About my cyborg parts!

If you don’t know me my name is Caroline Hunt like it says up top. I’ve been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes since i was 8 years old (14 years). some of my friends and family don’t really understand a lot of my diagnosis’s, so i thought i would share it for the first blog about what i do to take care of myself on a daily basis.

to my left on the image above you see me working on my Omni pod (my pancreas). It’s a little round clear pod that i get out and it as a paper backing that i peel off and stick any place on my body that i fat on…before that i have to get it out it comes with a needle what a surprise anyways, on the finger stick device it says all what i have to do (like instructions). I have to get a clear class bottle of insulin out as shown above (it’s crazy how that keeps me alive. isn’t?!) and I take the needle and place it in the hole and draw how much i need it to the needle. Place the needle in to the little round hole in to the Omni pod, then push the needle down. (few… that was a lot of talk about needles , am i right?) Now i just have to wait until it processes the insulin in to the Omni pod. Ok back to the part i said up top, i take the paper off of the sticker back then i place it on wear my fat is. Right now i have it on the left back of my arm. I make sure it’s on there nice and tight and here comes the little bit of pain! On my finger stick device (like I said follow the instructions) finally! it says start what that means is that it’s ready to shoot the needle in me….. ouch! (You maybe asking if it stays in there for the next three days (that’s how much i have to change my Omni pod) the answer is no! the shot comes out and goes back in to the pod and there’s a little plastic tube that stays in, so the insulin comes in through that.

Now I’m going to talk about my Dexcom (dex is what i call it) i will make this short. what it does is that the needle is in a plunger (not for toilets) and it’s attached to a square plastic holder and under it it’s the sticky part so it can stay on me. I take the whole thing and put it where I have fat as well. I push the plunger with the needle in side me and the plunger comes off and then i make sure the sticky part is on me good. when all that is done I’ll put a gray square reader (transmitter) in the square hole and attach it. The reason i have another device is that because i can put the Dexcom app on my phone and it reads my blood sugars how cool is that! I can leave it on for about 2-3 weeks.

Shout out to pumppeelz for making diabetes cool with stickers!

Hope you got lots of good information about my diabetes!