Sooooo....there we were having a great time at this water park that is about an hour from where we live.... We went with some family, and were having some pretty good fun! The weather was perfect a few clouds every now and then just to take the edge off. This place was very family friendly, if you pick the right spot you can almost see everywhere...a parent's dream. That and taking along some young cousins to help keep the eye on the wee ones. I was able to have fun myself ie. water slides, diving boards, etc.
Sydney (my baby girl), Courtney, Jorden, and me
*thank you to Jorden for saving the twins
...the little white dot on my side is my pump site..
always fun to watch people's faces when you know they're wondering what's "wrong" with me..I like to behave as though nothing is, but it's days like this that make me feel so handicapped, and discouraged about everything. I really HATE feeling "broken". I try very hard to control my diabetes, and not let it control me, but sometimes stuff happens and makes things difficult to say the least. 90% of the time I almost "forget" about it (so to speak)...I don't let it "define" who I am. Not sure if that is a right attitude or not, but it is the one I have. It's just that 10% of the time it can really kick my butt.
I even got a smile out of her
(a tad blurry, my phone takes crap pictures)
Sydney has really started to learn to swim this year as well.
I'll turn my kiddos into beach vacay kids eventually!
Mr. Fish (my zach-zach) finally put together how to swim this week and had a complete BLAST!!
Sooo fun to watch! He even went off of the diving boards. This child was terrified of the water two summers ago, and wouldn't get in past where he could touch last year. So very proud of my little man!
We had a really nice time! Reasonable drive, great price on admission and food.
And then the Mr. comes up and says "Why does your pump have all that writing on the screen?" Hmmmm..I look down to see and my pump says "BUTTON ERROR" See, I'm a type1 diabetic, and I wear an insulin pump. It is hooked up 24/7 unless I am swimming, or running short distances...or showering and what not. Anyway, I didn't realize how "attached" (yes! pun intended) I was to this thing until it quit working. YES, I said QUIT working.
CRAP!!!! Well, now what? Do we stay longer, and I just go without, or do I make everyone leave because "I have diabetes". Sometimes diabetes truly SUCKS! So I call the product support number and they confirm that yes, it is broken and that they will send me one in the morning. The really good news is that it is still under warranty until this October. Whew!
So in the mean time, I went back to using syringes until it came. This meant I had to check my blood every couple of hours to make sure I didn't spike up to high because I only have the fast acting short lasting type of insulin because of the pump system...that and drink lots of water. That seems to help keep the body flushing out what it needs to. I was told it would come by 10:30 the next morning (today)...
And low and behold it DID!!! (10:16AM) Yay!! I think I could have given that UPS guy a hug! I almost thought to ask him for a pic, but then thought that would be weird so sorry no pic of the UPS dude! (*wink)
So for those of you who often wonder how all this works...first I take the vial and connect the container to draw out the insulin that I need that stays in the pump.
and there's the disc with the canule, and needle that goes under under the skin. The needle pulls out and the canule stays under the skin to deliver the insulin.
And for anyone that knows me at all, I am a "due date" kind of girl. The very kind lady that helped me when I called customer support told me that it was very important that I send back the broken meter in 3 days, in the prepaid envelop otherwise there would be a $3000.+ charge to my account. Needless to say right after I was all hooked up I went directly to the UPS store and sent off the broken pump....(good girl, right?)
What did it in?? heat and humidity! Yep, condensation under the button caused a malfunction and the pump recognized it as the button being held the hold time and it permanently locked it up. Weird...but I'm glad it is over and I am back to being connected.
Being 200+ for more than15-18hours really kinda took it out of me. Then I bottomed out this afternoon...so I kinda feel like I've been on quite the roller coaster ride - not just a few water slides...so I'm just take'n it easy the rest of the day....
~maybe I'll knock out some Homework
