Your Type 1 Diabetes lesson for the day!! January 8, 2009

So Tuesday was the big visit to the pediatric Endocrinologist. We go every three months to check in with him, see how things are going and have Joshua’s A1C’s ran. A1C’s are kind of like a report card. They are the average of your blood sugar over the past three months. A person without diabetes has A1C’s under between 4 and 6%. Lower A1C’s directly correlate to less long term complications. Joshua had great numbers in December. We were very excited to see his A1C.s and were sure that they had dropped a bunch. We were too optimistic. Although Dr. Miller says we are doing a Fabulous job (he used the word Fabulous, not me). It only went from 7.9 to 7.8. So, we plug along and try to continue our roll of good numbers hoping to see that A1C continue to come down. Next update will be in April. I never liked report cards!!
Mom