I got up to a hypo in the night last night and stumbled down to the kitchen, tested myself and discovered I was 2.9 mmol/l.
While I was sorting myself out, I noticed the cats were a little low on food so I grabbed the big container and started pouring. The lid came off and here is the result. Suffice to say I’ll be holding off doing anything other than eating glucose in the night next time I’m hypo!!
By Nic on 24 January 2010 at 6.17 am
Posted in Hypos & Hypers, Slice of Life
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Renata Porter wrote
Awesome, it’s good that we can laugh at this stuff. I remember the day Kelsey was cooking eggs except there were no eggs and my pan was REALLY close to catching on fire…..good thing I was home.
Heidi-Jane wrote
That truly is the funniest thing I seen in a while…can relate to that. Heidi
Nic wrote
The cat (who is greedy at the best of times) thought it was Christmas!!
Ruthie wrote
Funny Nic.
Many a time I have done something like that. Or said something I shouldn’t have to someone when I was so low and had a severe case of no concentration and slap on the face. That’s the absolute worst! haha
HOWEVER, you might all be interested to know (and this also relates with Aaron’s recent blog about the T1 tyre) … I woke up this morning with bad hypo symptoms … assumed I was about 3.something and because I’d had a late night and could not be bothered getting out of bed to go and scoff sugar and breakfast (plus I never have the energy to move when I’m low) … and full well knowing I could still have another good hour or so in bed before bubs woke up … I put my pump on a temporary basal rate of 0.0 units for an hour – yes no insulin at all – and got up 1.5 hours later. I was greatly delighted that I could go back off to sleep and woke with a BG of 9.7 and didn’t have to eat jellybeans and a museli bar etc and more importantly, not have to get out of bed! Nor did I get to about 11mmol which is what I do after I hypo because I always eat too much! (Bad Ruthie.)
So there you go. If you like to sleep in and want to avoid eating sugary food etc to recover from hypos, try this!!!
And I don’t know about you, but I always feel bloated after I have hypos. And just really full. Didn’t get that feeling today, in fact I eventually woke up with more energy than usual!
Ruthie wrote
PS I’m actually thinking that to avoid that T1 tyre and to reduce the amount of jellybeans etc I have to eat when I hypo, I’m going to put my pump on a very low temp basal rate when I can predict I’ll go low to avoid the bad foods! Plus, if I don’t count my carbs right and see on my pump that I still have a good dose of insulin on board and my BG is already normal an hour or so later (meaning I’ll hypo eventually), I’ll do it then too so I don’t have to eat extra to avoid hypo. I’ll give it a go for the next week and let you all know how it goes.
Aaron wrote
That’d be grand Ruthie – I’ll follow suit if that works to be honest. Let me know how it goes!
A