Last night at church before band practice I yanked my infusion set out. How? I am not sure. Here’s what happened.

On Sunday our projector at church overheated. The only way to reset it after an overheat is to unplug the unit. The problem is that unit is mounted to the ceiling which is extremely high! We have a giant ladder that seems to weight a ton that we can use to get up there but it takes 4 men to move this thing down into church and into position.

Somewhere in the set up of the ladder or break down I must have pulled it out but honestly I never remember anything tugging it.

About an hour and a half later during band practice I started feeling warm. I am never warm. Then my head felt like it was going to explode. I stopped in the middle of a song, one that I could not figure out how to play even though we have played this song a bunch of time, and I tested my blood sugar.

My meter said I was “High” which means it is over 600 and cannot tell you an actual number. I walked to the restroom to check my site and sure enough it was pulled out and I was bleeding all over the place. I went out to my car and grabbed my extra emergency set and walked back into church to grab my inserter and let the band know that practice was over.

I changed my set, bolused a whole bunch of insulin and then I waited. For 45 minutes I kept testing and my machine still could produce nothing but “HIGH.” I sat in the pew at church and started to pray. I know that I already had insulin on board and that I needed to wait some time but I was upset and prayer provides me with comfort.

At this same time my wife showed up and band members were worried about me. They all wanted me to go to the hospital but I knew if I just waited a little bit more my BG would drop. I told them, “Alright let me test one more time and if it’s ‘high’ then I will go.”

I tested. 598.

I shouted, “THANK YOU” and headed home. I got home, sat down in front of the TV with my meter and a giant glass of water. I kept checking and drinking for hours until about 12:30 I saw a 195 on my machine and went to bed. I was so wiped out.

At 3:00 in the morning I woke up to a 52 and a pool of sweat under me.

Today I am foggy, my body aches, and I am so tired but at least my BG is back where it is supposed to be.