Monday, January 9, 2012

onward.

I'm real people sick.

My husband is out of town today and I am on my own. So as I get ready to bring the boys to school I am VERY careful to have them all prepared diabetes wise so I don't have to bring my ashen white face and shaky aching body out of the house again.

I have to bring them to school. But I'll be darned if I'll go back to those schools today because of a simple oversight on my part.

I'm not sure what their supply boxes look like at school, so I carefully pack their backpacks to replenish them.

Just in case.

I give all three boys two extra vials of test strips.

I give all three boys apple juices for lows.

I pack all three boys cell phones and made sure every one of them was charged.

I checked all three pumps to make sure they were full of insulin and had battery life.

I checked all three pumps to make sure they all gave themselves breakfast insulin.

I check that the meter in J's backpack still has a viable battery after sitting unused for two weeks.

I double check all backpacks to make sure they put their lunches inside.

I covered it all.

Zipped them all to school, practically threw them out of the car, came home and as I walked in caught in the corner of my eye a place in the living room where the sun was hitting the couch...the perfect remedy for my chills. I grabbed a warm blanket, staggered into the living room and winced at the sight of myself in the entry mirror. Pathetic. Not pretty. That is all I have to say about that.

"Thank goodness I don't have to leave the house again until 2:00." I say to myself. "Diabetes won't be messing with me today!" Actually, that was thought up sans the exclamation mark. There was no energy left to be perky. I didn't sleep at all the night before.

As I laid down I was grateful despite myself. I thought how the boys feel nauseous from ketones and endure so much, I thought how I have acquaintances on chemotherapy who feel nauseous for days, weeks, months. I thought I won't be sick forever and that is a blessing.

And then I slept. In the warm glow of the morning sun, content and satisfied until the littles called me with their snack time numbers at 10:05.

B: 121

L: 127

My head aches and my throat feels like I swallowed a parade float, but I can rest! Joyful day!

And as I lay my head back down on my pillow, my phone says, "DING!"

That "DING!" is a text.

I reluctantly, slowly, pick up the phone and there in black and white is a text from my oldest son...who does not have diabetes:

"Hey I forgot my sax. Help please!"

Sometimes I forget I'm a mom, not just a pseudo pancreas.

Onward!

Actually today, it's more like...

onward.

15 comments:

  1. Sorry you are sick... If I could I would come right over and take care of you! Get better SOON!

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  2. Sorry you are sick... If I could I would come right over and take care of you! Get better SOON!

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  3. Oh no Meri. I'm so sorry that you are sick. But look at how you rock the pancreating even when you are not at your best. Feel better soon. (and just so you know, I purposefully refrained from using any exclamation points today.)

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  4. Feel better and stay away from the boys. :)

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  5. I hope you feel better! My mom used to bring me stuff to school as well. Brought back some memories :) You are so awesome! D mom and just mom!

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  6. What a great Mom!
    Feel better soon!

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  7. Hope you feel better soon. Poor Mom.... hope you got your rest after bringing back the sax. With four boys, three with D, relaxation must be a rare event. Not fun when you add sickness on top of that. You are a great Mom; the boys are lucky to have you.

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  8. Feel better soon, sweet Meri! I forget that I'm a mom, too. Just another side effect of life with D!

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  9. hope you are feeling better soon!

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  10. Oh, Meri. I hope you feel better soon. I wish I could help you out! Did you take the sax? I don't know what I'd do! You have to take care of you so you can take care of them after 2!

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  11. ((hugs)) Feel better soon...until then remember you are also a person who counts, not just a mama or a psuedo pancreas, but somebody who needs to be taken care of, too :)

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  12. ugh. (but L plays sax too!)

    i was real people sick last week and then i gave it to the rest of the fam. not fun at all. hang in there. <3

    and happy new year!

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  13. I'm behind on blog reading, but I hope you're feeling better by now!

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  14. You are so right on with what the morning/day is like taking care of multiple Type 1s. Thank you for your writing. I just started a blog myself - more about our soon-to-have diabetic alert dog. My blog is http://sugarmama-sugarmom.blogspot.com/ . Thanks!

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