This is why I use the long tubing. When the pump falls to the floor it doesn’t pull my site out.
Other diabetic moments:
Forgetting to reconnect after taking a shower or handing the pump to the nurse to download data.
Forgetting to finish priming after changing an infusion set.
Forgetting to make that final button push to deliver the bolus.
Terry
I had once used the Omni pod but then switched to the animus. i had to make sure not to forget the omni pod controler
Oh yeah, and then there was the time I went out to my birthday dinner with my brother and his family, and fully planned to bolus for the rice I was going to eat at the Thai restaurant, but then I got so excited talking and enjoying my family that I forgot to bolus at all. My CGM alerted me when I got to 183, and I immediately bolused, but I ended up at 349 (or so) before the insulin finally started taking effect. What a way to celebrate a birthday!!! 
I am new to pumping, but have already forgotten my pump several times with my hand. I have almost pulled my site out 2 and I heard that really hurts. I almost forgot to bolus for a meal yesterday…yeah the pump won’t do it by itself…shucks! Then I had suspended the pump ( I have medtronic) to go shower, hooked back up, for got to unsuspend…yeah bs went to 400…ooops. I think we all have moments!
yes… I wasted about 8 units there. The alarm only goes off if there is a kink in the tube or for some reason the insulin isn’t pushing through. In this case, the nightstand offered very little resistance to it.
So many horror stories about pumps! I’ll take the other side of the argument.
I am so glad that I have a tethered (not tube-free, no remote) pump. I always know where it is (I disconnect to swim or shower, and that’s it). Before pumping, there were times that I couldn’t remember if I took my Lantus or not, because it became such a routine, subconscious activity. Now that is terrifying!! Either I take it (possibly, again), risking a prolonged 24-hour hypo, or I don’t, risking high blood sugars and possible DKA. You can’t just “wait an hour” and see what happens before making the decision like you can with fast-acting bolus insulin.
On a more fun note (except for my wife), I’ve run around the house like a madman looking for my meter before leaving the house, then put it down while I ran around the house like a madman looking for my keys, then forgot where I’d just put my meter…
LOL! Been there done that. Putting one down for the other that is!
Oh yes! I can identify with that! Very nearly locked my key in the flat this morning - while looking for something else (which I discovered that I forgot!) Took me an hour to calm down!
I went to the microwave and started to punch in my bloodsugar reading for time/cook.
Technically, I think that is called a “Non Diabetic Moment.”
LOL – never happens to me, either (***fingers crossed firmly behind my back!***)
Like when I take my synthroid and five minutes later I can’t remember if I took it or not and have to go back and inspect my pill day minder to be sure.
Or when I realize that I forgot to order my medication on-line (which takes about a week to receive) and I have only three pills left.
Then there’s when I carefully test by BG’s, write it down, count my carbs, write them down, calculate my insulin, write that down, eat my dinner and realize an hour later that I never injected my insulin. Eeeeek.
OMG LOL – I did that two weeks ago…WHEEEEE!!!
took a shower the other night, was tired went to bed and forgot to hook pump back on, woke up no pump {you know how you are always checking it} went all night without it blood test was over 300…
I have done the second one a couple times. Ugh I hate the high that comes with a simple prime. grr.
I have done that the other day. Oh that’s scary. although I always realize that its the carbs its asking for.
That happens to me too… Sometimes, especially in the evening when I’m tired I go to bed thinking…“was that Insulatard I just injected or Novorapid…?” Then I try to stay awake, afraid that I injected Novorapid and that I’ll get really low because of it, then I can feel myself falling asleep (it’s actually very scary) and then I think I’m going into coma or something. I’m able to laugh about it in the morning though.
Other diabetic moments include testing glucose levels when I’m low and wondering why there’s no blood coming out when I press my finger against the test strip instead of the lancet…haha.
Well, I was at the AADE conference last week, and had a low, and was scrabbling frantically in my purse for my glucose tablets, and couldn’t find them. But there were 3 CDE’s in the couches around me (we were in the lounge), and I must have said I was low, and every one of them started scrabbling in her purse to find something to stuff my face with. How lovely of them to bring stuff for the diabetics in the group! I also couldn’t figure out how to use my lancet thingie, and kept trying to prick my finger with the wrong end.
And later, when I was recovered, and got back to my room, I looked for my glucose tablets, and there they were, right where they were supposed to be!