Our first hypoglycaemic seizure

​For the past few days Harrison’s glucose levels have been doing great but he has been fighting an ear infection which seems to be messing about with his ketones, however, this could be in combination with a new lower carb dietary adjustment that we have made as well. This morning, as I dropped him off at his Grossie (grandmother) he was particularly ratty so I decided to test his ketones before driving off. As suspected they were high: 1.9.

Aside from the additional bolus, several factors played a role in Harrison’s levels dropping to a level that our meter just spat out a “Lo” reading for. When we got the call (my husband and I each at our place of work), and the words “he’s not taking in yoghurt or juice”, and then “he’s jerking” our adrenalin just kicked in and we flew to our cars to get to Harrison as quickly as possible. Elna, Harrison’s wonderful Grossie, remained as calm as she could and with Rowan talking her through it over the phone managed to give Harrison the Glucagon injection he needed to stabilize him again!

Today had to be the scariest day of our lives (aside from the day Harrison was diagnosed). Grossie, my superheroine still dressed in her nightgown, shoved Beauty and Harrison into her car and flew down to the nearest Dr where we met her. By this stage he had already stabilized and was looking much better. The Dr gave him a quick once over and was very understanding telling us that we did the right thing, that it was bound to happen, and that it will happen again. This is the life of a Type 1 Diabetic.

We have spent the past few days signing papers and organising the new Medtronic Guardian Connect CGM for Harrison. If it arrives this week it will definitely not have come at a better time! After a day like today I seriously wish we had this device like “yesterday”, literally!