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10. Placement of the pump is key and it must be moved and adjusted according to your current activity.

9. Dropping your insulin pump into the toilet is bad, therefore, always secure before using the toilet.

8. It is the insulin delivery that hurts and not the actual needle. Not having a needle shows me the errors in my prior assumptions.

7. Medtronics rocks at presales activity, but completely sucks at post sales support.

6. You must only take your morning shower when you are awake enough to actually figure out how to detach your cord.

5. My clothing needs to be thicker and my underwear needs to have a bit more material. Attaching an insulin pump to string bikini underwear is not at all feasible.

4. Six thousand dollars seems like an awful lot of money for a device that looks like it is straight from a 1980’s movie.

3. My children are resilient. Neither even cared that I had a purple device attached to my body or a cord hanging from me.

2. The insulin pump makes me feel like a Borg drone.

1. As a Borg drone, I know resistance is futile. I am a type 1 diabetic and assimilation to my new way of life is required.