Swimming Adventure

So a really weird thing happened tonight.  I knew I wanted to go swimming, so I did my usual swimming strategy for food and insulin.  I walked to the pool (as I've been doing for the last few weeks).  Got into my bathing suit, did glucose: 6.5 mmol/L. 

Huh.  What do I do now?

The smart thing would be to call it a day.  I tried, but no dice.  Pack up, walk back home.

What I actually did was go swimming anyway.  I had some regular pop.  Did glucose at the side of the pool.  It was up to 6.9 mmol/L.  Drank a bit more pop, jumped in. 

Of course I didn't do anything stupid.  I swam slower than I would have normally.  I swam a lot less than I would have normally.  And I checked my glucose part way through the swim before continuing.  I was conscious the entire time that not only did I have to make sure my glucose stayed high enough during the swim, but to walk back home too.  So I made sure I did not overdo it at all. 

And here I am, safe and sound back home.

And now that I'm back home, my glucose has been slowly climbing.  Go figure.  So I'll keep an eye on things tonight and see what happens.

I should also add - do not try exercising if you do not think your glucose is high enough!  I know my body well enough that I trusted that I would be high enough to do a *little* bit (while monitoring the entire time to make sure I WAS high enough to exercise).  When in doubt, talk to your diabetes management team for help!!!

Side note: I made a friend in the change room today.  She saw me doing glucose before I took off my pump and was like "You have Type 1 diabetes, don't you?"  Turns out she was a nurse just heading home.  :)