Tailgate

Well, it's Friday night and we are at the B High School tailgating with friends before the game. We have way too much food laid out already but more people come with desserts, side, and drinks to join us. I watch as the guys are playing a game of football in the grass and the girls are gathered around laughing and talking. I have been trying to get Emma to be the main person responsible for getting all of her diabetic stuff together and making sure she has enough snacks in case she goes low. So when it comes time to prick before dinner and she doesn't have any strips for her meter...what do you you? After searching through your car, and finding many other things that had been lost, but no strips, you get inventive. I started asking around if any of the other diabetic kids had been seen at any of the pre-game festivities. NONE!! I'm about to have a "come apart" when a friend says to me, "Go see the paramedics in the ambulance, they will have a kit"! So off we go. The paramedics were there a bit late (Emma had already eaten dinner and we bolused for her food but still needed to see if she was high) but we finally found them.

Jewel and the guy paramedic (couldn't understand his name) were very sweet to her and took her blood sugar for me. She was 81 so we got some carbs for her for the long night of running around she had ahead of her.





We had a great time at the game, Nolan and Emma ran around with friends the whole time. They came to check in every once in a while but other than that we didn't see them much. This was B's first home game so everyone was there. It was so good to see the kids having such fun. I got a pic of Emma with some friends but Nolan didn't spend enough time sitting still for one.



The game...we left at the 4th quarter but the score was 24 to nothing.