How to handle your tubed pump when you are naked or scantily clad … for Friday’s Diabetes Blog Week Post. Just off the top of my head … wanting to jump in to Diabetes Blog Week … yeahhhh!!!
(OK, I’m not going to say WHY I’m naked or WHEN … nor any other details … just that it can happen!)
- Stick pump under breast
- Not intended for most men!
- If you are indisposed, don’t stand up without holding on to the pump
- Stash pump in underpants, just under waistband
- Remember to hold on to pump if you need to remove panties
- Hold pump under chin
- Works fine for short periods of time or while you are dressing
- Can cause stiff neck
- Snuggle pump under armpit
- Not good for hot and sticky days
- Remember not to raise your hand in class while doing this
- Wrap tubing around neck, like a loosely tied scarf
- Works best with 43” tubing
- Weight of the pump can cause a noose-like tightening of the tubing
- Bind it in an armband or thigh band
- Just make sure the band is tight enough to stay in place
- Try to use cool-looking bands
- Clasp tubing loosely between teeth, as if you were dancing tango with a rose
- Be careful not to bite hard
- Try not to drool
- Place pump on head
- This works well if you are sitting still in a Jacuzzi
- Be sure pump does not slide off head
That’s it for my first Diabetes Blog Week entry … Happy Friday!!!
Nice! Now I’m going to always think of people putting pumps on their heads… great hack-list! Thanks for posting for D-Blog Week!
Hi Mike … thanks. Remember to think of them with pumps on their heads whilst bobbing in a bubbling, boiling Jacuzzi!
giggling!
Thanks so much, Colleen … obviously you understand!
Not intended for most men.
Try to use cool-looking bands.
Try not to drool.
!!! I love this post!
You’re fun.
Thanks Katy … it was fun writing it too!
I’ve used the underpants waistband trick a time or two going through security at airports. It’s very weird though when the pump escapes and travels down your leg hanging by the tubing:-)
Hi Laddie … I’m in the process of buying my first thigh thingie. I thought I had measured correctly until I received my order. The band instantly slid down, past my knees and settled in a pile on my shoe! Waiting for a replacement smaller size.
Half-giggle, half-snort over here. Thank you. 🙂
Thanks Kim!
Let’s see… Can’t do the first one. Tried the second one (multiple times) but it always ends up falling and striking me in the kneecap. Not to confident on the third (but worth a try). A bit grossed out by the fourth. I’ve done the fifth (when the tubing is long enough). Don’t have the supplies for the sixth. I do the seventh all the time — usually just with my lips though. No shot at the eighth working on account of baldness and poor posture.
But I love the list!
Thanks Scott! Sadly, I’ve tried them all … I feel like a pro! I even had a friend design a hang-around-your-neck pouch … it was adorable but once I started to walk, it was swing side to side, picking up momentum the faster I walked … and I ended up holding the pouch still.
But if you do drool, it simply slides down the tubing!