Diabetes in School

Connor and Cayden both started school this past week and it has me a little rattled because of the diabetes.  Connor has been battling this for disease for 5 years now but even though he knows what to do it is still a worry.  The whole week Connor had lots of highs that we were having trouble combatting and Cayden was having lows.  We had multiple calls from both schools from the nurses office where these two spent a lot of time already.  Cayden is not recognizing when he is low and that is a big concern because his classroom is pretty far away from the office.  He was only checking at lunch but both Monday and Tuesday he was quite low so I asked for him to go up at 10:30 and then again around 2:15 just to be safe.  Since the school can't do his shot unless the nurse is there we had a crash course the week before so he could learn to check his blood sugar himself and give himself his own shot with them helping him carb count.  Connor has been waking up incredibly high each morning and it is taking until around 12 to get him back down.  Then he is fine most of the afternoon and evening, going to bed good and then waking up super high again the next day.  I tried to get a hold of his doctor last week to no avail.  So we are just doing what we can.  The nurse from Connor's school always apologizes when she calls but we tell her to please not apologize.  She told Don on Friday at the football game that usually when she had kids over 300 in her office that they would just go home.  But she says that Connor comes in happy and cheerful and always chatty and says that he does not feel bad so he goes back to class.  Last year at the middle school if he was over 300 they would not let him go to class and he would have to stay in the nurses office until he came down.  They must have a little more leeway there at the high school and let the kids make the choice themselves.  Connor is really liking school so far and so he wants to be there.  Hopefully we can get Cayden to start recognizing how he is feeling here soon.  I am glad to have good and competent people at the schools to help take care of my kids when I am not there.