Gymnastic Kinks

I took the girls to their combination Gymnastics/Dance class on our usual Friday.  I gave EA her snack before hand, plus half correction for it, which seems to work pretty well for us.  She came out of the 60 minute gym class with a BG of 300, which is unusual for her.  Hmmm...I gave her a correction and got everyone ready to leave.  We met my husband for dinner at a nearby Japanese restaurant, which was a treat given our recently way-too-busy schedule.  Her Dexcom alarmed that she was spiking quickly and I thought of the applesauce she begged for after gym class and thought I didn't cover it correctly.  I checked her while we ordered our food and she was about 400 BG.  

At this point, big alarms were going off in my mind and I went into emergency mode.  By the time our food came, she was 450 and I told everyone to eat quickly so we could head home and figure things out.  In retrospect, I wish I had just changed out her site, but I thought perhaps her insulin was bad and needed to be replaced.  Everyone else ate their food and seemed to enjoy it, but my stomach was in knots as I planned how to keep her out of the hospital.  By the time we got her home, her BG was 598.  Thankfully, she didn't have ketones.

I did the fastest site change ever and found this...

The only thing I can think of that may have caused this is her hour of gymnastics, especially the High Bars, which require her to press her belly (and site) against the High Bars.  I can't remember the last time we've had trouble with a site and kinking.  All of my corrections were not absorbed into her body due to the kink.

My husband was a great help during the whole process, comforting her while I played nurse.  Recently, she's decided she really likes him to read a story while I do the site change, so that night, she got several books while I changed her, checked for ketones and checked Blood Glucose.  

Thankfully, all's well that ends well.  She came down nicely through the night and seemed to feel fine the next morning.   I've now added a "Gymnastics Kinking" to my ever expanding list of items to troubleshoot for when we have those crazy High BGs.  I'm thankful we don't have them often.

My sweet ballerina with Rufus the JDRF bear.

Have a happy and healthy week!

Jessica