Re: Is anyone using the Omnipod?

willbill <trek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:21:29 -0600:
Alan Mackenzie wrote:

Vicki Beausoleil <VBeausoleil@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 02 Mar 2006
23:29:16 -0500:

fwiw, if i had a young t1 kid, i wouldn't want them having to carry a
pump (and thus be different from other kids). and i wouldn't want my
kid to have to carry an insulin syringe during the day

For what it's worth, I didn't take a syringe to school, 7-11, and only
occasionally 11-18 (when I new I'd be needing it). Being wired up to a
device all day, every day, must take its toll on a young kid - She can
never ever pretend to be "normal". With my one injection per day, there
were long periods (many hours) when I could forget about it.

hence my suggestion to nico to have his young t1 daughter take 2
shots/day (not counting small correction shots). namely a rising shot
of beef-L (or beef-L mixed with beef-R), and a faster evening meal
insulin shot

Were I a dad in that position, I'd prefer something like that, too.
Still, Nico's in a position where he can't do that without an enormous
outlay of time, money and hassle, and that isn't exactly healthy either,
or conducive to a good marriage. I just hope that the analogs will turn
out to be innocuous.

For a little kid, pumping with any machine would be better than MDI by
a long shot. Pushing a couple of buttons to suspend would be a heck of
a lot easier than trying to force half a juice box into a hypo
youngster. That's just for starters.

I was a little kid (7 years old), and I am truly grateful that I was
stabilised with SDI (not MDI)

i'll bite. :)

what is SDI?

I just invented it, as a contrast with MDI: "Single daily injection".
;-)

i personally have to think that coughran (t1), reid (t1), and mendoza
(t2) are all carefully (and quietly) distancing themselves from biggs

Hey, willbill, you don't need to attack him personally. That does
nothing but lower the tone in the newsgroup. If he says something
peculiar, he'll get called on it. He did indeed just say something
peculiar: that the old insulins were "failures" for the majority of T1s.

--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@xxxxxxxx; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
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