First day...

Hi All! Whoa. What a day. Had thought I might be able to get an update out mid day, but, uh, no. Crazy town.

Hannah got breakfast. At breakfast time. And I'm telling you - no one has appreciated pancakes more than that kid did this morning. Breakfast was a teaching opportunity as we learned to check blood sugar, count carbs, calculate insulin and administer it.

We got visited by what felt like every department - social work, psych, education and teams of doctors and nurses...everyone is really awesome. Education was really about what diabetes is and what we do about it. Lunch, snack and dinner (and snack again (good grief, this kid has had these nurses at her beck and call)) more learning -- and really it was up to Hannah to manage things.

She did such a great job. She's pretty much adjusted to all of the things she needs to do...just a bit of practice pulling the insulin as it's a really tiny syringe.

Funny what hindsight does. Now that she's leveled out -- there are things that clearly were because of blood sugar. Life is strange.

Tomorrow and Friday will be more of the same - more practice more learning more questions and more answers. Assuming we know enough, we will go home on Friday. If not, we'll hang til we know enough.

In theory, Han will go back to school on Tuesday. Meeting with the nurse on Monday at school. She doesn't have a full time nurse - so we have to figure out if we have an adult who is willing to help verify her insulin calculations at lunch/snack times. If not, we may be facing a school change (which would be a real nightmare) so cross your fingers. At this point, I'll probably work from home a couple days next week so I can go up at lunchtime to work through things. But who the heck knows....that is a lot of days away and a lot of learning too.

Han seems to be coming to grips with people knowing. Had lots of visitors -- and she even did her calculations and insulin shot in front of quite a crowd tonight. Everyone seems very impressed with her maturity, smarts and her adjustment to all of this.

Thanks to everyone for the kind notes, texts, facebook posts and checkins. Trying to get back as I can - thanks for your patience. During the day we're pretty much full on learning all day. Cody is hanging with Jim, as is Daisy. Han and I are in pretty good shape. Thanks for all the offers of help etc. We're doing well and don't need anything really other than what you've all already been doing.