A Nice View of the Parking Lot

Today was the day for our annual walk for JDRF. Ashton and Chadd drove separately from me and Lorelei because Chadd had a later engagement in a suite for the Lions game. As I was following Chadd down the long winding road into the park, he quickly pulls over onto the grass. I quickly pull over as well and run back to his car. Ashton had thrown up and Chadd was doing a glucose check. Ashton was high, but not unusually so. We decide to finish heading back to the walk and park the cars.

Ashton insisted that he was fine and that he was hungry, but he kept spitting up small amounts of vomit. We could not figure out what was wrong and Ashton said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, my tube came out." So, the kid was not getting any insulin and even though his blood glucose wasn't extremely high, he was spilling ketones (when there's no insulin to provide cells with energy, the body burns fats that spill acids into the blood stream) and it was making him sick. So we kicked into emergency plan. No walking today, we needed to head home. I put some numbing cream on his belly, gave him an insulin injection, and finally a new pump site.

We've been coming to this event for 6 years and this was the first time that we didn't get to walk. And in all of those years, we have had beautiful weather. It poured for this walk so it's not like I was too broken hearted over heading home early.

Here are the pictures from this years non-walk. They're pretty exciting if you've never seen cars parked on grass before.

And just in case you've seen cars parked on grass before, here are pictures of the kids: