trophywench
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
So there we were at 7am this morning in beddy byes and my pump alarms. I failed to be disgusted since it doesn't even get down to 50% now before it runs out. I pressed the button to shut it up and went back to sleep. Last night it said 70% so I didn't think it would be that quick. You do get a couple of hours leeway after the alrm till it goes into meltdown (LOL)
I got up a bit later, Pete was already up, he'd still been half asleep until the pump had disturbed him, then didn't want to go back to sleep again as he needed to leave at 10.30 this morning to get to the hosp for 11.30. Thought to myself - it's about time, woman, that you got your act together and did this yourself.
It's a tad (euphemism for bloody) difficult to swing the cartridge holder round but not take it out completely so the piston doesn't rewind and then you have to re-prime, hold the pump steady (all surfaces rounded so you can't stand it somewhere, slide the slidey thing back and hold it back, whilst simultaneously lifting the battery keeper handle then hold that to press and turn the battery keeper, to get that one out. Then stick the new one in and do it again in reverse.
The stupid handle broke off, meanwhile the force you have to apply to hold the slidey thing back with my left thumbnail had lifted the top layer of one side of my nail completely off the soft underpart. Great. (This happens all the while - nobody can tell me what to do about my nails doing this and I have tried every proprietary product I've ever seen. They also split regularly vertically from the bit still attached to the last part of the nail bed to the 'free' end - makes no difference whether I pare em down to the bed as far as I possibly can or leave em a bit longer - I have totally given uup wanting to have nice symmetrical nails ages ago. Sometimes I get a V in them. other times it's a U with a flat bottom - two splits a mm apart, joined at the bottom with a straight line; three sides of a square.)
So I detached and brought the pump in to Pete to try for me. I had got a new battery retainer for the new one, fortunately. Of course, the cartridge had to come out by this time and the piston rewound. Took him half an hour, but he managed it.
Seriously - if anything should happen to him - I would have to go back to MDI until the pathetic thing runs out - only 1,118 days to go ...... I wouldn't be able to carry on pumping anyway since I can't use my front due to bad absorption despite having 'rested' it since 2009, so that only leaves 3 sites on my inner thighs and each bum cheek, so 12 in total. I can't reach any of the bum cheek ones - he has to do them. I can't even attach and detach from them.
Is there some SIMPLE way to change a battery that doesn't involve needing at least 3 if not 4 hands?
I got up a bit later, Pete was already up, he'd still been half asleep until the pump had disturbed him, then didn't want to go back to sleep again as he needed to leave at 10.30 this morning to get to the hosp for 11.30. Thought to myself - it's about time, woman, that you got your act together and did this yourself.
It's a tad (euphemism for bloody) difficult to swing the cartridge holder round but not take it out completely so the piston doesn't rewind and then you have to re-prime, hold the pump steady (all surfaces rounded so you can't stand it somewhere, slide the slidey thing back and hold it back, whilst simultaneously lifting the battery keeper handle then hold that to press and turn the battery keeper, to get that one out. Then stick the new one in and do it again in reverse.
The stupid handle broke off, meanwhile the force you have to apply to hold the slidey thing back with my left thumbnail had lifted the top layer of one side of my nail completely off the soft underpart. Great. (This happens all the while - nobody can tell me what to do about my nails doing this and I have tried every proprietary product I've ever seen. They also split regularly vertically from the bit still attached to the last part of the nail bed to the 'free' end - makes no difference whether I pare em down to the bed as far as I possibly can or leave em a bit longer - I have totally given uup wanting to have nice symmetrical nails ages ago. Sometimes I get a V in them. other times it's a U with a flat bottom - two splits a mm apart, joined at the bottom with a straight line; three sides of a square.)
So I detached and brought the pump in to Pete to try for me. I had got a new battery retainer for the new one, fortunately. Of course, the cartridge had to come out by this time and the piston rewound. Took him half an hour, but he managed it.
Seriously - if anything should happen to him - I would have to go back to MDI until the pathetic thing runs out - only 1,118 days to go ...... I wouldn't be able to carry on pumping anyway since I can't use my front due to bad absorption despite having 'rested' it since 2009, so that only leaves 3 sites on my inner thighs and each bum cheek, so 12 in total. I can't reach any of the bum cheek ones - he has to do them. I can't even attach and detach from them.
Is there some SIMPLE way to change a battery that doesn't involve needing at least 3 if not 4 hands?
