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09-27-2007, 12:45 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Georgia
Posts: 65
| |  I Need Your Input
Hubby is going to be a heart patient once again in a hopsital that is very far from where we live. We will have to drive about 8 hours to get there ,then he is to be admitted.
I'm not nice any more (not that I ever was)  So I need to now how to keep my insulin cold for a week or more? In a hopsital ???
So far I have only come up with kissing up to any staff member that has connections to ICE!! Any body been there done this and got the answer? If it was for a day I have the blue plastic things you put inthe freezer but they won't hold that long 
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09-27-2007, 03:04 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Georgia
Posts: 65
| | | Okay since I must have put this question under the wrong part of the board can some one tell me how to delete it?
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09-27-2007, 03:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 2,095
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Originally Posted by desperado  ... So I need to now how to keep my insulin cold for a week or more? In a hopsital ???.... | Your insulin should be ok at room temperature. You don't want to have to wait to get access to your insulin. So I wouldn't give it to anyone else to refrigerate.
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09-27-2007, 03:58 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,299
| | | Like BlueSky says, your insulin should be fine at room temps for a week.
I keep my current Lantus cartridge at room temp for the week it takes to use it up.
I keep my Novolog cartridge at room temps for the ??? days it takes to use it up.
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09-27-2007, 04:12 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,583
| | | You're fine w/o ice or refridgeration, just as mentioned.
In my experience, hospitals are always freezing anyway! |
09-27-2007, 04:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,667
| | I've always kept my open bottles of insulin at room temp. You should be fine!  Good luck with your husband, I hope everything turns out well for him! |
09-27-2007, 06:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Bucks County, PA, USA
Posts: 981
| | | It will be fine. And whatever you do, don't give it to anyone at the hospital. WHo knows what will happen to it!
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09-28-2007, 12:13 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Do Dah, OZ, aka Kansas
Posts: 4,543
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Originally Posted by desperado Okay since I must have put this question under the wrong part of the board can some one tell me how to delete it? | Not that there was anything wrong with where you put it. It probably would have been responded to earlier in the thread it's going to.
BTW the redirect is set for a week. |
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