My procedure in the morning isn’t surgery in the traditional sense, but I’m being prepped for it the way I would be if I were being cut into. I had bloodwork yesterday and the hospital called me at work today to go over my medical history, all the medicines I’m taking, when not to eat, etc. Even reminded me to shower in the morning. I guess there are some folks who don’t and come in rather rank.
 

Since being diagnosed with diabetes, I’ve had surgery once, but I wasn’t on the pump then. I didn’t even know I had type 1 then. I had some sort of very small cyst on my left thumb that really wasn’t bothersome unless I was gripping something or trying to open a jar and had to put pressure on it. Even though the surgeon’s medical assistant knew I was diabetic he still thought it was OK to schedule my surgery in the afternoon. Oy. Gave me a great blood-sugar-management story to tell, though.
 
 

I’m planning to carb-load tonight. I’ll likely indulge in some ice cream and not bolus as much as I normally would for it. I want to go into this high for a number of reasons: I don’t want my sugar dropping in the middle of things, especially since I’ve been known to go lowish during medical procedures. 
 

Now I realize that this seems a little counter-productive seeing as high blood sugar likely isn’t really conducive to surgery, but I want to make it at least until I’m hooked up to an IV. Don’t worry, I don’t plan to be sky-high, just steadily around 200. However, with my luck I’ll wake up with a decent blood sugar. At least this time I have the luxury of being on the pump (instead of taking long-acting insulin) and I can suspend my pump or decrease my basal if I need to.
 

Fortunately I’ll have Dex at my side. I inserted a new sensor this morning seeing as I was on day 10 with my last one and it had missed two lows in the last three days (one was a 39 mg/dL with no symptoms!). So Dex can serve as a little comfort for me and maybe even those who are treating me tomorrow. I just hope they don’t want me to take it out because holy hell would that be a waste of a sensor!

(We had dinner at Mom and Dad's tonight and I didn't bolus for any of it and came home higher than I hoped I'd be. I bolused half of what Toohey suggested in the hopes that I'll come down a little but still stay in the high-ish range until morning.)