September 15, 2011

Today is the day.  We started the raw milk diet for Olivia's diabetes.  It's been a few months reading, praying and deciding what to do.  But now the time has come.

I traveled to Gretna, Our Father's Farm, for my raw milk yesterday - picking up 5 1/2 gallons of the 7 gallons needed for this week.  She'll be drinking one gallon of milk per day.

The day started eventful, with 35 baby chicks coming in the mail so I had to run to the post office and pick them up first thing.  I missed Olivia waking up, but she said she awoke to the phone ringing at 6a.m. anyway.  When I returned from town, I got her laying down, had her check her sugar and it was at 130 to start the day, she gave herself 2 units of insulin  and I gave her her first 2 cups of milk to last the first hour.  After listening to Nancy Lee DeMoss at 8:30 and drinking another 2 cups,  she went to the family room to watch I Love Lucy.  I had to run back to town for a heat lamp so I gave her a cup to drink at 9:30.  We were going to do it on the hour, but it seemed to work better taking 1 cup every half hour.  She wanted a two hour break before checking her sugar at lunchtime, so we stopped drinking at 10:30 a.m.

At 10:00 she got her warm bath, only staying in the tub about 1/2 hour.  I finally finished her new nightgown made out of a blue calico so she was excited to wear it and lay out on the front porch with the kittens.  At 12:30 she checked her sugar and it was at 80, so we decided she should only take 1 unit of insulin for the afternoon.  She drank another cup of milk at 12:30 and then one at 1:00.  She fell asleep and I was cutting lawn, so she didn't get another cup until 2:30 and then I was able to give her a back massage for about 15 minutes. 

A cool wind started blowing in so we came inside the family room, leaving windows and door open to have the air circulating and she was hungry, so she drank another cup of milk at 4:30, while watching a little TV.  Now she is having doubts.  This is really getting difficult and she wants to eat walnuts.  A big bowl of buttery popcorn would even be better!

Dinner milk was at 6:00 and another cup was at 7:00 during milk.  that about did it for the first day.  Olivia was very tired at 9:00 and went to bed after changing to a new nightgown.

The first day has been accomplished.