Life gets different

On Dec 5th my daughter Vivian turned 6.

On Dec. 8 2008 she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I had no clue she had it. Of course in hind sight I can absolutely see it, but at the time I had no clue what I was looking at.

Here is what was going on at the time:
She drank a lot
She peed the bed 3-4 times a night
She peed her pants a few times
she complained of being tired and slept for long periods of time

On Dec. 19th she was diagnosed with Celiac Disease.
Here are the celiac symptoms:
Her stomach hurt all the time
she had diarhea almost daily from a very young age
she would wake up and throw up at night
she had dark allergy shiners
At 6 years old she weighed less than 4 lbs.

What happened on Dec 8th you wonder? Or maybe not. I'll tell you anyway. Vivian was at school and complained about not feeling well. The school called my husband at home and he suggested they let her lay down, but that she would be fine. The stomach ache was a constant complaint, she had been diagnosed with a dairy intolerance earlier in the year, and prior to that it was reflux. Nothing seemed to make it go away.

That night she wouldn't eat dinner. She complained about her stomach hurting and laid down on the couch. I put her in the hot tub to see if that would make it better. It didn't. I'm a paranoid mom, as we all are, I decided she had either appendicitis, a urinary tract infection, or strep throat. I took her to the ER at 8pm. Initially I drove off and didn't go in. I felt stupid for going to the ER for a stomach ache. We did go in though, something told me to go in.

The first thing they did was a clean catch UA. After that it's a huge blur. They did the UA and we waited. The Dr. came in and said that she had diabetes. He told me a bunch of numbers that meant exactly nothing to me. He said we were going to be admitted to the hospital in Reno and that I could drive her or they would transport her.

I called my husband in Reno at work. I called my SIL and asked her to come get my son.

After a bag of saline Vivian, Hazel, and I headed off to Reno.