Last night I went to bed at around 10 p.m. I was tired and needed to get to sleep early since I had a 20 mile run ahead of me in the morning, which I planned to wake up for at 4:20 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I got into bed and checked my blood sugar. We had eaten dinner relatively late and I had taken a substantial amount of insulin (around 4.5 units) because my blood sugar was a little high to begin with.<\/p>\n
At bedtime my blood sugar was 173. I plugged the number in to the bolus wizard on my pump. It told me I didn\u2019t need to bolus (well it actually read bolus 0:00 units) and said that I had 4.2 units of active insulin on board.<\/p>\n
Well, I couldn\u2019t go to sleep like that.\u00a0 So, although I was very tired I decided to read for a while. After half-an-hour or so I started having a hard time staying awake, I was reading the same sentences over and over again. I decided to just go to sleep.\u00a0 My blood sugar was 104. I knew that was not good, so I set an alarm to wake me 45 minutes later. Knowing I probably wouldn\u2019t hear the alarm, especially if I was going low, I asked Jessica to make sure I checked my blood sugar when it went off.<\/p>\n
When the alarm went off I did not hear it and when Jessica woke me I felt groggy and disoriented, all I wanted to do was fall back to sleep. Jessica insisted, and I checked my blood sugar again. It was 62 and, as far as I could tell, falling. I didn\u2019t want to eat anything, both because I wasn\u2019t hungry and because I didn\u2019t want to wake up in the morning, before my run, with very high blood sugar.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave some glucose tablets,\u201d Jessica suggested. \u201cThere\u2019s a new container in the bathroom drawer.\u201d\u00a0 She offered to get them for me, but I didn\u2019t want to make her get out of bed.<\/p>\n
I stumbled through our apartment (thankfully, we don\u2019t live in a big house) and found the bottle of dex4 glucose tabs. I had a hard time opening it. But I finally did and had a glucose tab.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many did you have?\u201d Jessica asked me.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust one\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, a little more alert, I went back and had a few more glucose tabs (at this point you\u2019re probably wondering why the hell I don\u2019t keep them near my bed). I ate some dried fruit, too.<\/p>\n
I got back into bed and set another timer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you brush your teeth?\u201d Jessica asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I said. \u201cI want to sleep and I\u2019m not getting up again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you wash your hands?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s probably sugar on them.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to screw up your next test.\u201d<\/p>\n
45 minutes later my alarm went off again. I had no trouble waking up. I grabbed my glucose meter and checked my blood sugar. 285.<\/p>\n
I was about to panic, but then I remembered Jessica asking me about washing my hands. I tried another finger. It read 110.<\/p>\n
Relieved, I went back to sleep and when I woke up at 4:20 my blood sugar was 150. Not perfect but good enough.<\/p>\n
I got up had my coffee and went out to run a good 20 mile run in the rain. (It took me 2:37:16.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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