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Insulin Pump Users
- The insulin pump is a medical device used for the administration of insulin in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, also known as continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy.
- A device that delivers a continuous supply of insulin into the body.
- An insulin-delivering device about the size of a deck of cards that can be worn on a belt or kept in a pocket. An insulin pump connects to narrow, flexible plastic tubing that ends with a needle inserted just under the skin.
- The standard Unix command who displays a list of users who are currently logged into a computer.
- (user) a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
- drug user: a person who takes drugs
- A person who uses or operates something, esp. a computer or other machine
- A person who takes illegal drugs; a drug user
- A person who manipulates others for their own gain
Diabetes 365 - Day 242: May 18, 2008 - Beware of Bubbles
If you ask people who use an insulin pump one of the most annoying things they deal with, among other things would probably be listed "bubbles."
Insulin pump users need to beware of bubbles in the tubing. Bubbles aren't bad because they will hurt you; they are bad because any space taken up by bubbles will contain air rather than insulin, which means that you will miss some of the insulin you should be getting.
Tonight I was totally surprised to test at 18.4 (331 mg/dl) after dinner, when I'd been 4.9 (88 mg/dl) before eating. I knew I had bolused correctly—in fact, I'd bolused a bit on the aggressive side. When I checked my pump tubing, I found LOTS of bubbles, some several inches long. I don't know how they got there, but I did drop my pump on the floor this afternoon, so it's possible something somewhere cracked. Who knows how much of my bolus consisted of insulin and how much may have consisted of nothing but air.
I changed the cartridge and the tubing and did a correction. Hopefully that will come down soon.
Biscuits of Death (Cookies of Death)
These were made for a celebration at Brookwood Cemetary, nr Woking, Surrey, UK.
As a diabetic, these biscuits/this image have other meanings.
In no particular order:
* the myth that diabetics are not 'allowed' to eat sweet things (or they 'will die').
* the danger of promoting 'healthy eating' (i.e. no biscuits) over 'good bg control' (i.e. eat the biscuit, but bolus for it).
* as a momento mori (how much of my life will I loose to diabetes???)
Entered into the 'Do Good' pool as an aide-memoire for charities that send insulin to those who need it, charities who support pump users, and charities which support the preservation and use of cemetaries
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Post je objavljen 15.12.2011. u 15:34 sati.