Blood testing monitor.

Even though we have exceeded our first goal of 2500$ we  are trying to get 10 thousand. The unit the funds have been raised for have covered the first 6 months of the dexconm monitor. We need at least 3 years of this monitor. Please note. After 6 months the unit is no good and has to be replaced. It has none replaceable batteries. Therefore needs to be re purchased every 6 month. The strips required for this unit have a cost of 80$ wich last a period of 5-7 days. Any thing over and above the 10 thousand will be donated to the juvenile diabetes association. As a single mom. Can you imagine the stress and burden of not knowing what your little boys levels are in the morning when he wakes up. Or if he's going to wake up!! the cost to ensure his health and safety is outrageous! Therefore we are calling on you all for any donation big or small or even just sharing this on your social media to spread the word and help Easton!thank you all and God bless!        I'm doing something I would never in my life think I would have to do. I'm asking for help for my daughter and my grandson. My grandson who was 2 at the time was diagnosed with type one diabetes a year ago. This we found out after he almost died in my daughters arms on her kitchen floor while waiting for the ambulance to get there. Here's this little boy, who we just celebrated his 2nd birthday just days before, dying in front of our eyes. After he was treated and sent to a room, where he stayed for over a week in grand river hospital in Kitchener Ontario. We were all taught how to count carbs, Give insulin and do corrections. He was turning back into the thriving young toddler we all loved. Now almost a year to the day, my grandson has been having problems keeping stable on his insulin. He had a seizure in the middle of April. He was 13.5 when my daughter put him to bed and an hour and a half later was found in his crib having a seizure by his dad. His levels had dropped to 1.6. My daughter grabbed his glucagon needle and gave it to while on the phone with 911. That brought him up to 2.6. A good friend of hers that lives close by was giving him juice and Popsicles. That boosted him to 6.9. That was all before the ambulance got there. He was taken by ambulance once again to grand river. Seen by the emerg Dr. And his diabetes specialist. Both said it was because he had a cold. No changes were done in his insulin and we were sent home. 2 weeks later in my kitchen he was getting a little cranky. So. We checked him. He was 7.6. 10 minutes later he started twitching and we checked him again and he was 2.1. My daughter grabbed the only thing she could think of. That being a bottle of mrs. Butterworths syrop, and started to squeeze it in his mouth. He stopped twitching, after 2 squirts. And his levels came up to 7.0. We have been diligent in his carb intake to insulin ratio and he has been eating and not being able to keep a high enuff level. We are having to feed him constantly to keep him above 4 without insulin! On Wednesday may 13th. He had his breakfast. I took them to the store to get some things when she checked before we left he was 13.9. It was less than 10 minutes in the store and even less of a drive back home, when he started to get cranky again. We assumed it was because he was tired. My son had grabbed a bag of sour cream and onion rings and Easton my grandson. Wanted some. We opened the bag. My daughter checked him he was 5.6. Not even 5 minutes later he was crashing. And crashing hard in my car. He was going into a coma!! She tested him he was 1.3!! Once again she stuck him with the glucagon needle while I was on the phone with 911. This time it wasn't so easy to bring him out of it. This time. I thought. Oh my god. I'm going to watch my grandson die in my drive way in my daughters arms with all the neighbours looking from their front lawn at two women screaming. One at 911 to hurry because he's going to die. And one screaming at her son saying please. Please open your eyes and look at mommy!! By the time the ambulance got here. He was 23. They once again took him to grand river. Looked him over and released him. The next day. He was low most of the morning even after eating 60 carbs for breakfast. We call grand river and got into peds out patient to see another specialist. We waited in the room, hoping he could tell us how to fix it. The whole time we were there I was stuffing my grandson full of ice cap just to keep him above 4! Plus he had eaten a half a sandwich and cheesies and chips. Nothing was getting him above 5.4. The Dr said. Well maybe. Maybe?? We should change his lantis? He didn't stay long but our diabetes dietician came in and we spoke with her for almost 2 hours. She told us that we pretty much had to go back to square one like when he was first diagnosed. Certain amount of carbs. Only fed at certain times. And reduced his lantis which is an injection he gets for all day lasting in conjunction with his rapid injection which is given after every meal. We were told to check him every half hour. Every half hour?? His little fingers are already sore from from the month of constant testing already. We were told that there is a brand new monitor on the market that with test his blood every three minutes without poking his little fingers and an alarm will sound even loud enough to wake you up at night. But. There's a catch. Unless you have a fantastic health work benefit. You won't be getting it. It's not covered by odsp or any kind of government funding. It's $2000 plus the strips are $70 every 2 weeks. I was excited that we wouldn't have to poke him all day every day. Until she slammed us with the price. That's out. I can't afford to buy that for him. So we left the out patient clinic just as sad and confused as we went in. The next day. We saw his pediatric Dr and asked for a referral to McMaster in Hamilton. They said yes, we will give you that but we don't know how long it will take. In the mean time. Death is at my grandsons door every minute while we wait. So. Here's the hard part..... I'm coming to you as a mother. And a grandmother. Please. Help us find funding for this blood monitor. It could save his life. We have no idea how long we will be waiting for an answer from McMaster. But anything that might help us early detect him before it gets too low. Like in the wee hours of the morning or just in the car getting pop and chips from the store. We would be forever indebted. I thank you for your time.

Mrs. Charlotte Rauch.