Liam’s Fred (POD) expired early this morning and we changed it around 6am…then he went back to sleep until around 7am. At the time of changeout, his BGs were around 90. I didn’t notice after the changeout that his BGs started slowly creeping up (even though he’d had nothing to eat). He left for school with his brother around 0715 and BGs kept creeping up, but not fast…just gradual up to around 150.
Well, guess what today was? The school spelling Bee…I had meetings and wasn’t able to attend, but his mother was able to be there. Regardless…I was confused because his BGs just kept moving up and up and up…even though he’d eaten no breakfast (he wasn’t hungry) and even though I’d also given a remote bolus.
By the time he was in his 3rd round (many dropped out during the 2nd round and there were only 2 remaining…him and one other kid). That kid had the word “Warlock” (Liam was like…really??? He actually told me “They threw him a softball word”….) Anyhooooooo! By the time he got to the 3rd round, his BGs had gone all the way up over 300 and I had to have him do a fingerstick IN THE MIDDLE of the Spelling Bee…he didn’t want too. He actually said “I can’t.”…then corrected it with “I don’t want too”….I had to be an ogre and say it’s important, so he did it. He was 292.
Long story short, his mother brought him home after the spelling bee ended (he ended up being runner up with the word “Wittle”…he spelled it “Widdle”), and we changed Fred and put a new one on (something I would have wanted to do earlier given he was bolused a total of 8u in the hopes he’d start coming back down, but he didn’t.) Going by the old addage of “If in doubt, change it out,” we changed it out and immediately it started coming down…he got up to nearly 400 before Fred was changed, and he started coming back down again.
The post is really about why every single day of school is pretty seamless and uneventful, but the day of a big event we have BG issues.
At least he had a soft landing. 
Here’s the BG chart for the last 24 hours…he at late and lingered just under 200 most of the night too.
We also ran into another issue a couple weeks back when the school was taking a trip to the Biltmore Estate in NC (beautiful mansion…been there a few times.) His phone suddenly started losing charge more quickly than usual and he indicated he wasn’t using it. Well, idiot me forgot to pack extra supplies because we were rushing that morning to get him to the bus in time (big families always seem to be rushing for some reason. lol) Anyway, I forgot to pack insulin pen, extra pods, THE CORRECT CHARGING CABLE, etc., He did have a power bank that I packed, but it did no good because I packed the wrong cable for him to plug it up.
His phone actually died during that trip and thankfully I had really good communication going with the principal and the adult responsible for Liam and the other kids with medical conditions. Long story short, they found the correct cable and he was able to get plugged up, charged and had a great time.
