Spencer's Yearly Diabetic Check-Up

Yesterday was a good day. We had our yearly checkup with the Endocrinologist (we see his assistant at our 3 mo. check-ups). I was somewhat nervous to go, as I have not been monitoring Spencer very closely with everything else going on in our lives (11 pancreatic attacks with my husband, a newborn baby and trying to recover from toxic mold poisoning with a family of 9). Our diet has been decent (fresh eggs from our backyard, fresh ground and homemade bread products, good quality meat, fresh fruits and vegetables and limited sugars) and protandim when he remembers to take it. His A1c was an 8.2, which is not excellent by any means, but he has only been taking 1:15 carb ratio and he has not had any lantus (the long lasting insulin) in 3 months--for some reason he is refusing to take it). This tells me that after 1 1/2 yrs. he still has pancreatic function! The doctor was totally amazed by this. He was also very open minded and excited to see where we can go with the treatments for the mold poisoning (what we believe was the original cause) and the gymnema and pancreatrophin that we have just started on at the recommendation of a chiropractor that we have been seeing. The endocrinologist requested to personally see Spencer back in 3 mos. and has ordered the measure of his insulin producing cells to be retested at that time. Spencer was very excited by the doctors encouragement and now has a lot of motivation to get serious about healing his pancreas because there appears to be a lot of hope. I am just thrilled to be working with an amazing environmental dr. and chiropractor and now have an endo who is rooting us on in our efforts to heal!