Diabetes Macgyverism #601: The Fine Art & Convenience Of The Origami Pre-Filled Insulin Reservoir

Living amongst diabetes forces us to acquire creative together with concealment our inner Diabetes MacGyver whenever together with wherever nosotros remove to. Like Last week, when I was getting cook to exceed away to a fundraiser together with heard the all to familiar, twenty unit of measurement countdown alert on my pump. Sometimes (and fifty-fifty though I hate, hate, abhor to exercise it,) I notice that I accept to switch out my insulin reservoir when it’s hovering or together with then twenty units or less because that item reservoir seems to accept lost its efficiency. 

Other times, my reservoir plant perfectly - together with I tin exceed away vesture it until it’s downwards to v units.
FTR: I’ve talked to many people who vesture dissimilar pumps re: this trial - this is non a  specific see build issue.
Sidebar: If I exercise accept to switch it out or together with then twenty units - I salvage the reservoir, calculate the bolus on my see together with manually inject the units because throwing out insulin is non an option.
The reservoir that was inwards my see happened to endure 1 of those amazing “good to the final drop,” reservoirs together with my blood sugars were non exclusively behaving, they were positively angelic - which of course of report meant my blood sugars could exceed away all demonic at anytime, because diabetes. 
I was going out for dinner, I didn’t know what type of nutrient was beingness served together with I’d rather endure security than deplorable when it comes to having plenty insulin on my soul together with inwards my pump. 

I went to the fridge, grabbed my opened upwards bottle of insulin (which was on it’s final stand,) together with filled a reservoir amongst the entire contents of the bottle- but over a hundred units of curt acting insulin.

 Then I placed the reservoir dorsum inwards its one-half opened wrapper....

and proceeded to origami the pre-filled reservoir all neat together with pretty, together with secured it amongst a cloth pilus tie.

Then I placed the freshly filled reservoir inwards the pocket-sized zippered compartment within my handbag together with said freshly reservoir was locked, cook to endure loaded together with at 1 time security from handbag debris - and I was proud that I 1 time once to a greater extent than embraced my inner Diabetes MacGyver. 
I exercise this item origami reservoir play tricks when I don’t experience similar taking an entire bottle of insulin out amongst me - which is a lot together with stems from me 1 time losing 3/4 filled bottle of insulin over decade agone that had some how fallen out of my handbag together with yet haunts me to this day. 
If for some argue I needed to manually inject - I tin yet exercise that amongst the pre-filled reservoir, together with if God foreclose I lost it - I wouldn’t endure freaking out equally much equally if I’d lost an entire bottle of insulin. 
I too exercise this play tricks when I’m flying. And YES, I maintain my insulin bottles(s) inwards my carry-on purse AT ALL TIMES, but I notice keeping an origami filled reservoir inwards pocket-sized ziplock purse together with tucked inwards a zippered compartment inwards said carry-on, makes it much easier to access together with saves fourth dimension when I’m uncomfortably crammed inwards a pocket-sized infinite amongst express elbow together with leg room, together with flight inwards a narrow, metal, germ filled subway of strangers. 
If you lot experience similar sharing 1 of your Diabetes MacGyverisms, that would endure great, because I'm all for learning something new and useful to add together to my Diabetes MacGyver repertoire!