pump
Damn you site change!
This is what happens every. Single. Time. I change my damn pump. I start off in range with a great blood sugar, but then I get a steady creep-up into the 200s until things finally calm down about five hours into wearing a new pod. For this one, I even bolused before AND after changing [...]
Meal plans, and lack thereof.
There’s a laundry list of questions us folks with diabetes get asked: “Are you allowed to eat that?” “Did you eat a lot of sugar as a child?” “Does the pump control everything for you?” These would all make the Top Ten list for most annoying and probably the Top Ten for most frequently asked. [...]
Just call me Rusty…
On Tuesday night I fell in to bed exhausted and rolled on to my left side, only to pop up like a spring because of the sharp pain coming from my left hip. My Dexcom sensor was somehow irritated, either from the pressure, or from it being day six, or who knows what else. Whatever [...]
Tanlines: Diabetes Edition
I am so glad that my diabetes devices are waterproof. Because when I went out for two hours on Sunday to try stand-up paddle boarding, I felt safe knowing I still had my basals running. I also applied SPF 50, which did NOT keep me safe from the blazing San Diego sun. But doggone it [...]
Welcome to Ketone City. Population: Me.
Sunday was a weird day, blood sugar-wise. I spent the better part of the morning low, which ruined my plans for going running. Soon after a carb-free breakfast of eggs and sausage though, my BG began to climb. At first I was relieved, since I’d spent the better part of the morning treating numbers in [...]
Vampire Cannulas. Ew.
After three days at the BlogHer conference in NYC and one day out in Pennsylvania with my grandmother, I flew back to San Diego on Monday night and have been trying to catch up ever since. I have so much to write about the BlogHer conference, but until I get through the 3,000+ emails in [...]
A Hat Trick of Highs.
There are certain variables with diabetes that are tough to control. When there’s one of them, the consequences can usually be mitigated with some mild adjustment. But when three notorious high blood sugar triggers all happen at once, the result looks like your CGM is trying to create an Etch-A-Sketch of Everest: [...]
The Basal Finagle.
There was a time when my “basal rates” consisted of a split-dose injection of Lantus: 12 units in the morning, 15 in the evening. That was it. 27 units of Lantus. I’d use my Humalog to bolus for meals and take correction doses, but there were no changes to my background insulin. My how times [...]
Trashy people.
Every once in a while, my pump site change day falls on the same day as when I change my DexCom sensor. And Holy Trash Pile Batman, I am always shocked by the amount of garbage I produce between these two devices. On the one hand, it’s kind of impressive that two small pieces of [...]
The Tape Wars
At any given time, my body may looks like a canvas for dried glue artwork. The adhesives on my insulin pods and my DexCom sensors often leave behind a sticky signature, and sometimes it can take quite a bit of work to get it off. I change my pod every three days and my sensor [...]
