[Diabetes-talk] wearing your pump

[Veronica Elsea]

My older pumps came with the cutest little shower bags. I'd just hang 
them on the shower head and enjoy my shouer. And even when you detach 
the pump, you don't always remove the cannula. The only place where 
things sometimes got kind of comical was getting out of the shower. 
Nothing quite like forgetting the pump is hanging on the shower head 
and trying to do that big leap out of the shower! Oops! But this was 
kind of necessary in the early days because it was more common to 
have tubing that was not detachable from the cannula. Now that most 
pumps can be so easily detached and reattached, it's not such a big 
deal. Most companies will give their pumps ratings for water up to a 
certain depth. But there's plenty of debate and discussion going on 
about what is water proof and what is water resistant. So I will 
bathe with mine and I have done swimming with it by making a holder 
out of netting which I velcroed to my bathing suit. But I haven't 
been swimming much lately so it hasn't come up. I am looking forward 
to the newer models though.
Veronica
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