Getting All Diabetes Macgyver On The Beach

Sometimes annoying things occur alongside diabetes that direct hold zip to create alongside our blood saccharide or our insurance companies. 

 We tin direct hold a few beats as well as figure things out or nosotros tin allow the D logistics ruin our twenty-four hr menstruum - OR nosotros tin larn all MacGyver on diabetes donkey  - It's our selection

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Spent a lot of fourth dimension on the beach this yesteryear Lord's Day as well as Mon as well as I'm really glad I did. 

The Sun was shining as well as at that topographic point was a cool sea breeze, the H2O temps were in the 70s as well as the waves were took your breath away piece breathing life dorsum into y'all at the same time.

I wearable an insulin pump, it’s non H2O proof, merely that fact never stops me from embracing my inner fish.  I was jonesing for some much needed common salt H2O activity - I HAD to larn my trunk inwards the sea as well as nether the waves, ASAP.  
So I checked my blood sugar (175, perfect numbers for trunk surfing,) as well as attempted to create what I ever do. 

Disconnect from my pump, select handgrip of a ziplock bag, house said see inwards zip-locked bag and set  zip-locked see inwards a case. Then direct hold the insulin pump filled example as well as set it inwards some other ziplock pocketbook as well as set the whole affair inwards my cooler for rubber keeping.
Sidebar: I do the exact same affair alongside my phone.
Bg ckek, disconnecting as well as protecting my insulin see from the elements takes nigh a infinitesimal - perhaps 2 if I’m inwards mid conversation. 

But here’s the thing: On Monday, for the showtime fourth dimension inwards 12 addition years of wearing an insulin pump, I couldn’t really access my infusion site to disconnect from my pump. 

I was wearing a 1 slice V cervix suit, ( Ok, I ever wearable a V-Neck 1 piece styled suit,)  alongside the pump clipped inwards the middle of the V-neck. But this fourth dimension my infusion site was located really high as well as on the side of my upper abdomen.. and examine every bit I might, I couldn’t larn to the expanse I needed to larn to.

I tried standing/ hiking upward my swimsuit leg upward all super french cutting like, merely when I shoved my manus upward the side of my abdomen, I was all the same a proficient 1/8 of an inch away from my infusion set. 

 I attempted to accomplish the site sitting down, stretching out inwards my chair & hiking upward my swimsuit leg

 all super french cutting & so going for the select handgrip of as well as I got really close, merely non unopen enough.

Also: The people behind me were this unopen to getting quite a show.

FTR, I don't tending who sees my insulin see or my see tubing, merely my cordoned off areas are some other story. 

And yeah, I could direct hold stuck my manus downward the forepart of my adapt as well as so over to the side & down, merely I was alongside a large grouping of people as well as that wasn’t an alternative I felt similar taking.

12+ years of wearing an insulin see to the beach I’d never had such a crazy fourth dimension accessing my infusion site to disconnect - There's a showtime for everything as well as this was mine. 

At this betoken the waves were literally screaming my advert as well as I refused to allow the diabetes logistics of a bitchy & logistically challenged infusion site larn the best of me. 

I could direct hold walked upward to the fIshing pier's restroom, hold off inwards long donkey business as well as bargain alongside it at that topographic point - But I didn't desire to to waste materials the time, I wanted to bargain alongside it correct so as well as at that topographic point as well as correct where I was. 

I sat dorsum downward on my chair as well as got all Diabetes MacGyver on the situation. 

I looked unopen to at the tools I had on manus - a greenish stuff cooler as well as a beach towel. 
Ok, I tin move alongside that. 

I grabbed the cooler as well as placed it on my lap, so I unfurled my beach towel so it covered both me (from my knees to my neck) as well as the cooler. The cooler acted every bit a pitch to the towel’s tent, hence allowing me to discretely hike the left leg of my swimsuit upward super high, until I was certain it resembled a French Connection Swimsuit Catalog photograph from 1986 - seriously, The bottom of my swimsuit was hiked upward good yesteryear my elbow. But I was able to locate as well as and disconnect from my see alongside my correct hand, all nether the privacy of my beach towel see tent and no 1 was the wiser. And it took all of 60ish seconds.

Then I placed the see inwards it’s triple zip locked fortress inwards the cooler as well as ran into the sea until I was almost breast deep.
I pigeon nether a moving ridge as well as bounced upward 1 time again every bit the side yesteryear side laid upward of waves came barreling towards me.

I swam difficult as well as rode every bit many waves towards the shore every bit I could, laughing out loud between sets. 

When I lastly returned to my chair almost an hr later, my blood saccharide was asset fast at 98, the Ice Cream human being was inwards the distance as well as I knew just how to reconnect without flashing the crowd. 

Monday was really a fantastical twenty-four hr menstruum on the beach as well as inwards the ocean. 
And it fifty-fifty ended alongside a rainbow  
Don't fifty-fifty larn me started on the diabetes/rainbow metaphors, merely experience costless to part yours ;) 

Embrace the rainbow