we shall see what happens.  We know that there will always be adjustments but for now I hope we can come up with a happy medium... for a little while anyway.