We had one of those nights last night.  Will’s blood glucose was 140 before dinner, then 212 after so I went to bed, content, at 9.

Only to be woken at 11.

He was 340.  For no good reason.

We did a site change.  Which, for some reason, is far worse for me to face at 11 p.m. than, say, 3 a.m.  At 11 p.m. not even *I* am crazy enough to think, Well, I’ve slept a bunch of hours.  Maybe I’ll just stay up and get a load of stuff done.

I couldn’t rationalize staying up at 1 a.m. either, when I woke to check Will to be sure the new site was working.

Nights like these–and we seem to have them weekly!–make me really want to cure this disease.

Which is why I would urge you–if you have a kid with T1D between the ages of 4 and 17–to apply to Children’s Congress.

If selected, you and your kid get to go to Washington next July to tell our leaders that this disease sucks!

And that more and more people are getting it!

And that we don’t know why!

You can urge them to renew the crucial Special Diabetes Program, which means the donation of $150 million per year through 2013.  We need to be sure this funding continues.

Here is the link to the application.

https://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=115193

If you or your kid had a rough night, or a rough morning, or a rough day last week, let the government know all about it.  So we can all get a good night’s sleep.