For many Spokane-area Public Schools, including Lincoln Heights, this includes a Fit For Bloomsday program after school, that teaches stretching, hydration & running, Running, RUNNING.
This provides unique challenges for a T1D student. Por ejemplo...
Once this week, upon the bell ringing I pulled my student aside like always and did a Bg check. 63?!? Okay, well - here's a snack, with glucose tablet chaser - we'll test again in a few minutes. By the time they took attendance, got everyone lined up & completed stretching was about 20 minutes, back up to 110 - better, but not "go ahead & run for 1/2 hour" better, so my instructions were to do 2 laps, then stop to check again. As you can imagine, it's tough to build momentum when you're stopping 10 minutes in, but you do what's necessary - and for me, what was necessary was making sure he was still heading up, or at least level.
Sure enough, now he was 128 - yay, but not "go ahead & run another 20 minutes" yay. Thus the instructions to do another 3 laps, enough to total a mile, and then pause again. By the time those laps were complete, he had become distracted and bored and ready to be done. Having completed his mile, I decided to accept this. He moved to the bleachers and became a cheerleader for the other kids. "Way to go!" "Keep going!" "Twelve laps? That's great!"
He knew we couldn't leave because I am ostensibly a volunteer for the whole program, beyond simply a medic alert level. Once again, I was touched by his ability to cope with this constant inconvenience.
Way to go, kid! Keep going!
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