Since Olivia had her turn with the 12 hour, puke-til-your-stomach-turns-inside-out bug, her blood sugars have been running low. I kind of expected it yesterday, but today they've been hovering around 60 for far too long for my liking.

I had her disconnect for a while, which helped, but as soon as she hooked back up again, she started dropping again. It's very weird. Is this normal? She's never had this happen before when she's had a stomach thing, but then, she hasn't had a stomach thing quite this badly in a very long time.

I've been checking her a lot more frequently than usual - and we already check 8 - 12 times a day - so I'm seeing these precipitous drops and they're kind of freaking me out. I think I'm going to have to dial back her midnight to 3 a.m. basal rate because she woke up yesterday and this morning at 50. That's verging on scary low, as far as I'm concerned.

I hate dialing back the basals. I don't know why, but I do. Most of the time when I do it, she runs sky high for days. Even if I just dial back one basal rate (she has 5 rates). It's like that one little tweak throws everything off. I'd almost rather give her juice and peanut butter sandwiches than cut the basal rate.

The one thing this 12 hour puke-a-thon showed me, though, was that her day time basal rates are spot on. She didn't eat anything all day on Monday (except one popsicle) and she was bang on target for the entire day. Except for the whole puke thing, it was great. It's about the only good thing I can say about this stomach bug. It's been a nasty one. I think my washing machine will go on strike if anyone gets sick in the near future.