Substitute teachers never seem to believe me when I tell them it is my meter or pump. Maybe they just assume that I'm trying to fool them because they are a sub? But it is so embarassing when a teacher is screaming at you for having a cell phone.
Once I wanted to go to the nurse and the sub did not believe I was diabetic. I even offered to check my blood sugar in front of him to prove it and he finally let me go but still told me he did not believe me. Later on I found out he had been fired because of various other things that occured during his stay.
last year i would use the phone in my class room and i wuz calling the nurse and i picked up the phone and the substitute teacher yelled at me she wuz like what r u doing! hang up the phone ...what r u dong i wuz like im calling the nurse......she wuz like oh no ur not i wuz like i have 2 and...at this point the wholee class wuz staring at me so it wuz pretty embarrising so my best freind got up and said its ok she can use the phone she has permission .....thank god for bffls lol
well, this one has absolubtly nothing to do with the pump, but it was kinda funny.....
the other day my 5yr old was trying to take plastic shrink wrap off of something with his teeth. I said 'ezekiel, don't eat the plastic!' in all seriousness he looked at me quizzically and asked 'why does it have carbohydrates?'
well, this one has absolubtly nothing to do with the pump, but it was kinda funny.....
the other day my 5yr old was trying to take plastic shrink wrap off of something with his teeth. I said 'ezekiel, don't eat the plastic!' in all seriousness he looked at me quizzically and asked 'why does it have carbohydrates?'
Wearing a dress and an insulin pump is always an adventure with me. For my friend's wedding, I bought a halter style dress that wouldn't allow me to put the pump in my bra, like I had done with previous dresses. So I ordered the thigh holster and was going to use that. However I left the holster at home when I travelled out of town for the wedding. My friends and I improvised-and braided yarn to go around my waist, around my thigh, connecting both of them to a little bag my friend had. It worked-when I wasn't moving. Needless to say, the pump hit the dance floor a few times that night...
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It's hard for me to wear dresses too. lol. I always feel like my underwear is about to fall off because of my pump. I think it also looks weird. I think they should make dresses special for diabetics. That would be a cool idea.
so far! i've had the ever popular site getting pulled off when changing clothes! <--i think everyone has... its almost inevitable...
and then once @ school, my pump dropped and i quickly put it back in my shorts w/o realizing that it was still rapped around one of the desk legs, and i stood up to go find something, and out came the pump site. OUCH that hurt!
I remember talking with the school nurse and another type 1 back in middle school, when I didn't have a pump. I was asking her about her pump and what she thought of it. She had just moved to my area and started schooling with me at my school and so she had stories from her other school. She told me there was this one time when she was walking down the hallway with her pump on her belt and the reminder alarm went off just as she was passing a teacher and the teacher turns around and grabs the pump off of her belt and says "there are no cell phones in school" and this taking of the pump ripped out her site. She told me her mother flipped out at this teacher when she came to drop off site changing supplies at her school. If I were her I wouldn't have waited for my mom I would have been livid.
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OMG thats horrible! they should have reported it to the principal, atleast gotten the teacher fired.
When I was in high school, there was this guy, he was a little off. He asked me if my pump was an ipod. I decided to have some fun with it so I told him "yeah, it is" he then proceeded to ask to see it and I told him he couldn't because it was attached and powered by my pulse. He believed me.
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haha. the mean girls in middle school always tried to take it from me and told teachers that I had an ipod with me and they got in so much trouble because one day it wasn't all the way on (the minimed, like when you take it off to shower, it wasn't all the way on,) so when one grabbed it and brought it to the teacher he freaked and i thought it was hilarious!