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Old 06-28-2005, 03:47 PM
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Arrow Wearing your pump

For those that wear their pump on the belt clip or outside your clothing, do you find it hard to tuck in your shirt? I wear a uniform at work and have wondered if this would cause a problem to have my shirt tucked in while wearing a pump on the outside of your clothing?


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Old 06-28-2005, 04:06 PM
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I don't always have my shirt tucked in, but when I do I have no problems tucking in my shirt or wearing the pump.
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Old 06-28-2005, 04:23 PM
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The 43 inch tubing helps in that situation.
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Old 06-29-2005, 05:03 AM
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yes, definitely use the longer infusion set, but no. My biggest problem with tucking in a shirt is that I'm 6'2" and usually after the first couple of washes, the darned shirt-tail gets so short it pops out when I sit down! But not because of my pump.
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Old 06-29-2005, 08:29 AM
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I dont have a problem either and I am using the long infusion set.
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Old 06-29-2005, 12:20 PM
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I use the 23 inch sets, and I do not have a problem tucking in my shirts.
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