Constance
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Well, I guess 10 years old is past being a baby, but my little grandson is in Barnes Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He'd had the stomach flu all weekend, and kept getting weaker and weaker, and my daughter took him to the doctor yesterday. Not only was he dehydrated, but his blood sugar level was 400, even though he hadn't eaten anything in two days. The doctor sent him to the hospital (a bigger one, down the road from us), and told my daughter not to be surprised if they didn't send him to St. Louis. When he got to the hospital, they checked his sugar again, this time from the wrist instead of the finger, and the level was 644. They put him on an insulin/saline drip and called Barnes Hospital. Barnes sent a special team in a helicopter, and 40 minutes later he was in their ICU.
Daughter called this morning, and his sugar's under 250 now, which is as low as they want it to go with the drip, and they'll be moving him to a regular room sometime today. The doctor told her that their biggest concern was that the brain could swell, and they came in every hour to wake him up and ask him his name, birthday, etc. Thank goodness that didn't happen.
He does have juvenile diabetes, and the doctor says he'll be on shots of insulin from here on out. Sigh...poor little guy.
Daughter called this morning, and his sugar's under 250 now, which is as low as they want it to go with the drip, and they'll be moving him to a regular room sometime today. The doctor told her that their biggest concern was that the brain could swell, and they came in every hour to wake him up and ask him his name, birthday, etc. Thank goodness that didn't happen.
He does have juvenile diabetes, and the doctor says he'll be on shots of insulin from here on out. Sigh...poor little guy.
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