The problems began right from dinner. My glucose was fine (around 6.0mmol/L), but unfortunately I knew that was way too low to ski. So I ate dinner and carb counted carefully, being sure to do only half of the insulin I needed. I did glucose right before we left the house, and it was around 10. I thought that by the time we got to Kamview, my glucose should be high enough to start skiing.
It wasn't.
I did glucose in the parking lot, and it had somehow gone down. I'm really not sure what happened, but it was around 7. So I had some stuff, then got ready to ski, backing off my basal insulin completely (originally it was set to run at only 25% of the normal dose).
Of course, I still wasn't high enough to ski the whole evening. Leaving the chalet, I got to the beginning of the Northern Lights trail, where I decided to do glucose. I was now about 4 mmol/L. I let everyone else ski the Northern Lights trail, and just hung out at the end, eating a power bar. When everyone finished the trail, I did glucose once again, thinking I'd be good to go back.
And now it was up to 5.
I ended up eating more skittles, skiing a bit, eating some more skittles, and just slowly skiing back to the chalet. Once there, I was of course low again (I could feel it at the end - I had no energy). So I had some stuff that was left in the van, then we all went for some hot chocolate.
By the time I got home, I was feeling better. My glucose was up to 10, which was fine with me. Unfortunately, about an hour later, it was now up to 20, which I honestly kind of expected to happen after everything was said and done.
I decided to chronicle what happened here, and to take a look at what I've tried before. I know that I started off way too low to attempt a skiing adventure, so next time I'll have to make sure I start off a bit higher than that. But among my other skiing posts, I found this one, where I documented a successful skiing attempt. I completely forgot about it (well, it did happen three years ago!), but now I have something I can try for the next time I go skiing! (Which will hopefully be this Sunday night if the weather holds out!)
