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11-04-2008, 04:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 8,563
| |  Interesting Encounter Today
For those who don't know, I work in a clothing store. I had an interesting encounter with a customer and her daughter today. 
I was walking by the entrance to the dressing room when I saw this lady and her daughter walking out. I saw that the daughter had the cutest little pouch on the waistband of her jeans. Since I started pumping, I'm noticing more and more things lately. This little girl (8-10yrs) had the tell tale tubing coming out the side of her pouch. I actually chased this lady and her daughter through the store. I walked up to them and asked "Can I ask where you got your pump case?" The daughter seemed shocked at first until she looked at the waistband of my pants and saw my pump. The mother told me where she found the case online. The daughter asked how long I had been pumping. When I told her 1 yr, she said "Ha Ha, I got you beat. I've been pumping for 3 yrs". Just to keep the humor going, I told her "Well, I can do you one better. I've been diabetic longer than you have been alive". She replied "No Way!!! How long you been one?" I told her 24 yrs and she was shocked. She told me that she didn't know many diabetics and only a few pump wearers. I told her and her mother that they could come back in and we would talk diabetes and pumps any time she wanted to. She thanked me and left smiling.
How's that for a good experience?!?! 
__________________  ~Cin~ Mom always says I'm special. Hmmm........wonder what she means by that?? LOL.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
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11-04-2008, 04:50 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Posts: 430
| | That's a cool story. Probably gave the girl some hope (seeing an "old" person w/ T1  ;-) .. (not that you're old, just compared to an 8 year old! |
11-04-2008, 04:55 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Colorado
Posts: 428
| | This made me smile! How awesome for that little girl to find someone else with diabetes. I remember at times growing up feeling all alone with diabetes.
__________________  Type 1 since 1987 (age 5) MDI
Lantus and Humalog
"Just open your eyes
And see that life is beautiful."---SIXX:A.M.
 "I will get by, I will survive."---Grateful Dead |
11-04-2008, 05:11 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Landenberg, PA
Posts: 1,763
| | | I notice a lot of pumps now. We are not alone. Good story.
Mike
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Pumping since 2002 |
11-04-2008, 05:12 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Long Island
Posts: 662
| | Don't you love it when you make a connection like that?
__________________  Anne
Diagnosis: April 9, 1968
Pump (508): September 2001
522 + Sensor: February 18, 2008
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11-04-2008, 05:45 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
Posts: 8,563
| | Thanks everyone. It was a wonderful experience and I hope that what she got from what I said was that she can live a long life with diabetes.
LOL howdy !!!!!!!!! 
__________________ ~Cin~ Mom always says I'm special. Hmmm........wonder what she means by that?? LOL.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
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11-04-2008, 07:37 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: NYC
Posts: 2,325
| | | I never see anyone wearing a pump! The only other pumpers I've met have been at Minimed classes. One time when I went to donate blood the woman who did the initial testing (temp, BP, fingerstick) noticed mine and then pulled hers out from under her lab coat. But I've never seen anyone just walking around outside or in a store or restaurant.
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Liz
Type 1 dx 4/1987
Minimed Paradigm 722 6/2008 + CGMS
13mm Silhouettes + Sure-T infusion sets
Lifescan UltraSmart & UltraMini
Last A1c: 7/15/09: 5.8
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11-04-2008, 11:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 886
| | Hi;
That was nice of you Cindy, I'm sure that little girl will remember you for ever.
I mostly tell my diabetic patients I too have diabetes. Especially the newly diagnosed ones.
Years ago I was caring for an eleven year old girl who was newly diagnosed and her mother said that this girl felt her life was over now. I made sure I spoke of all the things I had planned and had done in earshot of her.When she left hospital her mother left me a small gift to say thankyou for giving her daughter hope. That certainly made my day and 15 years later I still wonder what she is up to
__________________ Take care from Alicat61
Meds Byetta 10mgs twice day Started on 1st Feb 2008) Working well for me
Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
150 mg aspirin daily (I need to have shares in my chemist shop) |
11-04-2008, 11:17 PM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by alicat61  Hi;
That was nice of you Cindy, I'm sure that little girl will remember you for ever.
I mostly tell my diabetic patients I too have diabetes. Especially the newly diagnosed ones.
Years ago I was caring for an eleven year old girl who was newly diagnosed and her mother said that this girl felt her life was over now. I made sure I spoke of all the things I had planned and had done in earshot of her.When she left hospital her mother left me a small gift to say thankyou for giving her daughter hope. That certainly made my day and 15 years later I still wonder what she is up to | Are you a doctor, nurse, CDE? Just curious.
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Pre-D Sept. 2008 BS Range (45-280)
Diet and Exercise One Touch Ultra Smart named Alice (Thanks PaleFaceGirl!)
A1C: 5.7 |
11-04-2008, 11:45 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RURAL NSW AUSTRALIA
Posts: 886
| | Hi
I'm a nurse that works mainly with kids. Though on our ward we get adults every now and again when we don'y have many kids in
__________________ Take care from Alicat61
Meds Byetta 10mgs twice day Started on 1st Feb 2008) Working well for me
Humalog 3 x day
Lantus daily
Metformin 1gm 3x a day
Aticand 32mg daily
Propranalol 40 mgs 2 x a day
150 mg aspirin daily (I need to have shares in my chemist shop) |
11-05-2008, 06:47 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: NC
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Originally Posted by poodlebone I never see anyone wearing a pump! The only other pumpers I've met have been at Minimed classes. One time when I went to donate blood the woman who did the initial testing (temp, BP, fingerstick) noticed mine and then pulled hers out from under her lab coat. But I've never seen anyone just walking around outside or in a store or restaurant. | I never really noticed pumps until I started wearing one. There was a guy I went to high school with that had one (back in '84) and since I've been on mine, I think (other than Dewey), I've only seen about 3 people wearing them. Seems like the pumpers are never in my endo's office when I am and if they are, they are very good at hiding their pumps. I don't hide mine. It took me long enough to finally start so I'm gonna show that bad boy off !!!!
__________________ ~Cin~ Mom always says I'm special. Hmmm........wonder what she means by that?? LOL.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller~
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11-05-2008, 08:46 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: California
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| | | Thanks, Cin. Nice story. Made me smile.
I've only seen two other people with pumps and also know one personally (my CDE.) And I'm here in MiniMed territory, too.
I love to hear "contact" stories. For years, and I'm talking a LOT of years, I was the only diabetic I knew. Very lonely. Thanks goodness for this site. |
11-05-2008, 08:53 AM
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| | Good for you Cin... a nice connection, and I'm sure that little girl is all the better for it 
I remember being out on a Summer's day and as I crossed the street noticed a young woman in shorts and a skimpy top... I only looked because it was the same colour top as my Mother always used to wear  ... anyhow she had a bare midriff and was wearing her pump "loud and proud" on her waistband... good on her, I say
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51 year old male, Metabolic Syndrome Dx Mar. 2003 |
11-05-2008, 10:01 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cambridge, MA
Posts: 544
| | | The first "pumper" I saw was a little girl in the mall...she was probably 7 or 8 and had it clipped onto her waistband...I recognized it right away because it was when I was still trying to decide whether or not I was going to get one and had been reading through all sorts of literature about them. Seeing her kind of pushed me over the edge to getting one, I figured if she was doing it what the heck was I so afraid of? The only other time I've seen another pumper is at my pump support meetings...maybe most keep theirs hidden? I wear mine on my waistband, don't care if anyone sees it. My daughter calls my pump "Marty" now because I have a zebra "skin" on it (Marty's the zebra from Madagascar, currently her favorite movie).
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MM 522 pump (blue) since May 2007 (RIP Becky (07/25/09), long live new blue Becky II)
CGMS-ing since November 2007
DXd April 1993 @ 30 years of age, Type 1
A1Cs: 7.4 (12/07); 6.6 (03/08); 6.0 (06/08); 5.8 (10/08); 5.8 (02/09); 5.7 (07/09)
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11-05-2008, 02:50 PM
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| | | I love experiences like that. |
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