Upper Hand

Last week, diabetes had the upper hand. It issued a series of decrees.

They included:

*Alarms will sound nightly from midnight until four a.m.

*You will wake a sleeping teenager for Cookie Monster Juice at least twice per night.

*Delirium will lead you to wonder if the nightly need for multiple juice boxes has something to do with the Cookie Monster themed branding. As in, 'Me Want More JUICEEE.'

*You will wake each morning to say, or to hear your child say, "Uck- juice box breath again. This is so gross."

*You will become so exhausted by overnight low blood sugars that you will increasingly limit dinner and bedtime boluses until the alarms turn from low to high, though still reliably from 12-4.

*You will try multiple tactics to stabilize overnight numbers and each will backfire more mysteriously than the next.

Diabetes, I have news for you. You don't get to win.

We issued only the only decree we need:

*We will not give up.

With perseverance and patience the trend is abating as mysteriously as it appeared. Maybe we finally made the right basal adjustments. Maybe we fixed the bolus dosing for the evening hours.

Or maybe it's all because we switched back to Juicy Juice boxes.