It was bound to happen at some point, and hopefully by making this mistake once I won’t make it again.

This morning I changed my pump site, but was having trouble getting the cannula to stick to my body – after two attempts I finally got the third one to stick. Was running quite late for work by this point so hurried through the change of tubing etc.

Got to work, had breakfast at 8:15, dialled up the dose, got stuck into my work.

9:30 came and time to check my BG. No – that can’t be right – 19.5. Check again. Oh noooooo, it really is 19.5. Something must be wrong!

All of a sudden it dawned on me……

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So – I completed my first full week pumping last week – hooray! It wasn’t as taxing as I thought it would be. Although I was waking myself up in the night to take BGs, I seemed to sleep better in between – always helps not to have surging blood sugars as you try to sleep I’m thinking.

So – the stats for the week:
108 = blood tests
27 = BGs over 11
6 = hypos (below 4 mmol/l)
3 = site changes
1 = cartridge changes
0 = tears
0 = frustrated episodes

I’ve still got a lot of fine-tuning to do – especially as I’m going to head back to…

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Those of you who’ve been coming a while will notice that my rudimentary ‘picture taken out the window’ header for the blog has been replaced by a lovely illustration from my good friend Nadia – brilliant!

A big big thanks going straight out to you my dear – you are truly talented and I’m very privileged to have your illustrations on the site.

If any of you fancy checking out more of this lady’s amazing portfolio, you should go here: http://peepshowsandpuppets.blogspot.com/.

I wish I had talent like that. You rock, Nadia. Thanks.

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