I woke up this morning and after a week of having to drag the kids to work after school I thought it would be a great idea to get them out and take them to the local water park. This means swimming, water slides and a big day of walking around and climbing stairs.
OH wait I am on a pump!!!! This is something that comes to mind as to on of the concerns before going on a pump and for a lot if not all non pumpers the fear of having the pump connected to you 24x7 is scary and then the thought of having to disconnect for a period of time scares the hell out of most. Yes it is something that has to be managed but what day isn't full of management for this lovely disease.
So here is my day.
7am - Get up and have normal breakfast - BGL 6.5 mmol
7.10am - Have the children jumping around the house trying to get everything together for a day at the water park. BGL - 6.5 mmol
8.45am - Leave for the water park which is 40 mins away - BGL 7.2 mmol
9.45am - Standing in a ridiculous long line waiting to get into the theme park. (This may seem strange to say but in fact the amount of people and the length of the line is a critical part of what I was going to do today. The longer your standing still in lines the longer your not using the glucose up in your blood stream) - BGL 5.2 mmol
10.15am - We are in and locker for the day procured to hold all of our valuables. This includes watch, keys, wallet, a complete set change and spare insulin and yes my pump (and all the usual pool stuff). - BGL 5.2 mmol
The next 2 hours were full of water slides, swimming in the wave pool, sitting in tubes going around a lagoon, walking as quick as possible on the scolding ground trying not to burn our feet, climbing stairs and hills to get to the top of the slides and yes waiting in lines. The crowd today wasn't to bad so I think in the first 2 hours our longest wait was only 20 mins.
12.45pm - Ok the first check to see how things are going. The kids and I head back to the locker to test and reconnect for some lunch. I get my tester out and follow the usual process and to my surprise BGL 4.5 mmol. Now keep in mind my morning bolus amount was done at 7am so any residual insulin from that was gone and the exercise that we were doing was helping to keep the high sugars away. We had our lunch which consisted of a BBQ sausage in a roll and a diet coke. This was bloused for and I was connected for the duration of lunch. We then headed back to the locker to disconnect again. BGL 4.5 mmol
1.30pm - The fun resumes and I think it is time for the kids to head to one of the fastest slides in the park. Well for my 9 y/o anyway.
3.30pm - After another 2 hours of jumping to the shadows on the hot ground. listening to kids scream as they fly down the slides and just having fun the we all deserve from time to time it was time to call it a day. We headed back to the locker for another test, to reconnect and to collect our belongings. I take my meter out and preform the test BGL 5.9 mmol. I was ecstatic that the day had played out as it should. BGL 5.9 mmol
4pm - We headed home and I continued to test and the highest that I went to was 8.9 mmol. This I was happy with.
All in all I write this not to gloat and not to blow my own horn but to let people know that even though we have this disease and even though it takes management day in and day out we are able to push through and work out what is best for us. Being connected to the pump does not mean limitations it actually means greater amount of flexibility.
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