Never Go To The Grocery Store When Hungry, and Never Go To McDonald's When Low

Tested 42, grabbed a handful of glucose tablets, but with 3+ units still on board I headed to a nearby McDonald's. I really should have stopped driving, but I didn't feel that I had enough stuff in the car to pull me through the low with all that insulin still working.

I think I just asked for like 3 of everything on the menu...

Seriously though, I had one cinnamon roll and 4.5 hash browns. Doesn't really sound all that bad, I guess... at least until you get your senses back and realize that you just consumed over 1000 calories in a single sitting...

Good thing I played basketball last night! Which I'm also sure is why I had experienced this low today.

Does anyone else feel really wiped out and tired for a good spot of time after a low like that?

Here's to Basketball, Exercise and Almost Forgetting My Pump At The Gym...

Monday nights are great for me.

I do a little bit of karate, then go play basketball for about an hour and a half.

I wore my heart rate monitor during basketball tonight. We usually play full court, but we were short on guys tonight and just played half court 3 on 3. Would you believe I still burned about 2000 calories in 1.5 hours?!?!?!!! Incredible.

My blood sugar is touchy during exercise, sometimes going up (yes, I know, very strange - I have a theory I'll post on later), sometimes going down. Well, tonight was a down night, so I crammed some cookies down, had some pop (mmm, picture that rolling around your belly while running around...), and took my pump off.

Had a fun night, but after all of our gas tanks ran empty we decided to call it a night. Now I usually have a big gym bag full of karate stuff and basketball stuff. My clothes & jacket get tossed on top, and things are generally a real big mess there. You know, a big pile of Scott's stuff, that sits there until it's time to go and I gather it all together and head out.

So I get all my stuff together, say my goodbye's and start heading to the door. One of the guys says "Hey Scott - is this yours?". I turn around and look, and there is my pump, in it's elastic waistband, sitting on the floor all lonely like.

Wow - good thing he saw it!!! I was a little disturbed that I almost forgot this thing that has been, like, literally connected to me for many years. It was just a bit weird.

Then I started to wonder, what the heck would the person who found it do with it? I mean, I'm sure it would not take too long for an intelligent being to determine it was some type of important like medical device - heck, they might even know it's an insulin pump! But, what do you do with something like that? Dump it in the lost and found bin?

Anyway, maybe I should think about labeling it somehow? There is that StuffBak site that seems like a good idea, that is unless some internet illiterate person finds it (though I think there is a phone number too?)...

It was just kind of weird to me, to almost leave without my insulin pump of all things.