Wow! How dependent on CGM I've become! Our Dexcom receiver quit working yesterday. The screen blacked out & the buttons started flashing. Dexcom technical support was kind & promised to send a new one out overnight - as soon as the shipping department comes into work, which will be Tuesday because of President's Day. So we are without Dexcom from Saturday until Wednesday. I miss it so much! I knew I loved it at night, but apparently we're pretty dependent in the daytime too. Before he goes out to play, I like to get a Dex reading. A couple hours after meals we check to see if he needs a correction. We don't treat based on the CGM, but it keeps us from being surprised by high numbers. Last night, he went to bed at 137 at 8:00, but was 406 at 1:48. If his dex had been working, we would have checked before we went to bed & corrected then. We could have done a BG, but how many times a night is it okay to prick a sleeping (or at least he was) child?
One good thing is that I should be able to get spot trends. Sometimes with extra info, we do enough interventions that we don't see overall trends like "he's high at dinner every day", becuase we correct before he gets too high. There's nothing to stop us now. Well, I think last night's site may have gone into muscle & is slow absorbing, which is contributing to the highs. Andrew thinks it's fine (he doesn't want a new site) & claims he just needs more basal. I don't want to adjust basal without the safety of Dex. How did I get so dependent??? I'm so looking forward to Wednesday & hoping that Andrew doesn't enjoy the break too much!
