Woke up to this little gremlin number on my meter:
I pulled my site and immediately blood streamed out, leaving a trail down the side of my hip and actually running onto the bathroom floor (which is DISGUSTING and makes me feel like queen of the macabre). The site was sore and tender and 12 hours past the “three day” mark, which may explain why it went gross on me.
Regardless of the “why,” the day started with an insistent need to pee and then drink a ton of water from the faucet. And then change my pump out. And then rage bolus. And then start the day determined to have this be the One Thing that Sucks today instead of letting it set the stage for a crappy Tuesday.
About once a year that happens to me, the blood on the floor thing, the rage bolus happens weekly. I’ve not read a post about it, it really is surprising when it just starts running, thanks for including this part of T1D life.
Next month I will have been following your site for 3 years, thank you.
Yeah, it happens once a year for me, too. The worst part was, I had no freakin’ clue anything was wrong until the great leak. I had obviously slept with my body weight pressing onto my infusion port, but I didn’t feel anything except a little itchy soreness.
If only we could regenerate our belly button’s original function and use it as a permanent infusion port!
Sounds like a rough day Kerri. I hope it got better.
I just read the rage bolus link. I didn’t know it had a name. That was awesome. I’m still new to bolus insulin. I’m actually a Type II (sorry if I’m out of line posting here), but I have bizarre insulin resistance and find the discussions and info here to be very helpful, so I hope you guys don’t mind.
I have recently started taking both long acting and bolus insulin. I have done the rage bolus thing a few times (now i know what to call it). I like the belly button idea Tim. That would be great. I use a lot of insulin, so being able to hook up a six pack of vials and mainline through the belly button would be ideal. I rage bolus 100 units of Novolog or 200 units of Humulog 50/50, skip breakfast and get it to 90 from 270 by lunch.
ARRGGGHHHHH!!!! Hate when my day starts like this!!!! But here’s to hoping all ur efforts into checking, changing out ur site, rage blousing…& then needing to clean urself as well as the bathroom floor up led to a better number for you!!!!
Sorry U started ur day like this but I’m hoping u had a better overall day than how it started!!!!
Today, I woke up to 385, but that was more to do with a faulty pump and switching to shots for a few days. Dawn phenomena is not cool. I have had the blood down leg thing about once or twice a year. Thanks for making me feel a little more normal when I am way out of the norm! Here’s to a getting better Wednesday.
Fight the power, Kerri! Kudos for not letting a crappy morning blood sugar reading ruin your day! Just fix it and move on, just like you did…