{"id":3696,"date":"2003-10-24T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T12:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/another-first\/"},"modified":"2003-10-24T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T12:48:10","slug":"another-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/another-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Another first — battery change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a bit worried about changing the battery on my pump. Okay, the first time doing everything along has been a bit scary.<\/p>\n

The whole — pump has to have a battery thing bothers me. I’m a bit anal about batteries anyway, every since I went to a AP grading to Clemson state and arrived without Palm Pilot batteries and NO place to get them. Had to live without it for 2 days. Major withdrawal.<\/p>\n

So anyway, this pump (Animas) does make a hideous sound when it is out of battery. I’ve heard it once, when I first got the pump. But the good news, is that the battery lasted 9 weeks and a day.<\/p>\n

9 weeks of pumping 60-90 units of insulin a day, site changes, and downloading data. Not bad!<\/p>\n

The batteries aren’t cheap, but I did find a source of inexpensive on Ebay — go to Ebay and do a search on insulin pump and it will come up. I’ve put a set of those in, and I’ll let you guys know how well they lasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a bit worried about changing the battery on my pump. Okay, the first time doing everything along has been a bit scary. The whole — pump has to have a battery thing bothers me. I’m a bit anal about batteries anyway, every since I went to a AP grading to Clemson state and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}