(This post is from mid-August - I'll post the updates over the remainder of the week.)

Most parents I know, who have a child with diabetes, worry about any of their other kids getting a diabetes diagnosis. Most will check blood sugars on their other kids on a semi-regular basis. I know I've done it.

The last few days have filled me with concern, though. Olivia has an older brother and two younger sisters. Over the last three or four days, Boo, the nearly-three-year-old, has woken up soaked in pee. I'm talking, peed thru a diaper with a pull-up over it, drenched from armpits to knees, sheets, blankets and pillows soaking wet. Immediately, my first thought was diabetes. I checked her blood sugar two days ago and she was 68, which seems on the low side, actually.

She hasn't been too receptive to repeated blood sugar tests, but I'm going to try again today, before lunch. And then I'll put a call in to the pediatrician, to see if there's some sort of blood test they can do. I'm hoping this is maybe a urinary tract infection or something benign, something treatable with a dose of antibiotics or sulfa drugs. I know what to do if it is diabetes, but I think it will break my heart into a thousand little pieces.