In order to make life easier when figuring out insulin dosages, I put together this spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org Calc, a free, open source office suite that is an extremely capable alternative to the proprietary Microsoft © Office suite. I'm making the spreadsheet publicly available for download in both formats, so users of both suites will be able to use them, however I highly encourage you to check out the OpenOffice.org suite.
Download OpenOffice.org version
Download MS © Office version
Whenever we have a change in her dosages, I just plug in her new numbers, and print. The chart is very easy to use. just plug in your target blood sugar, sensitivity factor, and carbs per unit numbers, and the chart will calculate your carb dose, and corrective dose. It is based on the formula we use for Tori as follows:
corrective dosage units = (blood sugar - target blood sugar) / sensitivity
total dose = carb dose + corrective dose
Hope someone finds it useful...
Monday, November 21, 2005
Saturday, November 19, 2005
The 2005 Walk Awards
I'm a little behind with this entry, but such is life at my house, I'd be behind if I had a head start. Anyhow, we had our awards dinner this last Monday, and after a few battles with scanners, and my most despised software company's imaging software, I got the pictures scanned, resized, and uploaded to my server.
Let's start with the team awards, because if it weren't for everyone collectively, and by that I mean every single participant in the walk itself, we wouldn't have raised the $33,000 some odd dollars that we raised. My team rocked and rolled their way into second place in dollars raised, and yet still was able to raise the highest dollar per walker average.
Kudos to my whole team, and also Ashlen's team who rose to the challenge I laid out at the beginning of the walk to beat my team this year! On the left is the award for the team, and on the right is a picture of most of the team (not everyone was able to show up on walk day).
For my volunteer participation as the corporate chairperson for the 2005 walk I was pleasantly surprised to receive this certificate of appreciation as an award. Fitting, I thought, because I appreciated the opportunity to hopefully make a difference in my daughter's quality of life, as well as the lives of all diabetics ;)
In addition to the wonderful surprise above, I was also awarded the first annual traveling trophy for the top individual fundraiser. My heart and my thanks go out to each and every one of you that helped me bring this jewel home for the first year, and I hope to count on you next year, and every year until the day I can tell my little girl I don't have to give her an insulin injection ever again.
I may not have had the top team this year, but I'm not giving up. Ashlen's team, I'll be back next year to challenge you again! And as for the rest of the teams, the challenge remains for any and all of you to try and outdo me next year.
Let's start with the team awards, because if it weren't for everyone collectively, and by that I mean every single participant in the walk itself, we wouldn't have raised the $33,000 some odd dollars that we raised. My team rocked and rolled their way into second place in dollars raised, and yet still was able to raise the highest dollar per walker average.
Kudos to my whole team, and also Ashlen's team who rose to the challenge I laid out at the beginning of the walk to beat my team this year! On the left is the award for the team, and on the right is a picture of most of the team (not everyone was able to show up on walk day).
For my volunteer participation as the corporate chairperson for the 2005 walk I was pleasantly surprised to receive this certificate of appreciation as an award. Fitting, I thought, because I appreciated the opportunity to hopefully make a difference in my daughter's quality of life, as well as the lives of all diabetics ;)
In addition to the wonderful surprise above, I was also awarded the first annual traveling trophy for the top individual fundraiser. My heart and my thanks go out to each and every one of you that helped me bring this jewel home for the first year, and I hope to count on you next year, and every year until the day I can tell my little girl I don't have to give her an insulin injection ever again.I may not have had the top team this year, but I'm not giving up. Ashlen's team, I'll be back next year to challenge you again! And as for the rest of the teams, the challenge remains for any and all of you to try and outdo me next year.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Bittersweet fellowship
I got a sad email from one of the Walk committee members Friday (Nov 11). Her sister just returned from an area children's hospital where her three year old son was diagnosed with type I diabetes. Even though she was diagnosed at age ten, she doesn't have the insight of being diabetic at age three, nor the insight of a parent of a three year old.
I told her we would be more than happy to talk with her sister, having
already been in their shoes, and wishing we'd had someone to talk with when we were at that stage.
One of the biggest issues we've had to face was lack of support in our area. I've heard of a support group or two, but they're all for adults from what I've seen. Unfortunately, since children as young as these two (mine and the sister's) are in the minority numberwise, we don't seem to run across many other parents of diabetic children. Believe me when I tell you that we need others to talk with, and compare notes, and stories, and tips. It would even be nice now and again to be able to find out about diabetic-friendly babysitters that other parents have discovered.
Maybe this will be he start of something in our area, time will tell...
I told her we would be more than happy to talk with her sister, having
already been in their shoes, and wishing we'd had someone to talk with when we were at that stage.
One of the biggest issues we've had to face was lack of support in our area. I've heard of a support group or two, but they're all for adults from what I've seen. Unfortunately, since children as young as these two (mine and the sister's) are in the minority numberwise, we don't seem to run across many other parents of diabetic children. Believe me when I tell you that we need others to talk with, and compare notes, and stories, and tips. It would even be nice now and again to be able to find out about diabetic-friendly babysitters that other parents have discovered.
Maybe this will be he start of something in our area, time will tell...
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