Counting Down The Days To CGMS
A week ago today, I received my Real-Time Constant Glucose Monitoring System. I had come home from work every day last week hoping that the UPS man would have dropped a package off for me during the day and that it be there at home waiting for me when I walked through the door.
I didn’t ever come home to the package, but one night, as I’m eating dinner the door bell rang. Our door bell doesn’t ring in the evenings so I knew it was something important, I went running towards the front door, put the skid on, slid to the rug and opened the door. There was the box I’d been waiting for all week.
Like a little kid at Christmas, I ripped into that box faster than, hrm, it was fast, so fast you could barely see the box flying to shreds. I had the little sensor out of it’s box very quickly, in just moments I had it on it’s charger and was watching the green light.
It didn’t take me long to start looking for the manual so that I could try this sucker out (yes, I’m the person that will set it all up and walk into the doctor and say “i’ve already done that”). Sadly, I didn’t get the companion guide that usually accompanies these devices so all I got the pleasure of doing was the ability to stare at a big needle and be scared…that needle, it’s seriously enough to make me black out (yes, I’m a diabetic. yes I’ve been dealing with needles for 16 years. no, I don’t handle needles well.)
I sent a few txts back and forth with Laura, who, after only months of talking (we’ve not met yet), knows me far too well. She had her lips sealed very quickly where the operations of the CGMS were concerned. She made sure not to tell me anything and to make sure that I knew that I needed to go see the doctor to get trained. She knew that if I had enough information, I would’ve tried the thing out all on my own…she wasn’t gonna be any part of that.
Luckily for me, I have a sweet Minimed rep and she sent me the manual. I’ve read it, reviewed it, and could put the sensor on by myself (of this I’m confident), but I’d hate to betray the trust of my rep because she’s very nice and easy to work with.
Thus, I wait until Tuesday at 1pm when she’ll show me how to use the sensor.
On a last note, if Minimed is going to be Microsoft Windows centric, they need to ship Virtual PC and Windows to all us Mac users…don’t they know that Mac is a far superior computer when compared to the far too commonplace PC???
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August 4th, 2008 at 6:54 am
We Mac users have to stick together!! I hear you loud and clear! I can’t run any of the programs that come with all of our equipment..like my meter, pump, and that piece of crap Dexcom. My husband’s just died..the 4 yr. old monster G5 Power Mac, with 16 fans, this is the one before the Intel chip. I waited at the door to sign for the new iMac…like it was your CGMS!!! He wouldn’t let me leave the house until it got here. LOL!