Don't be alarmed but...

Claire had to go to the ER very early this morning. She woke up at about 2am and said she had a very bad dream, and then after that she was very disoriented and confused. Mike checked her blood sugar and she was 98 which is pretty decent but he was worried she might drop more so he gave her a banana and a small bolus for it. Then he laid down with her to help her sleep. About an hour later he came and got me and said she was still very confused. She kept flinging her arms and legs around, kinda like when you are trying to go to sleep but can't quite get comfortable and your frustrated. She also had her eyes open the whole time, but was very out of it. I checked her BG and she was down to 69. I suspended her pump and tried to get her to eat some glucose tablets or drink some pop, but she refused to open her mouth. I would ask her to eat it and she would nod but then get mad when I tried to put it in her mouth. She would start crying for no reason and then stop suddenly and look around like she had no idea what was happening. We asked her questions like what her name is or who we are and she would either just shrug or say I don't know. He blood sugar after about 10 minutes of this was at 89 so she was coming up rapidly just with the pump suspended. We realized that the whole thign was probably unrelated to her diabetes, but something was still terribly wrong. I called the nurse-on-call and explained what was happening and she said she really couldn't figure out what was wrong and we should take her in to be checked. By the time we got to the ER her BG was up to 108. They did a CT scan and lots of blood tests and a urine test. The CT was fine, blood all good, but she has a slight UT infection. The DR. is unsure if this has anything to do with anything, but he said sometimes infections can cause wierd problems. We were there for about 3 hours before she finally came around and could answer all of our questions. There is also the possibility that she was just in a very deep sleep, but he said it should't take hours to come out of it like that.

Anyway, we were realeased and told to make an appointement with the pediatrician tomorrow and he will probably have her go to Akron Childrens to have an EEG and some other more extensive tests done. She has had to do this once before about 2 years ago. Eveything was normal then, but you just never know.

If anyone has heard of something lke this before and can give us some insightt please do. I don't know what is worse, to have all the tests come back normal and still have no idea what is wrong, or to have something come back irregular but at least know where to start fixing it.