Couple of examples of when the new omnipod model would fail. (Notice how inopportune these moments of BlueTooth communication failure are LIKLEY to be, compared with RF. Pumps are engineered to run off RF for a reason.)
1.) At the State Fair when there is a ton of police/radio/tv signal interference and you have to walk miles in the driving sun to leave.
2.) While responding to the 35-W bridge collapse to provide medical assistance to victims
3.) During the Minneapolis protests when huge crowds of people where moving spontaneously throughout the city and the police were actively blocking cell phone communications for crowd control.
While moments like these occasionally disrupt RF communication and cause pump failure, there’s no way BT doesn’t go down. BT is ‘flaky’ and unreliable. I recall @DrBB having failures from living in a crowded apartment complex.
I don’t know how much flexibility I currently have to rearrange my life to accommodate Omnipod failure (hardware otherwise). I should be troubleshooting diabetes, not this other crap. This other crap is THEIR job, not mine. They need to do THEIR job so I can be successful doing mine.
Maybe I’m just tired of accommodating the healthcare system and doing the work that they get paid to do. I’m the person with disability, not them. I am but one person. There are limits. All the time I dedicate to accommodating them take a huge toll on what I am able to do as individual. It’s not right. OmniPod 5 Nightmare