A Day in the life of a type 1 diabetic

To get an idea of our daily schedule.... here it is (this is a "normal" day)

730 am-Hannah wakes up for school and we check her blood sugar
745 am-Hannah eats her breakfast after counting every gram of carbohydrates in her meal
8:00 am-Hannah gets her insulin dose
9:00 school starts

while at school she gets her blood sugar checked at 11:45am before lunch. Eats her lunch, then back to the nurses office to calculate her carbs and gets her insulin.
She gets her blood sugar checked every day before and after gym class and before dismissal at the end of the day

3:30pm- Blood sugar checked when she gets home from school. Hannah has a 15 Gram carbohydrate snack
5:00pm blood sugar checked
515 pm eats dinner, calculating carbs
545 Insulin yet again
730pm check blood sugar
745 pm 15 Gram carb snack before bed

830pm bedtime insulin injection

2am-blood sugar checked, often she is low so we are up for 2 hours some nights trying to get her blood sugar to come up.. lots of juice boxes and cheese sticks in our refridgerator


*one day last week i got a call from the school nurse, Hannah's blood sugar was 42. Very scary for me.. I thank God everyday she has the nurse she has at school. She takes excellent care of Hannah

Here is a picture of our medication/diabetes supplies drawer