Sierra looks on the bright side

As I was looking at some pictures today Seth reminded me of something that Sierra said that I just had to share. On December 9th we took a ride on the Polar Express with a group of our friends. While we were there Sierra was telling her best friend Maliya, who is 6 months older than her, "Mia, you will be 5 before me. Then you will be 8 before me." Seth then informs her, "Sierra, she will be everything before you, because she was born before you. She will always be older than you." Sierra turns to Maliya and says, with a total straight face and quite matter of fact, "Mia, you will be dead before me." Ahhh, the way kids minds work! :-)

Sierra and Mia on the Polar Express

Long week

This week Summer has been a pretty sick little girl. She wasn't feeling great on Tuesday and that night she kept waking up for water and to go pee. (Or just pee in our bed!) She threw up during the night and had a fever all night. I took her in Wednesday morning to the doctor. I assumed she had a UTI, so they had me take her to the lab 1st to give a urine sample. When the doctor came in she sat down and said, "I think what we are looking at here is diabetes. I'm gonna give you a few minutes to process this." I think I just stared at her. My 2 year old can NOT have diabetes! She had us go do a blood draw to confirm this. Her blood sugar level was 249. Her doctor was so great. She stayed with me in the room a good majority of the time while they waited for a bed for her at the hospital and for Summer's nausea to pass. I then called Seth to meet me at Doernbecher Children's hospital where they admitted her.

After we got all settled into the hospital they checked her blood sugar level and it was at 148. Hmm? That's high, but not so high they will diagnose her with diabetes. When they checked her urine at the hospital they also found no ketones, whick was what concerned her doctor in the first place. After more pokes for poor baby Summer and more tests, they decided it could just have been stress induced hyperglycemia or very very early diabetes. Oh ya, and a UTI. (Mommy knows best!) They sent us home that night with antibiotics for the UTI.

That night she was up all night again with a fever and throwing up. The next morning we decided to take her back in to see her doctor. She couldn't even take a sip of water without throwing it back up immediately. By the time my mom and I got to the doctor's office with her she was running around like usual, being crazy. The doctor said if she got sick or feverish again to bring her back in for an injection of the antibiotic. Of course, we get home, she takes a nap, and as soon as she gets up her fever goes up to 102.8. Go figure. Back to the doctor we go. (And I'm sure you can all guess how she was by the time we got there huh?!?) Oh, well. She had to get the shot anyway. 2 actually. One in each leg. It was horrible. The nurses even said this was a very painful injection. But, after some ice packs and some Princess stickers she seemed to be feeling a little better.

Then back to the doctor this morning to pick up a diabetes testing kit. They want me to check her glucose level 2x a day for a few weeks just to make sure this is not diabetes. And she has to have her blood drawn again for them to run 4 more tests. After talking with the doctor we decided to wait until she is feeling better to start poking at her again. So, on Tuesday I meet with a diabetes specialist to learn how to use the test kit and I will probably take her into the lab that day as well to have her blood drawn again. I will post again when I have any more info.

As of right now they are leaning more towards her NOT having diabetes, but please be praying for her. And ME!! Thanks!



Summer in her hospital crib up at Doernbecher.