{"id":11,"date":"2012-05-15T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:12:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T19:12:51","slug":"diabetes-blog-week-my-first-real-post-one-diabetes-thing-i-do-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.surfacefine.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes Blog Week (my first real post)… One Diabetes Thing I Do Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today’s Topic for Diabetes Blog Week: <\/em><\/p>\n

Tell us about just one diabetes thing you (or your loved one) does spectacularly!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>A few weeks ago I had what I consider a diabetes test.\u00a0 No, not a test to see if I am diabetic, that test was in the summer of 1979 (man am I old<\/strong>).\u00a0 No, this was what I consider a test of my internal Emergency Broadcast System<\/strong>.\u00a0 The whole story is rather graphic and is better suited for another post (later this week) about insulin pumps, X-rays, TSA, and warranties.\u00a0 Today, I am supposed to pat myself on the back for the diabetes thing I do well.\u00a0 My \u201cthing\u201d is that in a serious panic, freak the front-door out moment; I keep a level head, and use my smarts.<\/p>\n

I was on a red eye flight and unbeknownst to me had a bent cannula under my skin from a brand spanking new pump site (oh and by \u201cbent\u201d I mean like if you took a regular straw and tried to turn it into a bendy straw).<\/p>\n

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cannula bent like a non-bendy straw <\/p><\/div>\n

I have to preface this story by explaining I take anti nausea pills sometimes when I fly and for the first few hours of the flight I believed I was sick, not diabetes sick, which led to some of the impending confusion taking care of the situation.\u00a0 For the sake of sticking to the topic, I will shorten this to the following facts: hours of puking, taking over one of the bathrooms, and peeing my pants.\u00a0 When my Dexcom showed my BG was in the low 200s, I wasn\u2019t too concerned since I was getting sick (over and over and over) and definitely didn\u2019t want to deal with going low until my stomach issues were under control. I kept giving myself mini boluses (less than a correction) with my pump, my body continued exploding, and I kept noticing my BG wasn\u2019t decreasing at all.\u00a0 By the time the Dex said I\u2019d reached 300, I suspected I was possibly having the Perfect Storm scenario.<\/p>\n

I changed my pump site in a huge rush to get to the airport (yep, stupid) but I didn\u2019t remove the old site as my just-in-case back-up (yep, smart).\u00a0 So I switched the pump to the old site, bloused and waited (ok \u201cwaiting\u201d is a nice way of saying I drank a diet Coke in the bathroom and started puking it out my nose so violently I got a nose bleed).\u00a0 My BG sort of stabilized in the 300-320 range.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t going down though and at that point it really should have.\u00a0 I had already peed my pants while puking (and made new very scratchy undies out of toilet paper) so my pride was long gone.\u00a0 Somehow, in my muddled state, I went through my mental checklist of what to do.\u00a0 I made it back to my seat and grabbed my glucometer, glucose tablets, a new vial of insulin and a syringe (something I rarely traveled with many years ago when all I thought I ever needed was my back-up old pump).<\/p>\n

Back in the bathroom, Pukefest 2012 continued but I was able to check my blood\u2026 427! Ack! Dex said 337.\u00a0 I opened the new insulin vial and pulled the safety cap off the syringe (as a side note: I used to chew on those caps as a kid as I did my shots. I put the safety cap in my mouth for a second, caught myself in the mirror and couldn\u2019t believe in a time of complete distress I automatically did something I haven\u2019t done since I went on my first pump 12 years ago.\u00a0 What a weird-O).\u00a0 Anyway I looked over my belly and figured since I was clearly having insulin absorption issues, I should inject elsewhere so I gave myself a mini shot in my belly far from both pump sites (smart) and then another one in my hip (which was a mess with the plane bouncing but I got it\u2026 also smart).<\/p>\n

I had puked myself silly by the time I was finally able to sit back in my seat for the remaining 45 minutes.\u00a0 By the time we landed, my BG was in the 240 range.\u00a0 I managed to keep hydrating myself (small sips and smart) and grabbed liquids on my way out of the airport (also smart since I ended up in NYC traffic for over an hour).<\/p>\n

When I got home and cleaned up (good-bye toilet paper undies), my BG was still hovering in the 200s, so I changed out everything with the pump again.\u00a0 I then called Animas and had them go through any and all diagnostic testing they could do over the phone.\u00a0 My next call was to my doctor since I still felt like I\u2019d been hit by a bus and then dragged for awhile and high ketones.\u00a0 When I told her how I’d used the light on my phone to grab a syringe out of my make-up bag, my doctor told me she was proud of me.\u00a0 She said how lots of people on pumps don\u2019t have syringes on them at all times.\u00a0 I had been one of those people.\u00a0 For some unknown reason, in the past year, I started carrying 2 syringes in my travel bag. \u00a0So yeah, \u00a0I may not be diabetes perfect, but when push came to shove, I was smart.\u00a0 No wait.\u00a0 I Am Smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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