Friday, April 28, 2006

What eles can it be called?

As many of you know, I am diabetic. Well, this last August, I recieved an insulin pump (a $6600 tiny machine which I got FREE from the sponsership of Minimed and Variaty Club).
So, this is the pump.
1. The place where the battery goes (it only takes a triple a battery and it lasts for approximatly 2 months!)
2. This is the screen (obviously). You can't see it on this one but along the top, it shows me the time, how much battery power is left, and how much insulin is left. It's also where you see things like the menu.
3. This is where the insulin is stored. You can put up to 300 units in there which will last me for approximatly 5-6 days.
4. This button brings you the menu. There's way to many things in the menu so I won't bother listing them all. Also, if I want to give myself some insulin, I press this button and it will do what I ask.
5. This button is the escape button. Obviously you press it to get out of a screen that you no longer want to be in. If you press it on the main screen, then it will show you things like the date, exactly how much insulin is left, how much time you have left before you have to change it...etc.
6. You would push this button if you want to give yourself some insuline. When you press it, it asks you how many carbs you are eating and what your blood sugar is at. When you finish putting that in, it shows you how much you should give yourself. After that, you push the Act button (#4).
7. This, and the next button, you use to put in what your blood sugar is and how many carbs you're going to eat and scroll up and down and menu. If you press this button on the main screen, it will beeb at you. Each beep signifies 1 unit of insulin. It's just a fast way of giving yourself some insulin.
8. If you press this button on the main screen, a backlight comes on.

So, now that you know how it works and what it looks like, I will get to the whole point of this post. When you look at this pump, if you don't know what it is, what do you think it is? Well, here's a list of all the thing that it has been called:

1. an mp3 player
2. an ipod
3. a pager
4. a phone
5. a step counter
6. a tuner
7. (only 1 person has got this one) an insulin pump

2 Comments:

At 11:52 PM, Blogger Julene said...

Rosie, I sure am glad that you got this new "mp 3 player/ipod/pager/phone/step counter/tuner"! Now you can visit us here and can eat normally! Must be nice to have a "mp 3 player/ipod/pager/phone/step counter/tuner all in one! Sweet deal :-)

 
At 4:41 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

i knew what it was as soon as i saw it! yay for me!

 

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