Couldn't you just shove it into the back of your waistband, like TV-staff do with the radio transmitters from their clip-on microphones?
Are we being assimilated?
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Never had something stuck to you with a bit inside you with a short length of wire connected to a rather weighty thing at the end and then fall and rip off have you.
Like @Dimesdan implied, doorknobs are thine enemy. The only thing worse than tearing out an infusion site by getting caught on something is when it doesn't tear out and the pump dangles. Ouch!
I have a few tricks. I like the In Between the Boobies spot because it is just really the most comfortable, plus, being right on my sternum I feel all the vibra alerts. For some garments I make a button-hole in the pocket so I can run the tubing through that. I also have a Girly Go Garter but I wish they made some that weren't so girly. I want a bad ass leather one so it looks like I'm holstering a knife to my thigh!
Sounds grim.
It's far better than multiple injections per day.
Indeed it is, sometimes at night I don't clip anywhere, get up and forget I didn't clip it which is always a shock.
The other waistband issue is the terror every time you use the bathroom that it'll come unclipped while you pull down your pants and your $6,000 pump will fall in the toilet!
As a matter of fact I had and it left an impressive scar. Good Point.
How about a sort of kidney-belt into which can stick the pump at the backside?
And if you wear the tube under your clothing, you oughtn't have the doorknob prob either.
Wearing the pump at your back has the advantage that it becomes invisble since the small of your back is concave and your clothing will hide itcompletely. The disadvantage is that you must be careful when lying back, else you might mash the pump. And it's not suitable for wild dancing as the pump can slide up and down a bit.
I like the holster idea, TSQ =) Couldn't you revamp a gun holster or a knife sheath? Or hold on, there was someone posting in a crafts thread that he started leatherwork recently. I'm sure he could come up with a really cool desig that's totally not girlish. Definitely something more stylish than this:
@rhubarbodendron , you learn a ton of ways to wear your pump after having one for years. As for tubing, pump tubing is sneaky -- it slips out, catches on things, and ties itself in knots no matter what you do.
The small of your back is a good place for when you're sleeping, but otherwise a bad place because you can't sit back in a chair. Plus, if you're wearing a tight top you'd just have a big bulk there. It doesn't help that I'm a smallish person, so in proportion to my body the pump is bigger and stands out more.
I very rarely wear it in a garter, but I have thought about things like having leatherwork added or repurposing another type of holster. They make armbands, waistbands, and thigh bands specifically for pumps. It has to be very secure, though -- again, we're talking about a $6,000 piece of equipment that your life literally depends on. Plus, I don't really have the money to have anything custom made right now. It's definitely something I think about, though!
The small of your back is a good place for when you're sleeping, but otherwise a bad place because you can't sit back in a chair. Plus, if you're wearing a tight top you'd just have a big bulk there. It doesn't help that I'm a smallish person, so in proportion to my body the pump is bigger and stands out more.
I very rarely wear it in a garter, but I have thought about things like having leatherwork added or repurposing another type of holster. They make armbands, waistbands, and thigh bands specifically for pumps. It has to be very secure, though -- again, we're talking about a $6,000 piece of equipment that your life literally depends on. Plus, I don't really have the money to have anything custom made right now. It's definitely something I think about, though!
Also, even as a cyborg, I just can't get over how amazing my tech is. I mean, I look at my phone and I feel like it's a medical tricorder, and it's so fucking awesome. I've been making memes for diabetes awareness, but they're perfect examples of that. I mean, look at this:
This is me. Those are my bad dreams plotted on a graph on my iPhone, through the effect they have on my body. It's hard having a chronic illness; it's a constant battle and one often becomes demotivated, sometimes to the point of giving up. And it's annoying having to be wired up all the time, I mean, think about casual sexual encounters and having to explain all the attachments on your body, having to unplug for a fling and ruin a tender moment to plug back in. But it's also truly fascinating how much we can do and it's humbling to be able to see yourself as an example of human ingenuity. Had I been born a hundred years ago I would have died at the age of twelve. Now, thanks to the pioneering work of Banting, thanks to GMO, thanks to computers and phones and bluetooth, I'm not only alive but getting healthier as each technological advancement helps me to improve my control.
So, luddites, quit your bitching about assimilation.
In all seriousness, in addition to my initial post about the wonders of smart phone tech, my smart phone is part of my life support system. And it is fucking awesome.
This is me. Those are my bad dreams plotted on a graph on my iPhone, through the effect they have on my body. It's hard having a chronic illness; it's a constant battle and one often becomes demotivated, sometimes to the point of giving up. And it's annoying having to be wired up all the time, I mean, think about casual sexual encounters and having to explain all the attachments on your body, having to unplug for a fling and ruin a tender moment to plug back in. But it's also truly fascinating how much we can do and it's humbling to be able to see yourself as an example of human ingenuity. Had I been born a hundred years ago I would have died at the age of twelve. Now, thanks to the pioneering work of Banting, thanks to GMO, thanks to computers and phones and bluetooth, I'm not only alive but getting healthier as each technological advancement helps me to improve my control.
So, luddites, quit your bitching about assimilation.
In all seriousness, in addition to my initial post about the wonders of smart phone tech, my smart phone is part of my life support system. And it is fucking awesome.
I've never seen technology as a problem. In fact, I am among those who believe that you can never have too much of technology.
Gadget lover here.
But I have gone off failbook and messenger on my phone. I used to stare at that a lot but lately I've turned off network data and just use the PC when I am home to do that kind of thing.
I have gotten into my mindset that hey this is a bloody phone it's for phone calls and that's what I do with it now.
People are being lulled into this world of technology and being turned into zombies staring at their phones. It's all bread and circuses, distract the population with shiny things while you do stuff over there and they can't complain because they are distracted.
But I have gone off failbook and messenger on my phone. I used to stare at that a lot but lately I've turned off network data and just use the PC when I am home to do that kind of thing.
I have gotten into my mindset that hey this is a bloody phone it's for phone calls and that's what I do with it now.
People are being lulled into this world of technology and being turned into zombies staring at their phones. It's all bread and circuses, distract the population with shiny things while you do stuff over there and they can't complain because they are distracted.
Oh you mean how like social media spurred the Arab Spring? Or brought attention to the price-gouging of medication in the US for the first time in a decade? Or how it was entirely responsible for the first real chance a Democratic Socialist had at the US Presidency? Or how it's served as almost the only news coverage of the largest American Indian protest in US history that almost every major news source has completely ignored?
Dude, the whole "UR PHONES ARE MAKING U ZOMBIES WAKE UP SHEEPLE" is Holden Caulfield level contrarian nonsense.
I love Bradbury as much as the next nerd, but tech just isn't spawning the mindless dystopian idiocracy deep-thinking high schoolers think it is. It's doing the opposite. All that, while giving us gifs of animals getting stuck in things to boot.
Perfection is a meaningless word in this context.
OH NOS THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY! BE CAREFUL BEFORE IT SUCKS YOU IN AND YOU CAN"T GET OUT!@@!!!!1!!
d'awwwww 
OH NOS THE DANGERS OF TECHNOLOGY! BE CAREFUL BEFORE IT SUCKS YOU IN AND YOU CAN"T GET OUT!@@!!!!1!!
Aaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww gotta admit that is kinda cute.
Not dangers but we're becoming too reliant on technology to a degree.
Also it's kind of cultish. Like the recent iphone launch. Thousands of people sitting to watch a phone being launched. You have to be seriously kidding me .
That's been said in one way or another since the beginning of the industrial revolution, it wasn't true then and certainly not true now.
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