Sorry K8tie, should have said....
Fill the cartridge with insulin from vial. I keep insulin in the fridge myself but others keep it in the living room. What ever way u store the vial in use doesnt matter that much as unless the room temperature is fairly warm, the insulin in the cartridge still wont be warm enough to be at body temp so once youve filled the cartridge, cap it off and put in yr bra for a few hrs to get to body temp. I keep the pump in my bra as its out of the way and is nice and safe and no one ever sees it.
Once the cartridge has got to body temp, u should see 1 or 2 air bubbles appearing. Just hold the cartridge upright in good light and using yr thumb nail, flick the bubble up to the top of cartridge and try to get the bubble to line up in the centre under the luer neck and then using the blue plunger thing gently push the bubble up the neck and remove the cartridge cap holding a piece of tissue paper to catch the tiny amount of insulin that will come out. Once youve done that, cap the cartridge off again keeping it upright and then twist in new tube into black cartridge adaptor and take off cap and push the black adaptor with tube already in it onto the cartridge and keeping the pump upright, insert the whole lot in the pump and tighten up the new tube in the black adaptor. U should with any luck be ok and not get any problems.
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