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Alan, I hope you will love your Libre when it comes. 🙂 Good luck with it. Isn't it great that there is something to make life easier? 🙂
 
I know a really good way of removing a Libre 'cannula' - you walk it onto the edge of your open motorhome bathroom door and it rips them smartly out before you can say a word. Not even painful! Very efficient indeed ...... didn't even fall out of the short sleeve of the T-shirt I was wearing.

NB - I hadn't realised before seeing it out - that it has a vicious spike on it - so has to go in the sharps bin, not the rubbish bin, when you've finished with it. I expected it to be like a pump cannula and assumed the introducer needle must be in the inserter. Nope, that just goes in the ordinary bin.

Libre rep inserted my first (on a small hospital trial at my clinic) and insisted that one didn't have to wait 24 hours and that lying on them made absolutely no difference. So she deemed the arm I usually lie on to be the absolutely best site, to prove what she was telling us. In which case - it's totally useless on me. Over the 10 days it lasted, ONE reading matched my Insight meter value - and the difference twixt meter and Libre was as little as 1.5 and as high as 6+ with no pattern like a certain %age difference, or closer on lower ones, the differences were as random as the actual readings. For two or 3 whole days according to it, I was hypo most of the day, going down to 1.9 at times. Admittedly a couple of times when it said I was high 1s to low 2s, I was in the high 3s to low 4s - but other times it would say I was 2.5 and I was really 8 or 9 ....... always a reason like I'd not ever so long had a sandwich so I'd expect it to be what my meter said.

I have got another couple of sensors - but can't say I have much enthusiasm, still - I'll stick another in the other arm tomorrow and activate it Tuesday and see what occurs. Perhaps since I now have the firm expectation I'm wasting my time - instead of thinking 'what a brilliant way it is of doing a basal test' - I won't be? LOL
 
Northerner said:
Libre will be arriving at 11:50-12:50 🙂 It will be delivered by Fidelis, my DPD driver, who is currently on delivery 11 - I am delivery 59! 🙂
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I was having a two minute chat with my DPD driver on the doorstep recently. He was 2 minutes early, so the barcode wouldn't scan until the appointed time. He said the drivers have a much tighter delivery schedule ( to the nearest 5 minutes) than the one hour slots that the customer gets, and he has to phone in immediately if he gets stuck in traffic, so they can email the customers down the line whose deliveries are going to be late.
 
Northerner said:
Libre will be arriving at 11:50-12:50 🙂 It will be delivered by Fidelis, my DPD driver, who is currently on delivery 11 - I am delivery 59! 🙂
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For a minute i thought you were having delivered by a new delivery company. I like the way you can track DPD delivery.
I have always found drivers courteous and helpful. When delivering Shadow's food they always brought into to hall even the female driver.
 
Robin said:
Mine are always an amusingly odd number of minutes past the hour.
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Actually, mine is 11:49-12:49! :D Currently, he is on delivery 22 🙂 Nah, trying not to get excited because I want to put it on then leave it 24 hours before activating it 🙂 Nervous about it working OK - will go for a short run on Thursday to practice using it before the half marathon on Sunday 🙂
 
I will be interested in your reports on this Alan.

Surprised you have succumbed to the hype. I have yet to hear of a 100% success rate.

I will stick to the 'old fashioned way
 
Hazel said:
I will be interested in your reports on this Alan.

Surprised you have succumbed to the hype. I have yet to hear of a 100% success rate.

I will stick to the 'old fashioned way
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As i am quite clumsy and it can only be worn on the arm it makes a none starter for me.
 
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