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Diabetes is no fun.

It’s hard, scary, intimidating, and exhausting a whole lot of the time.  It’s surely not hard to see the downside of this disease.  But, every once in a while God shows me that there is an upside too.

Earlier in the week I posted this picture on Facebook.

We’d had a GREAT day of numbers, thanks to Ruby’s alerting.  The within/above/below goal percentages we got that day are pretty common, but the min and max don’t always end up so close to our target range.  I just had to take a picture.

Now that Ruby is with us, we have more good number days than bad.  But, diabetes is still diabetes, and it still likes to throw its weight around.  Ruby is phenomenal, but all she can do is alert me to a bg problem and hope I can fix it.

I had no more posted that picture when things started going haywire.  The next two days were double arrow up, double arrow down kind of days.  No matter what I did, I couldn’t get Faith off that blood sugar roller coaster.  Then, tonight she had a site failure and needed a pod change.

Right at bedtime…of course.

Faith always wants one of her older siblings to hold her hand while she gets her pod changed.  Usually it’s her Bubby, but tonight she wanted Grace.

While I was working to loosen the adhesive of the old pod, Faith was crying.  Grace was holding her and trying to console her.  She kept saying, “I know, baby.  I know it hurts.”  Then, she stopped herself, looked at Faith and said, “You know what?  I shouldn’t say that.  I have no idea what it’s like.  I’ve never gone through anything like this.  But, I do know that you’re the bravest, strongest little girl I know, Faith.  You know that?”  To which Faith replied, “Yep.” (haha!)

All the while, I’m working to remove the old pod and insert the new one.  Grace looks at me and says, “Mom, I just don’t know how you do it.  I hope I can take as good of care of my children when I’m a mom.  You know you’re such a good influence on me, right?  I watch you take care of Faith and I know its hard, but you do a good job, Mommy.”

Um.  Which one of us is the grownup again?

And, um, could someone pass the kleenex?

Diabetes stinks, but it has cultivated such a compassionate, mature spirit in these children.  I found this on Pinterest, and I loved it.

 

I’m still not sure I can say that I’m thankful for diabetes, but it darn sure is helping to mold my children into some precious, beautiful people.

I’ve been feeling really weary lately, and I so needed to be reminded that there is always something to be thankful for if I’ll just stop and look…or listen to my 8 year old…

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