Seeing Dr. L

Today was Emma's 6 month check up with her Endocrinologist Dr. Latif. For those of you who don't know, Emma was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes a month after her 4th birthday. She has been on the pump for 2 years. Almost a year to the day, she was diagnosed with a Thyroid problem, and a year later she was diagnosed with a kidney problem. We now have all of these "under control" (whatever that means) and deal with things day by day. As you might have guessed, I get a little nervous around those 1 year visits.

Her A1C was 7.9 (an A1C is A blood test that measures the amount of glycated hemoglobin in the bloodstream over a 120-day period.) and they would really like it to be in the low 6's or even 5's. She had a trip to the ER 2 months ago and got sick a few days and ran very high blood sugar numbers during this time so the A1C was expected to be higher.

We are going to do an ultrasound on Emma next week to check on her progress in the puberty area. Emma seems to be heading that way a little earlier than we would like. We are also getting referred to an Gastroenterologist to check on why her stomach hurts so much. The three main issues she has are all auto immune related so we did have some test run and she came up negative for the Lupus gene (Thank God)!

There are times that she gets down about how much there is to do in regards to taking care of herself but most of the time she is a normal 8 year old doing normal 8 year old things.

Such as getting bored while wating for 4 hours in the Dr. office. This is the drawing she did.



This is our wonderful Dr. Latif who is Emma's Endocrinologist.