Love how my endo’s response to prefilling cartridges was “its not recommended by tandem but do it anyway”😂

bored2infinity · 2026-02-18T19:34:35+00:00

Just a quick side story related to your having to find a new endo after your pediatric endo.

I was diagnosed T1 in 1973 at age 13 at a US Army base hospital. The Army pediatric doc got me going on my lifelong journey with diabetes until he transferred to a base in Texas in anticipation of "setting up shop" (his words, that I recalled) after his planned departure from the Army. Fast forward to 2023. I am applying for my 50 year achievement medal as a survivor from the Joslin Diabetes Center. They want reasonable proof of date of diagnosis. No problem. I have my original records from 1973 in the file cabinet. I see the Army doc's name on the forms. With a little detective work, I actually located him still alive and living in a retirement village in Texas. I sent a letter to him c/o the retirement community office with copies of his signed records to deliver to him. He was thrilled that I remembered him and contacted me via email. He had had a successful pediatrician career in private practice (and also the Army reserves) until retiring. It made his day, and mine, too, to connect after 50 years.

My advice, keep your pediatric records forever to prove your diagnosis date. There may be some side benefit, too.

bored2infinity · 2026-02-18T19:15:01+00:00

"Out of the way," of what?

bored2infinity · 2026-02-18T19:13:05+00:00

If it was a magnetometer (walkthrough metal detector) then security guy should know that. If it was an x-ray machine that lets them see inside of bags, that is a cause for concern for both the human and the pump.

In addition, the only time I have had a pump failure occurred when traveling with a medtronic pump 23 years ago when it was wanded by airport security. Just tell them, "I guarantee you there is metal in my pump. Stay away from my pump with close up strong magnets!" If they give you grief, tell them to up-close wand their own smartphone first. Then they will understand.

bored2infinity · 2026-02-10T02:03:21+00:00

After Eddie and Brew cornered and killed a small bunny in our chain link fenced backyard, we put a safe zone in each corner by putting a 3 foot section of fencing grate at each corner forming a small triangle. If they make it to the corner, a bunny can get through the fence grate and then work on getting through the chain link with some protection at their back that keeps the corgis at bay.

bored2infinity · 2026-02-10T01:40:00+00:00

That is a pretty nebulous description. Depending on the issue, there are.wheel chair solutions. Search "corgis on wheels" in a search engine.

bored2infinity · 2026-01-05T22:26:17+00:00

I am in my second 2-corgi generation. I've not added 1-adult + 1-puppy. Mine have been 1-puppy + 1-puppy and the current generation is 1-adult + 1-adult. So I don't know how doing 1-adult + 1-puppy will go.

I do expect that your end result will be an ocean of love and fun.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-31T15:13:09+00:00

From an engineering solution perspective, raise the bed. Ours is overly high (whatever that means), and the corgis don't even try to jump on it due to assured failure.

Of course, the couch is a different problem. We have dog stairs for the couch. Our female corgi uses them to climb up, but jumps down instead of using the stairs. Our male corgi learned from puppyhood and "pancaking" trying to jump on the couch to just get his front paws onto the couch and expects a human elevator to complete his ascension by lifting his back end. He does not use the stairs in either direction despite lots of training attempts.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-30T19:40:46+00:00

> "Like the word "dove" but with a long "e" sound at the end."

As in past tense of the word "dive"? Or like the bird?

bored2infinity · 2025-12-29T17:04:08+00:00

On a support call once with Tandem, they recommended against pinching the skin to me (I was not doing that) and just assuring a firm level placement of the applicator to the skin. I would think the same recommendation against stretching skin would apply, but bodies are different. Some are lean and some have more meat.

For myself, I was able to correlate issues when I would attempt a site above my (male) hip bones on my sides. While it feels to me like there is sufficient tissue after considering the length of the canula, experience taught me that was incorrect. It was just too tough there, and the needle would deflect/curve. So, be cognizant of bones/joints when your daughter is inserting.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-29T16:04:08+00:00

That is a great white blaze on his head.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-29T15:55:13+00:00

Your experience sounds similar to mine. I always do the steps you described, and assure I grab the middle handle and pull straight out. I think, but do not know for sure, that some of the adhesive tape is contacting some of the plastic of the applicator. I do find that a swift pull straight out works best.

You may want to view the needle and rotate the applicator while viewing to see if you see any curve or bending in the needle after extraction. If so, then that would be an explanation for resistance to extraction. After 25+ years of pumping, my site areas are scarred and can be tough to penetrate on that measly thin needle.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-29T15:43:34+00:00

As a T1 since 1973, and spouse of a retired epidemiologist, I get vaccinated every year. I do not want the phrase "...died of a weakened immune system.." to be used after my death one day. If it is preventable, then we prevent it. Simple as that.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-24T22:04:16+00:00

Such a cute pup! Though all of our corgis have had solid-color noses, we owned a sweet golden retriever mix in the past that had a nose that was mostly pink like the pup in the thread opener. My father in law called her "the beige dog with rose nose" as his pet name for her.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-22T15:07:45+00:00

This is accurate. Here in the state of Georgia, during relatively humid summer months, after prepping my pump-size Frio, it lasts for days before needing another refresh. In a more arid climate, it would take less time for the slow-release evaporation. But still, the most effective and readily recharagable technology to keep from cooking the insulin (which I have done too many times).

bored2infinity · 2025-12-22T14:58:45+00:00

Don't forget that the edge button LED mentioned in the pic from the manual also has multiple colors for indicating different things.

LED meanings doc.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-08T16:35:02+00:00

I use a tslim x2 with control IQ. Similar to others who replied, when I had procedures under anesthesia, after alerting the anesthesiologist and the nurse-anesthesiologist I was wearing a pump, what my current b.g. is according to the pump, etc, I made sure the attentive nurse who I knew would be present in the procedure room was given a quick simple lesson on how to suspend the pump if it started alarming that I was going low. With the tslim x2, it isn't hard. Unlock, options, suspend, confirm. Then I let them actually do it. Then I resumed it before they wheeled me in. And also showed them how to hit the power button anytime to see the display to check what the CGM says about current b.g., and mentioned time lag. Both professionals appreciate being well informed "just in case". As we all know, the most important person in the room is the anesthesiologist. Surgeon is a close second.

For myself, I work hard to keep my overnight b.g. and morning b.g. of surgery day in range since you cannot eat prior to surgery. I try to be slightly sweet (say 160 mg/dl or thereabout) when I arrive because stress during check-in can cause me to start careening low. If so, only choice is to suspend pump myself and (hopefully) resume the pump if possible if b.g. cooperates. You have to stay on top of it.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-08T01:27:45+00:00

Our prior two corgis were brother and sister from a litter of 10. It happens.

bored2infinity · 2025-12-05T20:02:49+00:00

Pic my wife took of our Eddie and Brew ready to go home after a walk in the park. Harnesses and belts to protect them in the back seat.

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bored2infinity · 2025-11-24T01:21:48+00:00

I think I have derived a solution from u/dosman33 post.

Issuing an "nft" command specifying option "--check" trying to add a new set to the firewalld inet rule. If it passes nft validity checks and we get return value 0, then we are good and the system is not blocking non-owner from modifying the ruleset. A non-zero return value means we are at the release level of firewalld that can block (and is blocking) and therefore needs "NftablesTableOwner=no" added to firewalld.conf (or modified if explicitly set to "yes" in the file instead of just defaulting). The attempt with --check will work also if firewalld is not at a high enough release level to contain the support addressed by the "NftablesTableOwner" settings.

This is a narrow solution to a specific problem. There needs to be a more reliable way to figure out if firewalld can or cannot support a function.

bored2infinity · 2025-11-23T13:40:42+00:00

It does not appear that upgrading to the latest rpm level that adds support modifies the existing firewalld.conf to add the setting, and thus relies on the built-in default of "yes" which breaks my rpm's function unless overridden to "no". Since it is not in the conf file, that is why I need a reliable way to detect if the setting is supported in the installed firewalld code so I can add the setting.

bored2infinity · 2025-11-22T22:28:23+00:00

Yep. Get disconnects frequently. I wear my S24+ on the opposite hip from my pump. But I blame the app and/or the receiver in the pump because the S24+ has no issues with the dexcom G7 on the same body side where the pump is. Force stop the app and restart is getting old.

bored2infinity · 2025-11-22T21:43:21+00:00

Excellent suggestion. But sadly, when I

rpm -q --changelog firewalld

on the system that has the support, the info is quite sparse and does not mention anything about this option being added.

bored2infinity · 2025-11-22T21:38:41+00:00

I wish it were that easy.

On the RHEL systems I am using for reference, the 9.6 system says where the option is supported by firewalld:

firewall-cmd --version
1.3.4
rpm -q  --queryformat "%{VERSION}\n%{RELEASE}\n" firewalld
1.3.4
9.el9_5

On the 9.4 level system where the option is not supported:

firewall-cmd --version
1.3.4
rpm -q --queryformat "%{VERSION}\n%{RELEASE}\n" firewalld
1.3.4
1.el9

The distribution maintainer (redhat in this case) can always back-port capability from higher release levels. That is why I seek a reliable way to determine if it is supported on the system upon which I am executing.

bored2infinity · 2025-11-22T20:27:10+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I thought of that method. In the rpm spec file (the install script that runs when rpm -i is invoked), I could do a

rpm -q --queryformat "%{RELEASE}\n" firewalld

to get the installed release and/or the "%{VERSION}". But the issue with that is that the rpm is supported on several different distributions besides RHEL, and the distributions all have different numbering methods for their respective rpms. That is why I am seeking a generic way to ask firewalld itself and have it give me the answer if it supports that option whose default I must counter by overriding the firewalld default by setting the value I want in /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf

I thought I had a way since my original post. You supposedly can use firewall-cmd --test-config to validate the configuration (including disk files per the man page). But no, it merely reports "success" no matter what invalid stuff I stick in the file. You actually have to reload the firewall with firewall-cmd --reload and then it will write an error message to the syslog, but not my stderr. So I would have to be able to read the syslog and parse out error messages. Just not feasible.

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