Actually, I shouldn't blame myself too much, but I should have double checked like I usually do.
And now, time to elaborate.
I was doing laundry last night. The laundry room is just 10 steps from my apartment. Because there is no-one else in the building, I have the laundry to myself and I just leave my door unlocked. Long story short, last night the door must have been swung open wide enough that it pushed in that little locking thingy. In conclusion, I locked myself out of my apartment nearing 1am.
At that time of night, there is nothing open in downtown London. I had no socks on - they were in the drier. I must have wandered the halls of the apartment for an hour, searching for a secret spare key or way to jimmy my way back in before giving up and resigning myself to sleeping on the floor in the hallway.
Once I started falling asleep (not really..) I noticed that my sugars were going low. Reminder that nothing is open downtown, my tester is inside the apartment, and I have no sugar.
I did something that I had never consciously done before, and never want to have to do again. I stopped my pump waited until my liver kicked in some sugar. I was confident that my body would do this - it's done it countless times overnight while I was sleeping.
It was pretty horrible. I just laid there on the hallway floor, drenched in a cold sweat, pressing my eyes closed until it had passed. I don't know how much time passed, but eventually I could tell I was no longer low. I turned my pump back on, wiped my forehead and tried to fall asleep.
The bookstore next door opened at 10am today, so I went there and used the phone to call my landlord and I was back in my apartment with nicely folded laundry at 11am. Because of my liver kicking out the sugar, I was 15.3 when I tested, so I've corrected and I'm hoping to salvage some goodness out of the rest of today.
In conclusion,
My advice to the world is to not lock yourself out of your apartment - and if you do.. find a way to not have to sleep on the ground!
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