Treading Water
I believe I skipped a couple weeks of blogs but we were on vacation. It was nice to get away and soak up the sun. I won't lie, I was moderately mopey about going to the beach because I wasn't sure how taking my pump off to swim would work. I've been reading the latest edition of Pumping Insulin and was happy to find a chart with suggestions on how to bolus insulin if you are off your pump. 30 minutes requires no bolus, but if you know you will be off your pump for 1-4 hours, give 80% of your missed basal. Y'all it worked without a hitch. I floated, rode waves and felt like a kid again. *Basal-the insulin that runs in the background 24/7 *Bolus-insulin you give to cover carbs or in this case, missed basal insulin That being said, I feel like I have more or less fallen off the giving a shit about diabetes train. I've basically been treading water, ignoring all those little tips and tricks I learned over the past few years, you know, being a diabetes rebel. For