Keeli's 3 month check up..

Keeli goes to the Endo clinic every 3 months... She rotates visits between her nurse and her doctor. Yesterday was the doctor. Her visit was good. She's at 55 pounds. Just over a year ago she weighed 38 pounds... She was 38 pounds at age 5 and age 6... 17 pounds pounds for her in a little over a year is great! It's amazing all the changes I can see in her from just a year ago.. Growing so well, and eating better are signs of a healthy child. We must be doing something right. Her A1C went up a little. It's at 7.1. I was upset to see it had gone up but for school age children they want it to be under 8. The doctor told me that when he sees consistent 6's then most likely after looking through a patients chart of numbers there are a ton of lows. Keeli has her lows and her highs, but she also has a good amount of normal in range numbers. That's what we thrive for. Every finger prick is a guessing game.. When you see that in range number it really is like winning a prize. I talked to her doctor about the artificial pancreas... I received an email from JDRF about it and I didn't know much of anything. The only thing I had read about a while back was a pancreas transplant and there is no way I'd be on board for that. Keeli can make her decisions when she grows up but for now I'm in charge. After he explained to me that it's not a transplant and that it actually is a mechanical device that is attached on the outside of her body and is smarter then I am I felt better about it. There is still kinks to work out I'm sure. But to know that one day there will be a device out there that is smart enough to read and supply insulin to adjust to ones body is amazing. I fear of malfunctions but there would be a sensor on it that would go off is something wasn't right with her or with the device. It's very interesting. I am scared to think of putting a lot of the care for Keeli into a machine but if this was to be something that could prevent long term effects of having diabetes then how could I not be in favor of it? I try not to think of all the things that can happen to her body when she grows up just from being a diabetic.. Those thought are on my mind, I just chose to filter then and push them as far back as I can. I know the damage diabetes does to the body but I also know that for as long as I'm here on Earth I'll do all I can to keep those things from happening.