So, it's been forever since I've updated and I have a ton that I need to share, but I couldn't pass this moment up! It's 5AM and I'm in Madison, WI...in the same hotel where my pump battery died and I had to call the front desk a few months ago in the middle of the night...and it just happened again...
This time I woke to a familiar beeping and a warning "low battery" and I laughed HAHAHA...this time I've outsmarted you pump :) I know I have an extra battery in my purse! So, I open my purse and retrieve my spare AAA. I open up the little screw top and replace the battery in my Paradigm and something happens that I've never seen before..."Failed Batt Test"...no freaking way!!!!!!! Okay, small amount of panic and irony strike me. Well, no big deal, the battery that was in it was low, but it was still working so I will just put it back in and ask the front desk to run me to Walgreens before class in just 2 hours. I surely have that much life in the little little AAA that just gave the low warning a few minutes ago. I replace the pump with that battery and again, "Failed Batt Test". Wow...so here I am in the hotel room at 5AM with not one, but two dead AAA batteries. Apparently you cannot put a low battery back in the pump. So, if I had just waited until monrning I would have been fine, but no, I tried to fix the problem and now I have a completely dead pump...AWESOME! Do I dare call the front desk again or go ahead and get ready so that I can have them take me somewhere...I'm leaning toward getting ready and going down myself. This is seriously ridiculous diabetes irony at it's best!!!! You are never as prepared as you think and you should make sure your back up battery isn't dead before you leave town...or have another spare I guess~LOL!!!
