[Diabetes-talk] using the insulin pump

Wed Mar 2 12:30:30 UTC 2011

I have been training on it for 1 day already and I have the pump on.

for the 1st week they have saline in it so that I know what I am doing.

I have some vision but not enough to read the LCD Screens.

But it only has 5 buttons on it, and the person training me has worked with the blind before and I have the latest model from Medtronics, a little different then my daughter pump, she is sighted and has used the pump for about 4 years.

Nelson was not home when we were doing the training, the diabetic educator from my doctors office is training me on it.  Since he knows me already and what I can handle and not.

the buttons are raised on it, so far I am doing it correctly.

and we practiced a few times putting the battery in, also how to change the sets, meaning filling the pump, and attaching it to my body, it was hard at first, but now in less then 24 hours it has become second nature to me.

I am a fast learner, always was even when I was sighted.

I am not saying that everyone will get it at first, but they will not have you use it with insulin in the pump until you can totally do it, and if you have a person who will help you change the pump when you need to fill it again, use them at first make sure that they are at the training sessions with you.

Let them watch you do it, and that you can do it yourself.

If not then if you are a person that needs help use help nothing wrong in it.

Using the pump over the needle has advantages, you have closer in range numbers with your readings because you have continuous insulin, also you are not counting carbs to figure out your before meal insulin, if you are 200 and you know that when you are this high before dinner, it is the same amount of insulin you will give yourself that you would with a needle.

Also, you don't have to worry about sticking yourself, which I have done many of times.

I may write something up for the Braille Monitor on a first time pump user from the needle.

You will have better readings and you will feel better, and you will not need lantus when you use the pump either.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Freeman<mailto:k7uij at panix.com> 
  To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?

  Bridgit:

  In order to admit that a talking pump might be useful, one must acknowledge
  to oneself and to others that one is blind.  How many of those dealing with
  diabetic retinopathy do you suppose are ready to do that?  Of those who do
  admit it, how many use a pump?  I suspect that this last number is perhaps a
  thousand at most.  In other words, there is little economic incentive
  tempting pump manufacturers to enter this extremely limited market.  This
  situation won't ultimately change until we secure passage of our Technology
  Bill of Rights for the Blind.

  Mike Freeman

  -----Original Message-----
  From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org>
  [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bridgit Pollpeter
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 5:03 PM
  To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?

  Since diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness, you would
  think they would develop more tools and items like talking insulin
  pumps.

  My nurse educator pushes for this whenever she speaks at conferences, or
  attends seminars.  It just makes sense.

  If they can make some of the talking toys I see for children, they can
  certainly produce an insulin pump.

  Why are we always fighting for this stuff?  It gets tiring.

  Bridgit P

  -----Original Message-----
  From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org>
  [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of tom
  Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 11:32 AM
  To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?

   Talking insulin pump..............again another miracle on the
  threashhold.  

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com<mailto:k7uij at panix.com>>
  To: Diabetes Talk for the Blind <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org<mailto:diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>>
  Sent: Tue, Mar 1, 2011 11:30 am
  Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Talking Insulin pump is it out yet?

  Bonna:

  The answers are NO and NO.  Manufacturers are notoriously
  overly-optimistic re 

  release dates.

  Mike Freeman

  sent from my iPhone

  On Mar 1, 2011, at 8:17, Bonna Williamson <bwilliamson at redeemer.net<mailto:bwilliamson at redeemer.net>>
  wrote:

  > 

  > Last year I received a phone call from Prada gee regarding their new 
  > talking

  insulin pump that is supposed to be on the market the first quarter of
  this 

  year. Is it available yet? If not, do they have a release date to the
  blind 

  diabetic?

  > Thanks for any input. It is greatly appreciated.

  > Bonna Williamson

  > 

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