Disappointing birthday

Just wanted to have a bit of a rant. It's my birthday today and diabetes decided to make everything go wrong.

Yesterday I changed my dexcom and the site bled pretty badly, which meant that for about 12 hours after the numbers it gave me were totally off. I stayed up 2 hours past my bedtime because it was so unpredictable, then I couldn't get much sleep since I needed to keep checking and calibrating. I was a bit high at the start of the night (9's) but eventually made my way down to the 6's safely. I woke up really tired and grumpy, had breakfast, and got extremely high (12). This didn't happen yesterday, I had no idea what went wrong, but it was a really persistent high. I did 15 minutes of walking with large IOB, which on any other day would make me drop like a rock, and it had no effect. Finally I came back down, dexcom still playing up a bit. I didn't have any birthday cake, my numbers were so bad lately I decided it just wasn't worth trying so we didn't make one. Instead my mum made me a special salad with my favourite ingredients, and when I sat down to eat it my dexcom alarm went off and I dropped it all