This morning started like most of my mornings do. My alarm went off at 5:00 a.m. (a little later than usual), an hour before I was supposed to meet a friend for a easy 70 minute run, I reached for my pump and set the basal rate to 30%, and tried to steal another 15 minutes of sleep before I had to get up. When the second alarm went off (some of you may wonder how Jessica puts up with it – you’ll have to ask her), I dragged myself out of bed and went to get ready to run.
Adam has still not come to terms with being weaned and for the last couple weeks we have fallen asleep later than usual, but before him. So this morning when I got up, I was far from awake. I did the usual things, coffee, clothes, email and check my blood sugar. It was 167. This was a bit higher than I wanted but 40 minutes after lowering my basal rate, it was fine. I punched the numbers into my pump and without thinking, pressed ACT again and again and again and again (I think it takes 4 ACTs to inject), giving myself an unnecessary bolus of 1.3 units of insulin...
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