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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. (READ MORE)

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His knees are bent.

 

Like a frog.

 

His nostril whistles.

 

He sleeps peacefully.

 

He's 56.

 

"Charlie," I whisper into the dead of night, giving him a slight nudge.

 

The ceiling fan hums.

 

"Charlie, you're low. Have some juice."

 

"Charlie!"

 

So many nights I've whispered these words into his sleeping ears. So many nights for four-and-a-half years. So many nights Susanne has. So many nights other moms and dads around the world whisper the very same words to their children in the darkness. We need a cure.

 

He keeps his eyes closed.

 

He just nods and opens his mouth when he feels the straw poking at his lips.

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"I have that," the birthday girl's grandmother said to me, pointing at the contents of Charlie's diabetes bag as the cake entered the room.

She wore earrings the size of donuts and called me "sweetie."

"Mmm hmmm! Keep it right on my desk all the time."

"Oh," I said, popping a test strip into the meter and ripping open an alcohol wipe. "You have …"

"Mmm hmmm. I can't afford to get another cold this year," she continued. "Oh, no!"

It was then that I realized she was talking about the massive jug of hand sanitizer that spilled out of Charlie's bag and onto the table and not his diabetes supplies.

Meanwhile I was on the phone with Susanne discussing the dimensions of the cake and signaling the young kids distributing the cake to hold off on the piece for Charlie.

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Typically, I put in a new infusion site and leave the old site in for a few hours. I rarely have a bad transition. Occasionally, the site will hurt or feel uncomfortable so I replace it with a new one. Even on those occasions, it's immediate so I don't peak from the bad site.

 

But the last two sites have given me some trouble. I'm rotating like normal, still leaving my old site in for at least two hours, and making sure there isn't any pain. I'm still seeing numbers soar into the 200's without a true cause within several hours of replacing my site. And each time, I've replaced the site on the third high reading and come down within a few hours to a normal range.

 

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Today is the day for the letter "B."
Future posts featuring letters of the alphabet are forthcoming. Thanks to a suggestion from a comment on my previous post, I'm asking you, the reader, to help me decide what C, D, E, etc. will stand for. What would you like to read about?
There are so many Bs in the life of a pumping diabetic. B for blood sugar, bolus, basal. Today, though, B is for Basketcase. Did you ever have a blood sugar reading that left you emotional? A reading that left you confused? Afraid? Lost? A reading that left you feeling like a total basketcase? I'm sure you've gathered by now that I have. (READ MORE)

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Three days, or until the insulin is all used up - that is how long an OmniPod is to be worn for. Before pumping, I was unsure if the scheduled three day replacement interval was going to be a nuisance. I even pondered the idea of trying to sneak in an extra day on the pods- so long as there was enough insulin stowed away in them. Well, that notion, along with a little of my patience, consistently scurries away when I near the end of a pod cycle, and the three day itch sets in. (READ MORE)

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