May 2019 Endo Visit

Samuel had a great Endo appointment yesterday.  Our Endo is very supportive of our low carb lifestyle, his growth, and brain development. It's honestly only praise from the whole team, but it took us several years of conditioning them to our lifestyle to get to that point.

We only go to our Endo about every 6 months for general check-up's and prescription refills.  She calls us "self-supportive" which is fine by us.

These past 6 months have been a bit challenging.  He's had a lot of growth spurts and growing pains.  He's asked to try some new foods  - some worked great, others haven't.  He's started baseball for the first time, so we've had to figure out how to keep him steady during and after games.  All this is just to point out that diabetes with a child is constantly changing.  We learn new things all the time just like everyone else.  I was worried that his A1c would be negatively impacted because of all of this.  And to be clear, I'm not concerned about the A1c number just for sake of achieving a certain number.  I'm concerned about his A1c only in correlation to his health.

Here he is after his appointment sporting an A1c of 4.7%.

Despite challenges of T1 life, we're nearing the 4 year mark with A1c's in the 4.5 - 5.0% range.  That makes me a happy mama!