Finding the chase and cutting to it

Thanks to the majority of people being well fed these days, being ill is unusual.  I’m not talking about the odd cold that refuses to shift, but an actual viral infection.

As seen from my last post, Sometimes, it just doesn’t work, I should have guess that something was brewing.  It didn’t actually hit until New Year’s Eve – I felt a little knackered but not unexpected given the battles with my blood sugar.  The 30th Dec 2018, I had 82iu over the day (I was fine if I didn’t eat, yet every bolus for food seemed to be ineffective and my bolus to carb ratio increased from 1iu to 10g to 3iu per 10g) compared to 38iu on Christmas Eve.

My husband was feeling grottier than I was and despite making  it down the hill  to our local, we left earlier than planned and my husband headed for bed at 21:30.  He started being sick at 22:30.  My blood sugar was still being a little stubborn, but not eating for the majority of the day had helped a great deal and things were a little high but I made arrangements that our son would stay over a friends to ensure he would reduce his exposure (he had school today).

I popped up, made sure he was OK and got him some water.  I got myself some too.

I couldn’t get my sugar below 8mmol/l so waited for the New Year and ensured the  next three times my husband lost his food didn’t cause him any issues.

Insulin On Board

I finished some changes to the insulin on board calculator: if you’re a user, you may notice that the output has been updated to allow multiple results to be displayed.

But didn’t feel that sleepy so took the work to the next stage for a multiple dose calculator.  It has a long way to go, not least in terms of testing, but I am making some progress on this more complex modelling which catches a few of us out.

Although still not sleepy, I did need the loo suddenly at 01:36 New Year’s day and found I that I had the bug too – bad diarrhoea and then I started being sick!

Some water helped clean my palette and I cleaned out the toilet and got into bed.

Finally my blood sugar dropped.  I took water and simple carbs and that day I didn’t need to miss with my basal levels – things just worked and my daily intake was only 42.9iu.  In fact, since my blood sugar hasn’t been above 10mmol/l and my intake hasn’t been above 60iu even though I am now managing one small meal a day.

That meal is still causing a small issue, but a temporary carb ratio of 3iu sliding back to 1iu per 10g seems to be working well.  I’m taking off 0.5iu a day.

I’m not 100% over the bug yet, but I’m progressing well and am not that far behind my husband’s healing rate 😀