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<blockquote data-quote="Snapsy" data-source="post: 1495194" data-attributes="member: 265172"><p>Oh forgot to say [USER=348543]@Lindy01[/USER] - I was lent an old pump for a week that they had hanging around at the diabetes centre - and I was given a cannula and hosepipe - I stuck the cannula on myself (without the needle, so it was just like a plaster) and wore the pump in a variety of ways - in a sports belt, in my trouser pocket, on my bra, etc - and slept with it both in a belt and 'free range' and got used to disconnecting it and reconnecting it for daily swimming and showering and erm other things that one might like to disconnect for <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> and it was really all much much less of a 'thing' that I'd imagined.</p><p></p><p>The issues I had when starting on my pump were solely to do with getting my basal rate and bolus ratios and correction ratios sorted, which took a while. But the hosepipe thing has always been fine.</p><p></p><p>Do ask if they've got an old tubed pump you could try on, with its hosepipe.</p><p></p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite37" alt=":happy:" title="Happy :happy:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":happy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snapsy, post: 1495194, member: 265172"] Oh forgot to say [USER=348543]@Lindy01[/USER] - I was lent an old pump for a week that they had hanging around at the diabetes centre - and I was given a cannula and hosepipe - I stuck the cannula on myself (without the needle, so it was just like a plaster) and wore the pump in a variety of ways - in a sports belt, in my trouser pocket, on my bra, etc - and slept with it both in a belt and 'free range' and got used to disconnecting it and reconnecting it for daily swimming and showering and erm other things that one might like to disconnect for ;) and it was really all much much less of a 'thing' that I'd imagined. The issues I had when starting on my pump were solely to do with getting my basal rate and bolus ratios and correction ratios sorted, which took a while. But the hosepipe thing has always been fine. Do ask if they've got an old tubed pump you could try on, with its hosepipe. :happy: [/QUOTE]
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