My son’s T1D device alerts has created a Pavlov’s dog’s effect in my daughter
Last year my 5 year old son got diagnosed with T1D. He used a CGM right off the bat and after a few months of MDI we got him on an insulin pump. As you all know, all of these devices have alarms for lows, highs and other things. My 2 year old daughter has recently put together that most often these alarms means my son gets juice. If we can catch him in a more steady decline before he is low, we often give skittles or hi chews, which my daughter has also noticed. She now has started coming over to wherever we are taking care of my son in these instances and asks for some of whatever he is getting. My daughter is jabbering a lot and some of what she says we can understand, but some of it is still indiscernible to us. Today as we sat down to start eating lunch my son’s pump was going off that he was low and my daughter pointed to him and said “he’s ringing” very clearly. It made me chuckle a bit what she has started putting together recently in regard to his alerts and things happening to correct a low. Now every time I am correcting a low for my son I have to tell my daughter that she has to wait her turn but she can have whatever he is having after I take care of him. Thought other people who understand the struggles with T1D might get a chuckle out of this also. Trying to find some humor and silver linings in our diabetes journey.