Saturday, October 11, 2008

Midnight (ok, 3 am) madness

I'm turning into the person who turns off her alarm clock, rolls over, and forgets about going to work until 10 am.

Except that's what I'm doing with my pump alarms.

My sensor settings are set quite tight, so I deal with a fair number of alarms during the day. At night, when I hear the alarm I wake up, I deal with my blood sugar, I go back to sleep. At least I think I do.

What sometimes happens is that I wake up, I fall back to sleep and I DREAM that I've dealt with my blood sugar. Then I wake up low.

Yikes!

In an effort to outsmart my sleeping self, I now wear tight shirts to bed, stick the pump under the shoulder part of the shirt, and voila - annoying pump alarming next to my ear to wake me up.

Except last night, my site came out as I slept. Without a sensor, I would have woken up vomiting and in DKA. Fun all around. With the sensor, I finally woke to my blood sugar creeping up. Luckily, the site had only been out for about an hour - according to my blood sugar records.

This has never happened before. I suspect that while I vigorously returned the heavy covers to dd, my pump slipped from my shirt and I threw it over dd. She moved, and the site pulled out.

Or did it?

Other option: I knew that I needed to change my site this morning. I set out everything to do it before I went to sleep, so I would remember in the morning (today was a busy day). Could I have possible tried to change my site in my sleep...and woken to a site removed?

Yikes.

Ok, I'm switching my site-changing time to right before dinner. Next step in my plan to outwit myself.

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