First Bad Pump Experience

Hello Vicki,

On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:08:56 UTC, Vicki Beausoleil
<[email hidden]> wrote:

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Hi David

Dave's a pathetic [censored], that's why he resides in so
many killfiles in this group. He especially likes to
insult females.

Anyway, now that's done, welcome to the group. Lots of
good information here. Another good place for pump
information in particular is the insulin pumper's mailing
list. There's 4500 members on pumps of every stripe.

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Thank you. I've been looking for a good place to get
oriented.

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I use the browser option for reading. It's a busy place.

I've been pumping two months now and it's made a
dramatic difference. Less lows, better postprandial
readings, and much greater freedom. I should get my
first post-pump A1c results next week (If my endo
remembers to send me an email).

It sounds like you have great control, better than mine
was on MDI, so the transition to pumping wouldn't be
difficult. It is a lot of work at the beginning, but the
reward is better numbers and less likelihood of future
complications. You already have the frequent testing part
down. The pumper's bible is the book 'Pumping Insulin -
Everything You Need for Success With an Insulin Pump' by
John Walsh and Ruth Roberts. It'll give you everything
you'll need to know except which brand of pump to buy.

The HbA1C numbers kind of lie. I'm very brittle. Control
is difficult but I seem to manage well controlling it
often. It just takes practice to say every so often to
test and compensate. I'd benefit from a constant monitor,
like the watch, but that isn't cost effective yet.

I'm hoping to find out how a pump might help someone like
myself that is rather brittle.

I can get to a steady 80-110 and hold there for all night
or during the day. That is without food though. I know how
I react to foods and can repeat that most of the time.
Since reality is that a good variety of foods are a bit
more unpredictable, I test often and correct when out of
line. Others can get buy with less intervention, but that
does not go well for me. I can still tell (mentally) when
things are not right.

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Good luck, whatever you decide to do. Have a great long
weekend. We had our party last weekend up here in the
Great White North (Victoria Day).

Vicki Animas IR1000 T1 for almost 10 years

Thank you Vicki,

David

yes, it DOES answer my question, Ron. Thanks! In light of
your info, I retract my reservation about the pump based on
bolus speeds.

dave

Ron Swain said:

Bay Area Dave <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ron, what is the shortest time period you can inject a
bolus, OTHER than the immediate bolus? Can you do a bolus
over a 10 or 15 minute period? Minimed boluses are either
1/10 Unit per 4 seconds, or a bolus delivered evenly over
periods from 1/2 hour to 8 hours. 1/2 an hour would be
too long for a quick bolus; my typical 6 unit bolus
takes 4 minutes.

dave

The Extended bolus allows you to use 15 minute increments.
Your immediate bolus can be set to be dilvered between 1-3
minutes.

Hope this answers your question. Glucoweb

Thanks. What you DIDN'T write was that I'm "BAD" for other
reasons, correct? 🙂

dave

Cheri said:

Yes Dave, but it doesn't make you a bad person just
because you don't see it my way, and just because you're
wrong. ;-) LMBO

--
Cheri Type 2, no meds for now.

Bay Area Dave wrote in message

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well, I guess will have to agree to disagree on this
point, Cheri... 🙂

dave

dave

Absolutely not Dave! You are not "BAD" and I reckon we sort of have the
same sense of humor. Must be a California type of thing. :-)

--
Cheri
Type 2, no meds for now.

Bay Area Dave wrote in message ...

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Thanks. What you DIDN'T write was that I'm "BAD" for other
reasons, correct? 🙂

dave

Cheri said:

Yes Dave, but it doesn't make you a bad person just because you don't
see it my way, and just because you're wrong. ;-) LMBO

--
Cheri
Type 2, no meds for now.

Bay Area Dave wrote in message

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well, I guess will have to agree to disagree on this point,
Cheri... 🙂

dave

dave

On Fri, 28 May 2004 18:27:38 GMT, Bay Area Dave <[email hidden]>

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You KNOW it's a rainbow post when 10,000 words or less,
mostly misspelled, are all rolled up into ONE long,
rambling paragraph. If you had proofread your post before
hitting send, you MAYBE could have corrected about 35
spelling and grammatical errors. sigh...

Do you think that anyone reading this thread didn't ALREADY
figure out that the rep has an "attitude"??

dave

spelling and grammar flames have long been considered the
lamest flames on usenet.

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rainbow said:

I just had a comment about the phone rep you had trouble
with and Medtronic. You probably were talking to an
answering service and if that is true, the operator who
told the rep you were rude is a jerk. I worked ans svc
for many years and knew operators like this. They are a
blight on the whole industry. Butwha you don;t kow is
that waht thereps tell YOU and how the service handles he
calls, at heir request, is two different things. I
apologize for that operators idiocy and rudeness. My sis
just went to work for an ans svc, that is mainly medical.
I was there for a short time. The operators are not
intentionally rude, but people do call in upset ...
individually, if the sreice doesn;t have what is called
call logger, and you aren't recorded, they get away with
too much, some of the girls and guys. However, the
Medtronic reps where I live had the service set up to
absolutely serve the customer. The reps were pretty nice.
People go served. Eventually they went to an in house
system and we no longer had them. Any rep who called me
back and chewed my ass 'cause I was upset is a jerk. Any
rep that would "threaten" not to serve me, knowing I
depend on this device, is a jerk. Any rep that would
believe what the operator said is a jerk. They all know
peple are dependent on them. 99% of the time, the reason
the operator does this, is because the have an attitude
problem. Sometimes, they have not dispatched the call
properly, and are covering their own ass. Maybe they were
trying to put something over on the rep, so the rep
wouldn't know. If their ans svc handles calls lke this, I
owuld move on to another company. Alot of ans svcs have
operators on graveyard that are long time employees. They
never change. Rainbow

On Fri, 28 May 2004 17:36:44 -0400, "poorboy" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

"Bay Area Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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You KNOW it's a rainbow post when 10,000 words or less,
mostly misspelled, are all rolled up into ONE long,
rambling paragraph. If you had proofread your post before
hitting send, you MAYBE could have corrected about 35
spelling and grammatical errors. sigh...

Do you think that anyone reading this thread didn't
ALREADY figure out that the rep has an "attitude"??

i am sorry, but i agree 100% with dave here. your posts are
simply unreadable....

it was perfectly readable.

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On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:59:42 -0400, "poorboy" <[email hidden]>

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"Cheri" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Funny, I don't have a problem reading them or
comprehending them at all. At least rainbow has something
worthwhile to say in her 10,000 words or less.

hmmm, well at least you can pick it out 🙂

if someone does not indent and space their 500 sentences, i
have trouble reading what they are trying to say. i am sure
rainbow had some valuable comments and or questions in her
mail, i simply can not read it.

sounds like a personal problem you should work on.

Mâck©® Type 1 since 1975 alt-support-diabetes.orgalt-support-diabetes.orgOpen ↗
insulin-pumpers.orginsulin-pumpers.orgOpen ↗

In tribute to the United States of America and the State of
Israel, two bastions of strength in a world filled with
strife and terrorism.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
President, or that we are to stand by the President
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public."

...Theodore Roosevelt

Have you heard of the NO-CARB Diet for 2004?

NO C-heney NO A-shcroft NO R-umsfeld NO B-ush

you are an expert in "personal problems".

Mâck©® said:

sounds like a personal problem you should work on.

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On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:59:42 -0400, "poorboy" <[email hidden]>

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hmmm, well at least you can pick it out 🙂

if someone does not indent and space their 500 sentences,
i have trouble reading what they are trying to say. i am
sure rainbow had some valuable comments and or questions
in her mail, i simply can not read it.

sounds like a personal problem you should work on.

i have no problems with anyone submitting unformatted mail,
i just have issues trying to read it. that is what my mail
said and that is what it meant. why are you responding to
such an old thread ? seems to me you are trying to bait me
and or dave... this is my last post on this matter - time to
move on now.

--
poorboy

age 38 t2 diagnosed 4/2003
D & E w/ 7.5 mg actos

Mack is more likely to bait YOU now, as I've sharply
curtailed playing his games.

dave

poorboy said:

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poorboy said:

hmmm, well at least you can pick it out 🙂

if someone does not indent and space their 500 sentences,
i have trouble reading what they are trying to say. i am
sure rainbow had some valuable comments and or questions
in her mail, i simply can not read it.

sounds like a personal problem you should work on.

i have no problems with anyone submitting unformatted
mail, i just have issues trying to read it. that is what
my mail said and that is what it meant. why are you
responding to such an old thread ? seems to me you are
trying to bait me and or dave... this is my last post on
this matter - time to move on now.

--
poorboy

age 38 t2 diagnosed 4/2003 D & E w/ 7.5 mg actos