Time to slow down!

One of the hardest things about having the pumps is trying to give the kids enough positive changes to know they are on to something good, without upsetting the delicately, if not at all, balanced apple cart.

We have been to the cinema today, to see 10,000 BC (which was pleasantly and surprisingly, given the lack lustre reviews, entertaining) a treat the boys picked out when they saw the preview a few weeks ago. One of the things they have always hated most about going to the cinema is having to walk past all the piles of popcorn, the multi-coloured chemical liquids that pass for ‘drinks’ and the stuff I can only refer to as devil’s ice, which once made Joe go off the monitor and cry with the highness of it when a friends mum got him some, nasty, scary, what is it doing to me, slush!

So on this visit they were very excited about being able to choose something to eat without having to go through pulling up trouser legs etc etc whilst everyone files past into the auditorium. Joe chose Butterkist (yikes) and Tom a bag of M&M Peanuts. Why is it that these cinema packs of treats have to be enough to feed an entire family. Can’t they just put out the single person packs. They could still charge us fifty times its actual value, but I wouldn’t have to explain that the few bits of popcorn at the bottom of a gigantic box is actually about a single portion size. No matter how much you tip out of one of these bags it seems stingy. But the actual bag is about the carb value of three pizzas!

So a guesstimate later and two glum ‘come on mum give us more than that’ faces, they end up bolusing for more carb than their breakfast and lunch combined!

Two hours later, sitting in the dark and obviously not being very active or energetic all afternoon, Tom is on 18.2mmol and Joe is on 21.2mmol. Sigh. Corrections given, quick climb up a big hill in Canterbury Dane John Gardens, where they used to put the gibbet high up so everyone could see the criminals swing, and several matches of tennis on the Wii, and they are back in range.

But its the fact that nothing is simple and working. I want the pumps to be easy and this period of time where it is all being adjusted just isn’t easy. Don’t expect everything to fall simply into place. It is taking lots of time to get the basals right - though Tom’s are spot on for normal amounts of activity at the mo - and I have to keep reminding myself to keep it simple.

So tomorrow will be a simple day for us all. Just in time for Easter, and all that chocolate.