We had an eventful night on Thursday. My son came home from taekwondo practice and his BS was very high (329). I had him check ketones and they were as high as the testing sticks can indicate. He probably has ketones about twice per year if not sick, and then only low levels. I changed his infusion set in case there was a blockage in his tubing, then gave him some carbs and had him dose insulin. The pump threw an M-ERR for the first time. I called Medtronic, and after a little troubleshooting, they said it's a dead pump. A new pump would arrive on Friday by noon.
I wasn't sure if the pump had delivered, but it must have - son's BS was 90. But the ketones were still there, so I called the endocrinologist's on-call number. The endo called back and had me give him 45 carbs and needle dose, and we had to break out the levemir from the back of the fridge. The levemir had expired in 01/16. Endo called in a prescription to the local Meijer pharmacy, who stayed later after closing time by 5 minutes so my wife could pick up the levemir. We dosed him, but he had high BS all night - I just slept in his bed and he slept in mine with my wife, who had a rough night re-dosing him over and over again.
The pump came as planned, and everything's good now... it's kind of crazy how totally on the ball I was pre-pump, and how much I forgot about how to use the levemir pens and needle dosing in the past three pump years. It came back quickly enough, but it felt I'd been transported back to the 1890s or something.