Comment by Group_B

Not sure why this is got on the front page here. This is a just rant / vent more than anything else.

> I've been pretty honest over the years that I value having an insulin pump, but that I also hate the manufacturers and designers of every pump I've ever used. If you introduced me to any person who has ever designed an insulin pump I've used, I would probably punch them in the face and cuss them out in front of their children.

Hahaha hilarious joke.

> I've lived with diabetes for 27 years and I've been on pumps for 25. I have spent a quarter of a century relying on machines to keep me alive. It has never failed on me before.

Really feel this hatred is uncalled for if this is the first true failure the author has had.

> It's incredible that I've been able to do this, and it's incredible that it never occurred to me to plan for a situation where the entire pump would fucking break.

Lesson learned!

> If I don't write what I've learned here, one of those hideously irritating diabetics who goes on Reddit and argues about everything from the perspective of Perfect, Unerring Care will send me an email criticizing me. Fuck you, if that's you. If you were even thinking of emailing me to criticize me about what I did, I hope you die. Of diabetes.

Gonna send an email after posting this!

> It's very difficult to have a normal attitude about a tech company that keeps you alive, but it's even harder to be normal about it when the tech fucking breaks. Even if we lived in a utopia, with universal healthcare, universal pharmacy medication searches, and helpful customer service reps who send backup pumps directly to my location on the backs of swift eagles... even then, I don't think it's possible to live without resentment for the technology keeping you alive.

I do not understand this attitude at all. So you go like 25 years without your pump failing and this one failure gives you a complete 180 stance on medical tech? Lucky for you there is always the option to go back on pens! 1000 times less points of failure.

I look forward to the future posts on the Dexcom G7. Now that thing is a piece of shit. Especially frustrating when I never had problems with the G6. Dexcom managed to make their product worse and is forcing us all to "upgrade". There's already a class action lawsuit against it. Can't wait to receive my $20 from it in 5 years!