Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Not wordless at all WEDNESDAY!

This is a picture of my abdomen from the other day.  It was time for a site change so I go through all the priming, and filling of reservoir, then pinch my stomach to insert the needle. Same thing I do every three days every week of every month of every year. Needless to say, I'm used to it.

"OWWWWWW. *explicit* GAHH. *explicit*" is what came out of my mouth.

I barely had the needle in my abdomen and it was killing me.  Felt like a hot knife was slicing into my body. I debated whether or not to pull it out or push it in and hope it didn't hurt once it was in, so I pushed a LITTLE bit further in, then STRAIGHT out!! Way too painful! Then the little dot started to bleed. (square bandaid in upper right)

I always leave my old site in for a few hours to make sure that the new one is good before I rip out the old one, so later that night I pulled out the old site.  Guess what? It started bleeding too! Did I mention I was wearing a white shirt? that little thing wouldn't stop bleeding! I had to cup my hand under it because I was not near a tissue and it was dripping down my stomach and I didn't want it to get on the carpet!

These type of things happen often, and separately they would not be super annoying.  However together, they made me a bit nutty.

1 comments:

Michael Hoskins said...

Totally get that. The pain and gushers, or even slight bleeders, are always an adventure to navigate. Love it when it does get on the carpet, or even better on a new white work shirt. Of course, I LOVE how MM makes their CGM sensor needle look like a huge bumble bee... that helps the mental aspects of all this even more. Anyhow, hope the new site worked out better!