Took a shower, dressed, headed out. About 2 hours after I detached from the pump, I am standing in a museum looking at an amazing Cro_Magnum mannekin, I reached into my pocket to check my sensor reading. OK. OK. NO PUMP. I had not attached before leaving--10+ years--never before.
Drive back to our current home, grab and attach the pump. Took a reading--off the pump for nearly 3 hours-- and was 152. Small correction needed.
Survived the crisis and had a great day. It is so nice to be stupid and still win at the D.
I've done that before ... Nice that your BG didn't go very high at all. The first time I forgot to reconnect my pump I was still a new pumper and was 13.8 (248) by the time I realized after about 2.5 hours that my pump wasn't there. I stupidly just corrected the reading with my insulin pen, didn't replace basal or anything, and was over an hour from home so figured I'd just go without my pump and correct highs till I got home. Another 2.5 hours later I was 24.6 (443) and feeling horrible. It took hours of corrections to come down, and I felt so sick. I had no way of checking ketones and just piled on the insulin with my pen and decided I would go to the hospital if I threw up (which I was very close to doing). By the time I got home five hours after being 24.6 I had finally come down after about five corrections. Ketones were still elevated when I checked them. Closest I've ever come to going to the hospital for a high BG.
I did that last spring, on my way to a fantasy baseball auction, I wasn't playing but was sitting in for someone who couldn't make it, got out early, ran around the house getting stuff and left it clipped to the towel and had to turn around. I was about 125.
