Dying OmniPod PDM
I always love getting woken up by a loud annoying beep in the middle of the night. It is even better when it is the device that sends commands to the insulin pump currently attached to your body. And... it gets even better when it decides that it has had a massive error and gives you the option to reset it or continue listening to the annoying beep. So, I reset it. Which then becomes even cooler, because it makes me remove the Insulin pod I was wearing for some reason unknown to me but known to the device. So I pull off the insulin pod, reset it and go to back to sleep.
When I wake up, I found out the PDM (Personal Diabetes Manager) has decided to die again -- for about the tenth time in the past few days.. while on fresh batteries. This necessitates a call into Insulet's (the makers of the OmniPod) tech support. After a few simple questions they decide to overnight a new PDM along with a return label for the one I have that doesn't want to work. Which is completely awesome. However, (no fault of Insulet's) I'm stuck using insulin pens for today and maybe some of tomorrow. I'm really not a fan of sticking myself 4+ times a day in the gut. Just really doesn't seem like the best insulin delivery system.