Comments on: Nic ‘Clumsy’ Reade.

By: BeingDiabetic.co.nz | Aaron: Know a good tailor?

BeingDiabetic.co.nz | Aaron: Know a good tailor? — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:37:57 +0000

[...] from work and noticed it one day. Then there are also those times that you catch the tubing on a door jam/handle, baby’s legs, seatbelt or whatever it may be and rip the whole thing out causing a fair deal [...]

By: Sianne

Sianne — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:35:30 +0000

Another good thing about wearing it on my ankle No issues re getting tubing stuck on stuff

By: Jade

Jade — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:11:29 +0000

With having young kids the risk of them pulling the tubing was too great so I have always tucked the tubing in my pants/jeans etc and used the bra pouch also. I have just got the Accu-chek combo so not having to pull pump out means it can be truly tucked away – sometimes even pin it in a pouch to my knickers!!.

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:45:09 +0000

Hey Nic now you’ve come up with a great new feature for future pumps! They already have truckloads of reminders, they can add a new one, “TUCK IN YOUR TUBING”!! Hee hee

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:08:57 +0000

Kay – maybe I need to set up a couple of daily alerts on my phone reminding me to tuck in my tubing!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000

It does take the biscuit doesn’t it! I actually wear all of mine under my clothes. In the early days I had little holes in my clothes to thread the tubing through and wore the pump on a belt around my waist outside my clothing. Nowadays I use some little cloth bags with clips on that I bought from Roche and I clip the pump onto my bra. The pump is domed into the bag and hangs upside down.
It fits easily clipped under my arm, but generally I wear it at the front, unless I’ve got very fitting clothes on. Before I got these I used money pouches around my waist; tucked it into my bra and various other methods. However, I have been known to drop the whole thing out if I haven’t clipped it on securely. A bit disconcerting having it dangling down as you walk along! Some of the pumps I’ve had were difficult when bathing or showering because they couldn’t be disconnected. I used to have a shower bag and I hung the pump outside the shower – it was a bit restricting movement-wise sometimes. Awkward if I was away from home and had nowhere to hang it. I used to always use long tubing, but now I prefer a shorter one, so that there is not so much to ‘tuck in’.

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:51:03 +0000

I think if you asked children that pump, “what is the one thing that your parents say to you all the time, that bugs you?” the answer would have to be “tuck in your tubing!” LOL or maybe it’s just me that sweats the small stuff. I use to worry all the time about my daughter pulling a site out in that manner, and even after 7 years of pumping I might still be heard to say “tuck in your tubing”!!

By: Nic

Nic — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:26:46 +0000

Makes me think – pumps like the Accu-chek Combo or Dana R would be great in that regard because you can have the whole unit (cord and all) totally tucked away under your clothes, and use the remote/wireless unit to program boluses without having to get near your body.

Also, for people like Sianne who wears her pump around her ankle with the cord going up her trousers – no door-related incidents happening there either!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:46:57 +0000

Door handles are a menace…an absolute menace! The number of times that I’ve done the same (although I never actually SEVERED the cord) has led me to thinking about cutting holes in my pockets and overlocking them so I can thread the tube under my clothes and not have it exposed at all.

Haven’t done it though of course…too lazy.

By: Nic

Nic — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:00:15 +0000

Luckily though, it’s only the bit that actually plugs into the pump, not the needle-y bit, so it was easy.