Today is Mothers Day and while yesterday was a wonderful day (celebrated Ali's 1st birthday with a pool party), today was a day of duty. Everyone is sick, except me and Ali. Ava and Ty started running a high fever last night. Around midnight I woke up to Ty vommiting, him having diabetes only complicated things. From that point I woke up every 3 hours to check his blood sugar and ketones (which is the very opposite of what you want to happen). His blood sugars kept dropping while his ketones got higher. Since he couldn't keep anything down we had to break out the big guns and give him shots of gluocogan, which we had to do twice during the night (when I say we I mean I...Jeff slept on the couch). Our plan was to tag team. I would be on duty until the morning then Jeff would take over and I would sleep. Seriously there is no point to us both losing sleep? Except that when the morning came...Ty was worse and the Endocrine doc. at the childrens hospital told us to take him to the ER. With little to no sleep I was called to mom duty again and Ty and I spent the morning in the ER while he got an IV drip, medicine for nausea, and some blood work done. It really wasn't an emergency situation, more of just a prevention to an emergency but all the while necessary to get things under control. His diabetes just makes sick days complicated. He is now able to keep things down but we are still stuggling to get his blood sugar under control. When Ty and I got home Jeff took Ali out to run errands while the rest of us took a 3 hour nap...actually Ty is still asleep working on 5 hours.


This is not the mothers day I envisioned. In my mind we would have grilled out, played with kids the in the back yard, and watched the kids play in the kiddy pool.
Even though it is mothers day I'm glad I have Jeff to be the daddy and help with the duty. Because after a long night and day, the only thing I wanted for mothers day was a long nap...and that's exactly what I got.