What I’ll Remember
It was a great 3 day weekend with lots of fun things planned. A different plan for every day.
I certainly didn’t plan for my dress to be wrecked before the ceremony started and I definitely didn’t plan on being late to the reception. I didn’t think that my pump would fall getting ready and hit the bathroom (tile) floor. It worked for about an hour, but then decided fire-alarming was it’s thing. “CALL ANIMAS IMMEDIATELY” is basically what the screen said, with the code that said “I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL YOU TAKE MY BATTERY OUT.” I took a picture of the screen before I called Animas because we were heading into church and there was no way I was going to fire alarm through the ceremony.
The “funny” part about this pump failure is that I just refilled my Lantus prescription and it is sitting beautifully in the refrigerator in my apartment. It wasn’t doing me a damn bit of good right then though. So I went to friends, twitter and facebook. The weather was wonderful and I knew that the one person who would help me must be doing something wonderful outdoors. My mother could not believe that I had my nose in my phone, but I explained how I was trying to find some insulin. I was also thinking of how I was going to explain to my parents I’d have to set my alarm to wake up every 3 hours for humalog that night. I texted Kerri, because what good is it to have an online force as a friend if you can’t get them to help you in a time of need?
I got so many people sharing my plea, people suggesting how I could get through without Lantus and more. I texted the friend who I knew would be busy, and miracle of all miracles, she wasn’t busy! She also was looking for a reason to get out of her house. I drove south, she drove north and she gave me some Lantus. I am always and forever grateful to have other people in my life with diabetes. It is the times like these that it is REALLY important.
LOVE this story! Glad the weekend turned out great after all.
Happy ending!
The reference to Humalog every three hours (as stop gap for Lantus?) is intriguing too!