My pump flaked out this morning.
 

Which naturally made me freak out. I had all kinds of thoughts about getting through the day without insulin. Who to call at Minimed. That I’ve had Toohey for almost two years and while it has a few scratches on it – and geez just an hour before in the shower I was thinking about whether I’ll stay with Minimed when my warranty is up in two years – that it hasn’t had any issues.
 

And did I mention getting through the day without insulin? Well sort of. More like getting through the day without a constant stream of insulin.
 

So I’ve gotten into this habit of changing my entire infusion set on Monday mornings and Thursday mornings. Yes, that’s a three-day and four-day rotation, but it helps me keep my brain organized. I’ve also gotten into the habit of getting about 12 days out of a Dexcom sensor; I insert those on Monday mornings, too, which means that day 12 is a Friday, which means I generally have a weekend without Dexcom, which generally means I find myself horrendously low or high (hello 411 mg/dL Saturday night after drinking hot chocolate while driving around admiring Christmas lights. ahem.). I digress. Clearly.
 

OK, so this morning I was changing my site. I had primed the tubing and was getting the infusion set all clicked into the quickserter. I had tried something different with the Dexcom sensor this morning: instead of inserting it right before breakfast and then eating breakfast and then using my two-hour post prandial for my calibration I inserted the sensor right before I went for my walk at 5:30 a.m. so that I could calibrate right before breakfast.
 

All this to say that while I was sitting at the kitchen table priming my pump I wanted to know what time it was since I knew it was close to when I needed to calibrate Dexcom and wouldn’t it be convenient if I could just do it all right there.
 

Here’s the part where I completely freak out. I look at Toohey to see the time and the screen is blank. Like blank, blank. I start pushing buttons and nothing happens. Nothing Happened!!! Fa-reaking out about not having insulin all day. More button pushing ensues and then some icons begin appearing on the screen, but it’s not like Toohey completely came back to life. And then: FAILED BATT TEST. OK, I can deal with that. Changed the battery (which wasn’t even low) and then icons begin appearing again, though slowly.
 

I pushed ESC and Toohey wanted me to continue priming. Though I was technically done priming except for the fixed prime, I did it anyway.
 

And then breathed a gigantic sigh of relief. I would prefer to not do that again.