World Diabetes Day. Around here, we live that every day. For example, in Kohls dressing room trying on bras on Saturday. Grace bumped her Pod (her insulin pump) and a minute later, it started screeching. It's a high pitch death wail that goes to your brain with the thought of 'CHANGE ME NOW!'
Grace just looked at me and then covered her Pod with her hand, hoping to quiet it. She said 'They are going to think we are ripping off sensor tags in here!' which I then found funny as hell cause they probably are! Then we set about changing her whole pump site. At least it was a semi-clean place, we have changed pumps in way dirtier environments.
To get the alarming pump to stop squealing, I had to jam a paperclip into a tiny hole in the back of the pump. I managed to kill it, shutting it up. By the time we got done we both were laughing. And that's how we celebrated World Diabetes Day.
