…. is illegal now in NZ as we all know. However, what about bolusing and driving?

Yesterday I was in Ponsonby to have coffee with a friend. I was on my way home, sitting at the traffic lights near Three Lamps. I first of all did a BG test while I sat there. It was ever so slightly on the high side so I then reached down to my pump to program in a correction bolus.

It was at this point that I realised that I was sitting bang, smack outside the Ponsonby Police station. And a policeman was just locking up his patrol car in the carpark about 5m from where my car was sitting. Before he could…

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I mentioned in an earlier post that going on the pump is not the silver bullet we sometimes imagine it to be. It definitely requires a lot of work, and more organisation than being on MDI that’s for sure (instead of just needles and vials you’ve got a whole new array of kit you need to carry around with you: insertion sets + devices, wipes, vials of insulin, reservoirs, lines, batteries etc etc).

This morning was case in point. My pump ran out of insulin completely just as I was running out the door. I’d taken my breakfast bolus and was planning to eat my breakfast on the way in in the car. My husband was driving me in…

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