The Boss'

Celebration season is almost at at end, here at the Boss house. From the end of June to mid July we celebrate many birthdays, and our anniversary, so it’s a busy time. We wrap things up this weekend with the extended Boss family getting together out here on the farm Sunday evening for a birthday party.

It’s been fun, celebrating birthday’s with the kids. They are growing up so fast, which will sound an awful lot like a cliche. I can’t believe I have a ten year old already. That must mean I’m getting really old as well. In a way, I think that having little kids around the house helps to keep a person young. You can only act so old when you still have to go home and play hide-n-seek with a two year old. Here’s a cheat sheet to refresh the memories of our long lost friends…

• Emma – 10
• Ben – 8
• Grace – 4
• Anna – 2
• Jack – 9 months

This week has been a busy one, with Lindy and 3 of the kids involved with VBS at our church. I’ve been meeting them at church for dinner and then taking Jack and Anna to bed on time. Needless to say, that makes for a very busy week. It’s a shame that something like VBS has to turn into a net loss for the family. I know that it’s great for kids who wouldn’t ordinarily be hearing the gospel, but it definitely stresses us out. Anyway, that’s just my opinion on that.

In diabetes news, Ben had his quarterly check up last Friday, and it was an eye-opener. It didn’t go well. His A1C number jumped up from 9.5 to 9.7. (We’re shooting for low 8’s) I was really disappointed with that result because I thought that we were doing better at managing his numbers. I was chastised for not communicating with the office between visits, and not sending pump data and meter downloads. We were also told that we cannot let Ben work the pump on his own. We need to enter every bolus, or at least confirm every bolus after he does it. There are studies that show that if a child is given responsibility for doing all that when they are too young, they will get burned out when they are a teenager, and their diabetes management will suffer. This will be tough for us, because Ben really likes to do that stuff himself. I can imagine him fighting us for control. However, this last appointment showed that that arrangement wasn’t working. On a positive note, the doctor made a number of changes to his pump settings and his numbers over the last week have been great. His best numbers in a long time. He had a couple of days in a row of nearly non-diabetic numbers. Hopefully that trend continues. I’m going to try harder to communicate with his office and get them the data they need to manage his numbers better.

That’s sort of a long winded wrap up of the last few weeks out at Boss farm. Coming up we have camping, cottage, and other fun summer time stuff, so stay tuned for that.