Sachuest was a daughter of Metacomet, famous for destroying pilgrims’ muskets with sand that she secretly gathered in a hollow gourd from this place, originally known as 2nd beach
Middletown, Rhode Island Bigfoot favorite beach: 2nd Beach. Go every day if not too hot, not raining, not have camp, not at FFL conference. 2nd Beach (AKA Sachuest Beach) perfect boogie board, kadima, pickle, jackpot, taps, soccer. Broad. Flat. Right size waves. Always comfortable temperature air/water. May even need jacket 2nd beach when disgusting hot day other part Rhode Island. Showers. Toilets. Snack bar. Plenty life guards.
Persons who enjoy rolling in sand and/or digging holes using only their buns may be especially susceptible to pump jams
Perfect sand for digging giant hole. Brown sugar sand. Tiny grain, dense. This sand also perfect for clog infusion site. So much that on 2nd trip as insulin pumper, Bigfoot bring four spare ka-chunkers. 2nd beach = pump jam.
Another feature of 2nd beach: The Kindest, Most Agreeable, Fun Boy is almost always there, just to the right of lifeguard #5
Wish followed advice from last time express shock re grit in site. Recap: can of compressed air. Or advice from comments on Gritty Little Infusion Sets. Recap: Opsite Flexifix, IV3000, Tegaderm, Matisol, “skintac, tegaderm, skintac, sensor, skintac, tegaderm in layers;” some of advice may be only re Dexcom. Bigfoot not yet gather energy figure out where buy* specialty adhesives; fear will be medical supply shoppe w bedside commode, flesh-tone compression socks.
Main thing about beach: Bubs so happy. Also notice learned trust Bubs come in from water if feel low. Today trot over, dry hand on towel, test, 68, eat 3 Starbursts (all independent w brief consultation re Starburst location) run back in. This probably not 100% correct procedure, but Bigfoot not check again. Trust will come in if feel low again, notice strange sensation: relaxation, put nose right back in New York Times crossword, fill in G R E E N H O U S E G A S E S. Holla.
Issue now: decide new normal pump program. Summer days very active, more than school. Except for over-hot/rainy summer day sit still with Lego, barely move, much less active than school. Today so active, probably good day for temp basal. Never think of for daytime. Ever temp basal ++some%? Need look into decrease normal basal for summer, then do ++temp basal for lazy summer day. Think now if too much basal, eventually person grow fat from life-saving Starbursts/Gogo Squeeze. Better –temp basal. If only little bit easier. Hard imagine Bubs become fat.
Other issue: rent car for FFL even though hate driving? Will feel trapped at hotel if no car? Not plan on leave much—only LEGOland—but once at conference will Bigfoot want drive to A-list burrito, five miles down road? This not seem appropriate question FFL ListServ. ListServ population very keen on Disney road trips, teenage dress code. Bigfoot more keen on hotel pool, LEGOland, maybe burrito if excellent/not too far away/not Chipotle.
*(Actually, it not so hard, can order here. $38-ish for 4″ x 11 yds—>maybe enough for 200 on/offs or approx. 40 trips beach?)
Oh the listserv… the adults with type 1 have many jokes about that listserv…
Because T1 parents are so annoying?
Not like you need another suggestion but my sister swears by hypafix to keep sites on for swimming. You can buy roll on amazon. We each have a son with T1 but she is a veteran and I am a newbie. She folds in half and cuts an opening for the site. We tried with our 8 yr old for pool and it was pretty sturdy. Wouldn’t help with sand though. I am going to try compressed air for beach…genius. just came from lovely lawn concert with fireworks. Somewhere on that lawn is our accu chek multiclix, the “extra one” I had been using since I lost last one. Ugh.
We haven’t yet had a problem with the site coming unglued–maybe because he is in and out of the water so much. Does the site eventually just sort of slime off?
After I read your comment, I noticed that our favorite blue Multiclix is also jammed with sand. (Still works OK, but crunchy!)
We were having sliming issue only a few times on days he was in water a ton, so I don’t use Hypafix much but it’s cheap. Just read your post about A1C. Ugh ours is July 3rd. Dreading but still a tiny bit hopeful. We were doing pretty well then that damn honeymoon had to go & end, giving us crappy & consistent highs. I read that average honeymoon is 6 mos. so thought I would start worrying about that in 2 mos. & we would cruise thru it/ become such experts we would not even notice the end. In real life I dragged my kids to laundromat because dryer broke, get on case of son with T1 for mopey attitude, test him, find he’s 450. Change site, correct, hour later 428. Those are times that haunt my A1c dreams!
R u slapping in the plug thingy that animas puts in the box? I found out the hard way that u have 2 use those at the beach or site clogs. Ugh. Glad 2 c u are having fun!
Reyna, I haven’t used the anti-sand clips because I take everything I read as medical advice, and I think Kerri said those clips are useless. I should sue her for malpractice. Or whoever it was! They’ll hear from my lawyers. I’ll try the clip the next time we go. I’m also going to bring compressed air and a roll of opsite tape.
love the pics, especially the rolling in the sand one.
we are renting a car in fla! which means we can totes go on burrito runs together (do you know of a SPECIFIC a-list burrito, or is it just wishful thinking?). and hit up the grosh together if you forget anything.
isn’t that an AMAZING feeling, when he managed that low and ran back into the water? such relief and calmness, for the moment. phew!
I don’t know of any burritos to eat down there, I was just imagining how heartbreaking it would be to eat banquet-type food while everyone else zipped off for big goopy nachos and margaritas.