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<blockquote data-quote="Bluey1" data-source="post: 1671971" data-attributes="member: 36344"><p>It's exactly the opposite. 11Km /7mi from the second largest city in Australia. At the moment I'm working interstate in a much smaller capital city Brisbane and there it's great. I'm no wilting violet, quite opposite. Long before I was diagnosed with D, D's had to pay for syringes. Illicit drug users got them free, since mid 80's. I have been told, a number of D's gathered together and started to collect these free syringes at these illicit drug distribution points. They started to outnumber the druggies and caused such an uproar the govt decided that D's should get syringes and then pen caps free via select pharmacies. This has led to heavily subsidised pump supplies about $1 a day. If we annoy enough people it won't take much effort for a small organised group to convince politicians that a lot of money can be saved and hence higher costs will reduce the problem or even worse legislation as well.</p><p></p><p>Even today getting sharps containers and returning full ones are run by my local council, the goody 2 shoes staff are amazing and wonderful, until they find out you are a filthy D and not one of those amazing and misunderstood illicit drug users. They have been handling the sealed sharps containers with their bare hands up to that point. It's then on with blue gloves and you get snarled at that you are wasting and abusing valuable resources and wasting the communities money and the tirade goes on and on until you able to get away. I have complained to my local politician (now ex) and they were fully aware of the problem and were not interested in fixing it.</p><p></p><p>I was just curious if there was a common pump etiquette. If people around were threatened or concerned? I'm now 8 days away from going onto a pump. </p><p></p><p></p><p>What sort of pump do you have that enables you to do that? I know the Medtronic has pretty dumb push button to bolus a predefined amount and only via their supplied device. I was hoping you could put you carb count into a phone and send it off, not possible with the Medtronic 640g.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluey1, post: 1671971, member: 36344"] It's exactly the opposite. 11Km /7mi from the second largest city in Australia. At the moment I'm working interstate in a much smaller capital city Brisbane and there it's great. I'm no wilting violet, quite opposite. Long before I was diagnosed with D, D's had to pay for syringes. Illicit drug users got them free, since mid 80's. I have been told, a number of D's gathered together and started to collect these free syringes at these illicit drug distribution points. They started to outnumber the druggies and caused such an uproar the govt decided that D's should get syringes and then pen caps free via select pharmacies. This has led to heavily subsidised pump supplies about $1 a day. If we annoy enough people it won't take much effort for a small organised group to convince politicians that a lot of money can be saved and hence higher costs will reduce the problem or even worse legislation as well. Even today getting sharps containers and returning full ones are run by my local council, the goody 2 shoes staff are amazing and wonderful, until they find out you are a filthy D and not one of those amazing and misunderstood illicit drug users. They have been handling the sealed sharps containers with their bare hands up to that point. It's then on with blue gloves and you get snarled at that you are wasting and abusing valuable resources and wasting the communities money and the tirade goes on and on until you able to get away. I have complained to my local politician (now ex) and they were fully aware of the problem and were not interested in fixing it. I was just curious if there was a common pump etiquette. If people around were threatened or concerned? I'm now 8 days away from going onto a pump. What sort of pump do you have that enables you to do that? I know the Medtronic has pretty dumb push button to bolus a predefined amount and only via their supplied device. I was hoping you could put you carb count into a phone and send it off, not possible with the Medtronic 640g. [/QUOTE]
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