My sweet 2 year old just celebrated Christmas and New Years but we had started to notice he was flooding the bed at night. He seemed to be so thirsty when we picked him up from daycare that he drank a 30 oz Gatorade in the 2 mile trip home. He had gotten so thin, but I had chocked it up to a growth spurt. Visiting my inlaws one evening I was mentioning these things and my Mother in law asked if she could check Drew's blood. First I blew it off, the next time she was more insistent so we checked and it came back HIGH. We called his pediatrician and he assured us it was probably false but come in the next day. We did and his blood sugar was normal. The pediatrician assured us it was just a fluke in the meter but they did a blood panel just in case. 3 days later on a Friday we got a call that we had an appt on Monday at Texas Childrens. We showed up for the appointment and they immediately went to give him a shot, we stopped them and asked what was going on. That was the moment they gave us the diagnosis. Our lives were forever changed. However through this we realized how blessed we were that we found out like we did instead of in the hospital in DKA as most diagnosis happens. See my Father in law is also a T1D and he recognized the signs.
Drew is now 16 years old and thanks to advancement in T1D therapy he has not ever been hospitalized. We are continuing to pray for a cure.
Deer Park, TX
