I'm about to tell you a story about the major disaster which affected much of my decisionmaking on my week-long vacation to Santa Fe. I just got home to LA, ...

I know a lot of people whose lives depend on access to medicine. I know fewer other people whose lives also depend on the machinery and software used to dose that medicine. Insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other crucial, always-on medical equipment are crazy useful but also contain the possibility for insane frustration and resentment. I’ve been pretty honest over the years that I value having an insulin pump, but that I also hate the manufacturers and designers of every pump I’ve ever used. If you introduced me to any person who has ever designed an insulin pump I’ve used, I would probably punch them in the face and cuss them out in front of their children. Every single pump I’ve used as caused me massive problems - though none as bad as the one I’m about to describe.

  • Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I’m 100% with you. It just felt like an exercise in picking every little detail of existing with diabetes apart and complaining about everything. Look at living with diabetes without a pump at all compared to a decent one like the t.slim, her complaints just seem so overblown.