I basically mentioned this in Jedi's thread, but before I hijack it any further, I thought I should start my own...
As I mentioned, my blood sugar over the weekend was absolutely HORRIBLE
. Saturday, I came home from the gym and tested... To my dismay I was over 200- I took a correction dose and basically shrugged it off. Well, it still didn't come down... and I didn't eat for the rest of the afternoon! I tested later that afternoon and it was still in the 200s! The next time I ate, it was 8 pm... I, obviously, wasn't happy with things, but what could I do
THe next morning, I tested and, again, I was high
... I was still hovering in the 200s. No, that wasn't exactly what I was hoping to see, but I was sort of relieved that it wasn't higher. Anyways, I ate my breakfast of virtually little to no carbs and then went to the gym... After the gym, I tested again. Only this time I was even higher
. I rang in at lovely (not) 300! At this point, I kind of gave up ... well, that is, after I freaked out a bit
Usually, I would try to not eat too much and try to wait and see if my blood sugar came down at all. Not this time! I was like screw that, I'm hungry and I'm eating... so I got a good lunch-nothing extreme, but enough to keep me satisfied.
I was still running on later that evening... When I got home that night, my blood sugar was even higher. I was 425!
. I that point, I had had it. I took some insulin... and took some more... and took some more. Yes, I even took a correction by syringe.
This morning things were not any better
. I still was in the 200s! WTF! I realized at that point that my site was definitely the problem. First it was swollen all around the site & sore. And, it was painful to bolus! Two signs that something was up!
Ok, little confession, I left this site in a little longer -ok, a lot longer- than I should have. I had misplace my serter and I couldn't bring myself to insert a new site without one... I thought I would find it. No such luck... I thought i had left it at work, but, no, it wasn't there either.
So here I was with horrible blood sugars, a swollen/sore site, and, me, of course, being a BIG baby
. I didn't know what to do, but I thought I would drive to work, look for the serter, and take things from there. Since I work for a hospital, I thought I could always go to Employe health if I couldn't find it.
Like I said, I didn't find it and at that point, I was so upset! I broke down... My coworkers probably thought I completely lost it, but one was nice and offered to walk with me to EH.
Employee health couldn't help me out... She listened to me, but told me that she couldn't do anything bout my poor blood sugar or the site. She suggested that I see my Endocrinologist.
I should have listened to her, but I thought there MUST be something they can do. I asked her if I could go to the ER. I thought they could at least look at the site, see if my blood counts were off (which would indicate an infection) and possibly help bring my blood sugar down.
They were little help, if any. They didn't know anything about insulin pumps and very little bout Diabetes. Plus, the whole department was completely disorganized. Yes, they drew blood and they tested my blood sugar, but that was the extent of things. There was no communication between the doctor and the staff and it took at least twice as long as it should have...
By the time I got out of there, I had spent a good 3 to 4 hours in the ER with nothing being resolved. I decided to take a shot (no pun intended) and call my Endo's office to see if they had an extra serter onhand. For once in my life, something did work out!
They had an extra serter, plus they were nice enough to assist me with back up Long acting insulin, and they even too the time to examine the bad site and my doc wrote a script for an anti-biotic... Why didn't I just listen to EH when she told me to go there first???! Leave it to me to do things the hard way!
I apologize that this post is SO long, but I had to share this... Hope no one else expereiences a day like this anytime soon- I am SOO glad it's over!
