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04-23-2008, 07:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 134
| | | How do you wear your pump?
Ive been wearing mine on my belt with a clip for the past year, but I finally switched to just putting it in my pocket with the clip. I'll wear the clip in bed though. What's everyone else do?
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04-23-2008, 07:41 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Australia
Posts: 181
| | | Some of my colleagues when wearing a suit, have a very small slit in the top of their pockets and so therefore can thread the tubing through their pockets, so it never gets seen apart from when they take the pump out of their pockets. Pretty cool little hiding spot!
I think when i move to the pump in a few weeks i'll have mine in my pocket as well.
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04-23-2008, 07:48 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Northern California
Posts: 6,900
| | I clip my pump to my waistband usually during the day. I wear levis and don't work or wear work clothes so dressing up or hiding my pump isn't an issue. When I dress to go out, I either put it in a pocket and remove the clip (for bulkiness reasons), or hide it someplace in my bra. Guess guys don't have that problem.  At night, I will clip it to my waistband on my night shorts. I have also just let it float free in bed with me. |
04-24-2008, 12:41 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Crestline, CA.
Posts: 176
| | | Day time:
Civ: Waste band of jeans or shorts.
Work: Clipped to belt or in pocket, depends on situation.
Night:
With shirt: In shirt pocket
Without: Clipped to front, left or right of "the boys" on boxer shorts as to not
pinch my sides when I roll-over.
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04-24-2008, 03:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 635
| | | I just clip it to my belt. Waste band at night and waste band on days where Iwear shorts. I don't care if people see it. It is not ugly so why hide it.
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04-24-2008, 04:04 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,818
| | | I used to try hard to hide it, but not anymore. If I have a little bulge, so be it . . . . many people just assume it's a phone clipped to the waist.
I love it when you have big enough pants pockets you can just slip it into.
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04-24-2008, 04:54 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 1,873
| | Daytime it's usually in my pocket... not trying to hide it, just feels more comfortable than clipped on. Although I do have it on a clip for when I need an extra hand.
Night-time it just hangs out with (ahem) everything else... sometimes I'll wake with it wrapped underneath me but I've yet to disconnect it off while sleeping 
For business trips I also have cut a small hole in the top of my trouser pockets so I can thread it through without any of the tubing showing.
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I did hear a story of a woman who had her pump hidden in her hair-do for her wedding and gave her boluses using the remote (MM)
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04-24-2008, 05:15 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: South Carolina
Posts: 115
| | | Clipped on to belt or waistband always. Casual, work, night time, suit, tux, always on the right side.
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04-24-2008, 05:15 AM
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Posts: 52
| | | I have a car with bucket seats and was breaking the belt clip when I got in and out of the car. I moved the pump to my pocket and have been happy ever since. |
04-24-2008, 06:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,683
| | | Mine is clipped to my waistband almost 24/7. I sleep with capri-style PJ bottoms during the spring & summer and clip it to the waistband.
Karen |
04-24-2008, 06:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
Posts: 1,179
| | | In my pocket (tiny slit cut at top) always. In levis I wear longer tops so I don't have a lump.I shop for clothes with adequate pockets. I pin a travel wallet or baby sock inside skirts.
The times when I clip it on my waist or pocket, I end up hitting it or knocking it off.
Slipped into boxer pocket in my pj's for sleeping.
Mich
PS Love my Cozmo, but wish it was flatter. |
04-24-2008, 07:02 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 441
| | | In my pocket since my clip broke. In bed I just let it "roam around" because I don't always lay the same way every time.
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04-24-2008, 07:19 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Posts: 1,873
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Originally Posted by PepsiLvr  In my pocket since my clip broke. In bed I just let it "roam around" because I don't always lay the same way every time. | What kind of pump? I was recently told by MM Canada that if the clip broke I should just call them for a free replacement
__________________ ~ Frank Metabolic Syndrome Dx'd March 2003. Started MM 712 Pump April 2004. MM 722 + Contour Link April 2008. "...subjects lose weight by restricting only sugars and starches, without feeling any particular sense of hunger. Moreover, the less carbohydrates in their diets, the greater their weight loss, even though all her subjects were eating equivalent amounts of calories and protein" - Gary Taubes, describing research by Margaret Ohlson |
04-24-2008, 07:24 AM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Dakota
Posts: 614
| | | Right front pocket of my jeans.
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10/6/08 A1c 5.1 8/11/08 A1c 5.2 5/12/08 A1c 4.9 2/18/08 A1c 4.9 11/2007 A1c 5.3
8/2007 A1c 5.5 6/2007 A1c 5.7 3/2007 A1c 6.9 12/2006, A1c 7.8 9/2006, A1c 8.5
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04-24-2008, 07:36 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 545
| | | I love clipped in the pocket. When I first got the pump I was kind of looking forward to working out holsters and places to put it: but the pocket is so secure, handy, easy, natural, I just can't fault it.
At night I let it roam. As I sleep without clothes it just seems to sleep right beside me. I seem to naturally move it to a better spot if I turn over etc.
BUT I must admit I have a tendancy to wake up sleeping right on top of it. It's not the softest thing to sleep ON. I'm considering putting it inside a small pillow or soft toy like I saw on some forum (here?).
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