Comments on: I know you’re attached to your pump; but are you REALLY attached? http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203 Wed, 19 Nov 2014 23:22:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: MaiaJane http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-162 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:47:08 +0000 http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203#comment-162 1 point for the OmniPod! They can’t take it away! (I guess they could, but that would be like saying “can I have your pump…oh and don’t forget your infusion set!”)

Honestly I’d have freaked out too!

Eariler this week I wound up falling out of a raft (on a totally flat section of river) & not even losing my sunglasses, but crawling back in the raft only to see that my OmniPod is nowhere in sight, without a spare, and no insulin for the next 2 hours…not to mention my PDM & cellphone were soaked due to a faulty dry-bag. I couldn’t even stress over my BG! I finally got back to my parent’s house (which is about 3 hours from where I live) and wound up taking a shot an hour to keep my sugars down until I got home.

I would have been freaking out if I had been able to test my blood glucose. Since I couldn’t, I drank a beer (to lower my sugar, of course!) and floated on home. Incidentally, I never went over 300, probably because I was so darn relaxed. After my initial freak-out, and a long swim to keep my sugars from skyrocketing, I let it be and may as well have had a functioning pancreas.

And it was freaking awesome.

]]> By: Erky http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-63 Thu, 06 May 2010 00:48:06 +0000 http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203#comment-63 I think us long time pumpers must all be the same!! I would have had a fit if someone took my pump into another room!

]]> By: Amy Gonsalves http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-62 Wed, 05 May 2010 19:07:14 +0000 http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203#comment-62 It’s kind of bizarre… I was reluctant to hook myself up to a machine 15 years ago and now I freak out when I have to be without it for 15 minutes!! :)

]]> By: Megan Bell http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203&cpage=1#comment-61 Wed, 05 May 2010 18:57:31 +0000 http://blog.diabetesoutside.com/?p=203#comment-61 LOVE it! I’m the same way with my pump. When I had my c-section with Aubrey, my endo had me leave it on through the whole surgery and hospital stay. I assumed it would be the same with Jordan but I switched OBs and hospitals . I was waiting to be taken to the OR right before my c-section with Jordan and the anesthesiologist came into the room and told me they had a policy that you couldn’t wear insulin pumps in the OR (something about some of their machines might damage it-whatever!) and said I’d have to take it off. I tried convincing him to let me leave it on but they insisted I take it off. I tested and was 105 (had been low when I got to the hospital to check in and made them give me D5 since I wasn’t allowed to eat anything) so I took it off-very reluctantly! He promised me I could have it back in the recovery room after I delivered. My sister was going into the OR to take pictures of Jordan so she had to take off her pump too. We handed or iPhones, machines and pumps over to our brother and told him to guard them with his life!

As soon as they wheeled me into recovery, I asked to check my blood sugar-I was 185 (not bad considering once they took my pump, my surgery was then bumped back 1 hour and they had given me a bit of Epi in the OR due to some low blood pressure) and they wanted to give me a shot of Regular. I refused and instead asked for a phone and called my brother on his cell-he was standing outside the nursery with all the family looking at Jordan. I told him someone had to stop looking at the baby and bring me my pump, machine (ok and my iPhone ;) ) right away ;) I felt an immense feeling of relief when my mom walked into the recovery room with my pump! It was a long 2 hours without it ;)

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