Another one of those nights

Another one of those nights when I long for the moment I'll close my eyes and move directly into deep sleep, elegantly skipping through all the other sleep stages, to make the most out of those 5 hours left until my alarm clock beeps... I take a quick look at my sleeping angels, cuddled in their beds, and my (somewhat noise) puppy, that opens one eye and gives me a tired look. I check my daughter's blood sugar, like I do every night before I go to sleep, it became my new habit about 3 years ago. It doesn't wake her up and sure helps me sleep better, I usually just correct high blood sugars with a press of a few buttons on her pump, and try to avoid those cases of low blood sugar that are harder to fix. But then it strikes me and just sheds away my sleepiness at once... 55. Sometimes low blood sugars wake her up, sometimes it wakes me up. I was hoping it will wake our dog up but other than starring at me from her crate, she doesn't seem to be too worried. Low blood sugars, especially at night, can be dangerous and in most cases are not really expected and therefore not always avoidable. So I rush into the kitchen and make some extra sweet chocolate milk. A cup of juice could have been helpful now but even when asleep my daughter just doesn't like juice. I have abandoned the 15 rule long ago. Basically you need to give 15 gr of carbs to correct a low, then wait 15 minutes and recheck blood sugar. Still too low? Repeat the previous steps, wait again 15 minutes and so on. I prefer solving late night issues of this sort faster, especially when I want to have some spare time left to sleep, some people need that from some reason. And also, I believe that having a high blood sugar for a short period of time is way better than having a low blood sugar for too long, and so Over-treating a low blood sugar is my middle name, right after Over-protective mom. And so I let her have her chocolate milk, she is fast asleep but since she likes chocolate milk so much, especially from a sippy cup and especially in bed, a short cue like:"honey, here is your chocolate milk" just automatically brings her to a sitting position, take the sippy cup out of my hands and drink. But since a 55 might be hard to bring up I have a small bag of gummy candies for her, her favorite. Now waking her up to eat candies in the middle of the night might be almost every child's dream, but she sits up and falls back asleep after chewing on the first candy, still some more candies to go... There might be an easier way to bring her blood sugar up but those candies just do it the fastest and so are the best next thing after a juice box, since sliced bread would just not do. Then I wait for some time and recheck her blood sugar; 200... I sigh with relief, mildly high but can easily be corrected with yet another press of the button. Now I can finally go to sleep. So until there's a better solution, a one that will not pose the risk of hypoglycemia, we will have to settle for a bedtime blood sugar check and keep the chocolate milk and candies handy.