In Wales I got preeetty sick. It was apparently either an allergy to fish, an allergy to some sauce thing, hand foot and mouth or some other kind of infection. My insulin units went from 12 units a day to 15.. to 20.. to 30, eventually rocketing to 50, 60 units a day. But my TDD is decreasing again, I'm back down to about 25 units now. Phew. And I'm no longer hanging around in the 300s.
At about the same time this was going on, I started to have MAJOR site issues. I was changing my set twice a day and EVERY cannula was kinked. Badly kinked. Guh. I spent an entire week with ketones (came back looking all sickly and skinny - my ribs are showing!) and basically really sick. UUUGH.
So yeah, diabetes wise it was a fairly eventful couple of weeks. Otherwise it was pretty good, we sat on the beach in the cold a lot, went on walks, sat around in the house. It was pretty relaxing, and I had pretty much no connection to the world whilst there (no internet, no phone reception) and the only person I spoke to on the pay phone was my nurse and dietician. ;)
Anyhow, back to the site issues, I think it's a problem with the quicksets (I'm fairly slim, and I read somewhere that some people with less body fat find angled sets better) so I'm going to get samples of silhouettes and perhaps sure-Ts as well, although my nurse seems very anti-sure-T for some reason. The only place where my quick-sets don't kink is a particular spot on my arm, about 3 inches above my elbow (roughly 2/3s of the way down my upper arm). So that's where my sites will stay until I can get some sils. Nightmare for scar tissue problems, but at least this way I can be sure I'm getting the insulin I give.
Yay arm sites!
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