Michelle Kowalski

Turns out my dinner-time debacle last night wasn't my fault.

While I blamed myself for a blood sugar reading of 500 on my afternoon candy grazing and failure to bolus, my new medical accessory was actually the culprit.

Thinking the candy was the problem, I bolused for dinner and went on with my evening. I considered that my site was the problem, but it wasn't red nor itchy nor anything else out of the ordinary. Two hours after dinner, when I was still 500, I changed my site.

It wasn't until I had the new site in that I pulled the old one and saw that awful bend in the plastic. I took it to The Mr. and said, "Here's why I was at 500." (OK so the candy didn't help!)

We both sighed a heavy sigh of relief that the high wasn't actually induced by an absent-minded diabetic.

I can't shuffle all the blame on the canulla, though. I changed my site and my reservoir around 1 p.m. yesterday. I went about my afternoon, my painting, my reading, my playing with the children, my snacking and never bothered to check my sugar. Since my site change was fairly soon after lunch, I should have at the least checked my two-hour post prandial. Instead, I was blindsided six hours later.

I think we get complacent with our management. We get into the mentality that "I've done this before and it turned out OK." I think that's where I was yesterday.

We can mark this off the list of things that I'll never do again.