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Jenna's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 8/16/02 -------------------- 8/2/02 7/19/02 4/27/02 4/15/02 2/24/02 1/21/02 1/4/02 12/5/01 10/22/01 10/2/01 8/30/01 8/17/01 7/26/01 7/7/01 6/30/01 6/13/01 5/17/01 4/30/01 4/19/01 4/9/01 3/30/01 3/15/01 3/9/01 2/24/01 2/19/01 2/15/01 2/7/01 1/31/01 1/26/01 1/16/01 1/9/01 1/2/01 12/27/00 12/18/00 12/4/00 11/28/00 11/16/00 11/13/00 11/8/00 10/24/00 10/10/00 9/27/00 9/12/00 9/5/00 8/28/00 8/21/00 8/7/00 7/25/00 7/18/00 7/3/00 6/26/00 6/20/00 6/13/00 6/6/00 5/31/00 5/23/00 -------------------- Jenna's Introduction

September 27, 2000

For the past year, Aaron has been having weak spells. My sister, mom and I have weak spells caused by low blood sugar. For us it is manageable, but I've been worrying about Aaron. (He is jumping on my back at this very moment.) He shakes and cries 'the cry.' You know, the one that strikes terror in the hearts on moms and dads. It is the cry that you don't recognize. It is not the hungry, sleepy, hurt, sad, angry, messy or frustrated cry. It is the cry that says something is really wrong.

I hadn't known it was a problem, but we have often joked that Aaron is always hungry and thirsty. Well, Mom decided to talk to someone she works with about Aaron's possible low blood sugar. The lady is a diabetes nurse. After talking with my mom she was concerned enough to tell my mom that we need to start checking Aaron's weight every week to be sure that he doesn't suddenly lose weight. She also suggested we may want to get him tested for diabetes. She said that even if he doesn't have diabetes now, that low blood sugar can turn into diabetes. She gave my mom some info for us to read.

I don't know anything about diabetes. I'm not sure if I am even spelling it right. Is Aaron really at risk? I don't know. What does it mean if he is? Shots. No sweets. I don't know what else. All I know is that I don't want to have a sick son. I assume he will be OK. Bad things don't happen to my family. Is that weird to say? I guess we will just have to wait and see. My mother-in-law has diabetes, adult onset I think. Does that affect Aaron? I guess we will have to wait and see.

Aaron stood at the top of the stairs today and called "Dada home." Dada is not home. It breaks my heart thinking about him missing his daddy and not knowing when he'll see him again. Wes may be moving home for good by Oct 9, but I don't know for sure and I am not telling my kids until it is definite.

Aaron is such a daddy's boy and that has made it harder on both of them. Aaron hasn't seen Wes since July. Kirk was able to fly out and visit in August, but it has still been too long for him, too.

I had been worrying about Aaron's speech. He has a cousin four days older than him and boy can he talk. I was worrying that maybe I'd done something wrong or worse -- that something was wrong with Aaron and that was why his speech wasn't progressing. Well, all of the sudden Aaron has become a talker. In the last few weeks his working vocabulary has doubled and he can express his needs and wants, and boy does he. He has been picking up some things outside of the home.

One day out of nowhere Aaron started singing the ABC song. I hadn't thought of teaching him myself. (I think we have been treating him like more of a baby since Anne has been born.) After that I've started telling him about colors and shapes and such and though he doesn't respond to that at all yet, I am feeling good about the time we spend talking together.