No not really Mike thanks - I'd have much preferred to stay with the Insight but UHCW decided not to support it any more cos people did have problems with it - and so did I to begin with. Once we got the NHS 'never event' with it sorted some 12 months later though, it's been 100% A OK. But there again I follow instructions - eg always turning the meter/handset on and off with its On/Off switch instead of ramming a strip in, time after time to turn it on, then letting it time out every time you want it to turn it off. That kills the rechargeable batteries dead and there's no possible salvation of them. Despite this, the first handset I had killed 7 rechargeable batteries one after the other. I kept telling the Clinic and Roche that the pump had the words 'Demonstration Model, not to be issued to patients' printed on the label on the back of it but it didn't get sorted until someone decided to see what was in my previous DSN's filing cabinet after she'd been off sick for 12 months, so that would be approx 15 months since I'd had it. And found MY pump, the one I should have had handed to me in the first place ......
I said to the new Head DSN/Manager - who'd worked as 2nd in command to 'mine' for at least 6 years before I got my first pump anyway so is more than capable - I don't care very much then, as long as it's fully remotely controlled and we avoid any more Never events - which only gives me the choice of another Combo now, so I'll have to go backwards to stay alive.
I'm not ecstatic by any means Mike - but I am still alive and assume I'll just have to manage the same as I've always done and that's that.
I still bloody loathe filling cannulas though it does help if the Clinic know how to insert them in a Combo pump properly - and wouldn't take any notice of me saying Are you sure about this? --- ruddy fuming after I got home and read the Roche instructions absolutely NOT to insert a reservoir without attaching the tubing before you do, since if you do it after inserting it, it's likely to leak and seize the piston - and yes, I did that with my first Combo - but that was before they discovered it did it and changed their instructions, so when I read the bright Red Urgent P&C email they sent everyone I certainly had a good laugh about it, whilst sending them the required reply that me and my pump were fine thank you and no I didn't and wouldn't ever do that!
These little things are a test. Time I bloody well passed mine by now I think!
