Trying to be a Pancreas

(I wasn't planning on writing another post so soon after the one I wrote last night, but I felt the need to get this out there and this seemed like the easiest way to do it!)

Day 2 without our Guardian 3 sensor and Auto Mode: 

UGH. I didn't realize how amazing Auto Mode on the Medtronic 670g was keeping Cat's blood sugars. She typically has a flat line overnight and stays around 120. I know that within the Diabetes Online Community (DOC), that is a bigggggggg debate/source of contention...the fact that the 670g has a target of 120 and some people think this is too high and would rather set a target of 80 or 90 and blah blah blah, but I'm OK with us sitting at 120 all night, if we are steady and stable. Call me lazy, call me busy, call me both lazy and busy, but I really don't have time to be a pancreas x 2 ALL OF THE DAMN TIME. I have a full time job outside of the home. I have two other children. I have a dog and two cats. Plus I like to do stuff other than diabetes. Like scroll Facebook. And binge Netflix. So, the Medtronic 670g hybrid closed-loop system has really helped us not have to focus on diabetes as much, and it's been great. 

But yesterday and last night, she was using her regular basal rates and insulin sensitivity factor (ISF) along with the Dexcom. The basal rates are ones that I preset in her pump for use in Manual Mode. And clearly they needed adjusting. 

See that dip between 3 AM and 6AM? That's where I stumbled in and corrected her high blood sugar in the middle of the night. See how it went down, stayed kind of steady for a while, and then went back up? I think that both her ISF was not right nor were her basal rates. I did a major correction this morning and changed both her basal rates and her ISF. She's coming down slowly....I'll have to keep evaluating and adjusting throughout this week.

Please please please let us get in the experimental part of the clinical trial with Control IQ. I am not sure I can handle 4 months of having to be an active pancreas.