Worst experiences with beeping pods
A while ago, my boyfriend gave me a list of reasons that he loves me. One was, "I love you because of your commitment to manage your diabetes better even though you do tend to beep a lot."
What a sweetie. :)
He and I have plenty of stories about pods beeping in private, but what are some of your stories about pods beeping in public settings? Here are a couple of mine:
--The first time I beeped in public was one of the worst! I'd been on the pod for about 10 days and was out of town for a Very Important Conference for my company's Most Important Customers at a swanky resort. As the marketing manager, I made a Big Presentation . . . and of course I started beeping about half an hour into it. My face turned bright red and the only thing I could think to do was to simply stop, walk over to my purse, open it up, get the PDM and press the "OK" button, then go back to the podium and continue as if nothing happened. Not a single person asked me about it ever. :)
--During a particularly intense 12-step meeting -- and, of course, during a moment of silence -- my pod started beeping. I was horrified and embarrassed to disrupt the meeting that way. To me, it felt worse than when someone's cell phone rings (which I hate!). Again, I didn't say anything and simply took care of business. After the meeting, one of the other members talked to me privately because it turns out that she was diabetic, too, and considering the OmniPod. She had seen the OmniPod logo on the case when I pulled it out of my purse. :)
Your turn!
What a sweetie. :)
He and I have plenty of stories about pods beeping in private, but what are some of your stories about pods beeping in public settings? Here are a couple of mine:
--The first time I beeped in public was one of the worst! I'd been on the pod for about 10 days and was out of town for a Very Important Conference for my company's Most Important Customers at a swanky resort. As the marketing manager, I made a Big Presentation . . . and of course I started beeping about half an hour into it. My face turned bright red and the only thing I could think to do was to simply stop, walk over to my purse, open it up, get the PDM and press the "OK" button, then go back to the podium and continue as if nothing happened. Not a single person asked me about it ever. :)
--During a particularly intense 12-step meeting -- and, of course, during a moment of silence -- my pod started beeping. I was horrified and embarrassed to disrupt the meeting that way. To me, it felt worse than when someone's cell phone rings (which I hate!). Again, I didn't say anything and simply took care of business. After the meeting, one of the other members talked to me privately because it turns out that she was diabetic, too, and considering the OmniPod. She had seen the OmniPod logo on the case when I pulled it out of my purse. :)
Your turn!
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Permalink Reply by Sherry Ann on -
I tried the freezer route just last week with the same results. It stopped beeping while in the freezer, but it resumed its beep when I took it out and it started to thaw. Then I used the paper clip routine... not to silence it, but rather to pry it open. Once my husband had it opened, he took out the batteries and thus silenced that irritating beep. We actually thought about David's idea of the hammer, but that probably would have made a mess that I didn't want to have to clean up.
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Permalink Reply by Anna Kingsbury on -
I call those Pods screamers. The freezer just gets the little guys away from you. I left one in my car glove box, and that thing beeped for a good 72 hours.....LOL. I have named my PDM Mr. Ed. When my husband heres it give an alert, he says to me that Mr. Ed is calling. I guess I have not had too many gone bad in a public place, but unless it was a screamer, I just take care of it....
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on -
I had a PDM error that caused me to change my pod a day early. Well I threw the pod away not thinking in 24 hours it will start beeping because it wanted to be change. The trash was taken out to our bin in the garage and the next day my husband and I were going crazy wondering what was wrong with our new car until my husband walked by the trash bin and remember the pod.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Adelman on -
I have posted this before.....but gotta do it again.
So one friday I get home from work. I go down to the basement to watch some TV & and chill. As I'm getting engrossed in my show, I hear this faint beeping. Sounds like a smoke dector Great. I go upstairs and the smoke detector is just fine, but I still hear the beeping. "Honey, do you hear that beeping ?' Sure do.... Go back down stairs....maybe its the sump pump alarm...no...feed back from the TV (turn it off) ...nope. Oh my g-d it's the alarm system, just what I need....nope...cabron monoxide detector....nada. Up to the third floor...got to be something up there.....nope. In the mean time I get "It's gone now" from the wife...No way I still hear it are you deaf ? Back to the basement. Time to start unpluging stuff....nothing. In the mean time the wife is on the phone to the alarm company, but according to them everything is fine. I live in a town house and my neighbor is hard of hearing...It's HIS smoke alarm. Run outside ( mind you it's about -20 with the wind chill) nothing. As long as I'm out I run around to the back of the house....nothing. Back inside. I'm clueless. Now the wife wants to call the local Fire Department. HOLD on a second ! I sit down in a kitchen chair to think this over. I assume the clasic "thinker" position....wait....wait...there it is....Turn on the barins to the POD & low and behold...POD Occlusion. Never had it before, so feeling stupid & laughing my a@* off I change the POD & beeping is gone...Gota love that thing -
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Permalink Reply by Jake on -
Ill give you one.. I was wearing the demo pod I.E. no insulin in it and it randomly started beeping whilst i was taking a friend to a Drs appt.. and of course i have no PDM to shut it off.. Lets just say I ended up going into a vacant stairwell and got physical with the POD...
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