Don’t mind me … … I’ll just be sitting here with 1 unit of Humalog left in my pump because I went to bed with 9 units left and tried to use my insulin to the very last drop. I’ll let my dawn phenomenon-induced morning basal rate suck up the rest of this cartridge before swapping it out for a…
For the first few days I was here in Australia, I was wondering why my morning blood sugars were such crap. “Must be the travel, or the time zone change, or the lack of sleep, or the food-on-the-go,” I reasoned. Nope – it must have been the fact that I changed the time on my pump to PM instead of…
It’s not just a matter of slapping on a new sensor, queuing it up, and making use of the data once it’s available on the graph. Wearing a Dexcom sensor has now become this intricate pseudo-science of site rotation, skin maintenance, and scheduling, thanks to the dreaded Dexcom rash. My first skin irritation from the Dexcom sensor popped up in…
I do not enjoy basal testing. Even though I sometimes go six hour clips without having a snack (thanks, Birdy and your busy ways), something about knowing I can’t eat or exercise makes me want to do a 5K while simultaneously chomping down on some soft serve. But when I noticed that I was going to bed at a completely…