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Taking an Insulin Pump Hiatus? Hey, There’s an App for That!

By AllisonN on December 4, 2012

The other day, my dad told me that he’d recently hired a woman at his company who has LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults). She wears an insulin pump, and when he mentioned that I went off my pump this Spring and went back to taking multiple shots a day, the woman was apparently shocked and couldn’t figure out why I would “go backwards.”
It’s true that switching from a pump to multiple daily injections…

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What to Do if Your Insulin Pump Malfunctions

By AllisonN on August 23, 2011

There’s nothing quite like the horror of having an insulin pump suddenly go postal at eleven o’clock on a Saturday night. The buttons that don’t respond to touch, the motor that spins wildly, the shrieking alarms. It’s almost enough to induce a panic attack!
Although insulin pumps are the treatment method of choice for both Amy and I, they are machines. Which means that sometimes they go kaputt. Unlike Amy who rocks an Omnipod, I…

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