A picture tells a thousand words, and one-handed typing takes a thousand years, so I’ll summarise.

1. Awesome! Husband takes me with him on work trip to Queenstown.

2. Haven’t been on a snowboard for 15 years plus recently had baby so very respectful of zero skill base and altered balance overall.

3. Cousin lives in Queenstown and lends me his wrist guards.

4. Do things right by kicking off with a lesson. It goes really well. However it emerges that cousin has given me two left wrist guards. Wear one and put other in pocket.

5. BG too high to have lunch after lesson (17.1 – had turned pump off in anticipation of hypos but with exercise as you know it often goes one way or the other). Instead have a correction bolus and some nuts and seeds.

6. Get another few runs in but getting tired. Call last run of the day and head up there. About 300m from the end take a stack and land on non-wrist-guarded wrist. In a lot of pain. Husband takes board to bottom of run, I walk.

7. Wrist already v puffy. Mountain medical team inspect, hand me a fistful of painkillers and send me down to town for an x ray.

8. X ray shows broken radius. Get straight onto doing a haematoma block and manipulating back into place while I get into the laughing gas. Plaster cast and sling!

That’s about the start and end of it. Was going to talk about the hassle of trying to maintain BGs on the slopes but now it’s all about changing site insertion sets and doing glucose tests with one working arm! (Both of which I’ve managed). I’m just glad I’m not on MDI as there is no way I’d be able to carry out a pain free injection just yet. Oh and yes: I’m right handed, and it’s my right wrist which is broken.

So…. the blog. I normally have a few pre-written but have only one and a poll up my sleeve this week. If you fancy the idea of writing a guest blog (would love to hear stories from anyone, including from parents or medical professionals), now is the time to write and send to me please!

Have a great week all.

Nic