Sometimes I feel like a ticking time bomb, the pressure of diabetes just grows and grows, until I give up and have to restart emotionally. Here's a little story of how it happened recently. Saturday morning I woke up at 6am to constant "bad sensor" errors....over, and over, and over and over. Eventually I got out of bed to find a solution that didn't involve putting my pump down a garbage disposal. Well, seeing as how my Minimed sensor had been in for about a week a gave it a break, didn't destroy my pump, and figured I was due for a sensor change anyway so I yanked it out. Now here's where the trouble began...I took a long bath to relax (and also because I love bathing when i have no gadgets stuck in or on me). After that my skin was perfectly clean and I was ready for my new sensor. As usual I inserted the sensor just fine but when I tried to pull out the introductory needle the entire sensor came with it (so much for 'clean' skin). I was extremely frustrated because these things are painful, they are nothing like your typical disposable syringe. I couldn't let myself get too upset because i was thankful that it came out in once piece (sensor and needle) which means I could give that $35 sensor another go before tossing it, and hope for the best. Anyway, on my second attempt I did get the needle out, but shortly after the adhesive peeled up and the sensor slipped out. Okay now I was angry, there went $35 out of my pocket. So then came round three, this time it went beautifully! I even got my adhesive over the transmitter to be nice and smooth, perfectly even, all OCD friendly :) .....but it gave me constant "bad sensor" errors for the next two hours until I gave up, yanked it out and (aggressively) threw it 'at' the trash (missing of course). Now I had wasted $70, in one day, on NOTHING. Needless to say I gave up for the weekend, I didn't so much as want to see those things for a while. I should also mention that I just found out this week that I am denied coverage for my sensors, that explains why I got so incredibly frustrated with this.
Well, after I recovered, I put another sensor in this morning and everything is going well. I'll get another 7-10 days out of this puppy. hooray
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We all use that refresh button sometimes! Glad you didn't break anything (I've been on that edge myself!).
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