Sensor Refresher

Today I went in to my clinic for a refresher course on sensors.  The new sensors are so awesome - they now last six days instead of 3, and you only have to calibrate them every 12 hours instead of 8!  Everyone who participated was walked through the steps of setting one up - so I've got one running for the next six days! 

I don't really remember using the little transmitter (although I totally did back in 2010) so it feels new and so much better than my original transmitter, which is the one I remember using. I was happy to realize that even though some of the technology has changed a bit, I still pretty much remembered what I was doing.  And the new alerts and things are relatively straightforward, so I should be okay moving forward.

Other important note: I used the sensor inserter-thingy (although I had to do it away from the rest of the group because I was still a bit freaked out at the thought of doing it).  And using it was totally fine!  It'll probably take me a few more tries before I'm totally over the fear though.

This doesn't look as scary as the old one I remember!

The sensor is totally up and running right now.  It uses so much less tape and stuff than I had to use years ago, which is amazing in my mind.  And even better - I'll be able to go swimming with it on tonight (apparently the little transmitter, when properly connected to a sensor, is water-tight)!  The transmitter has a 40 minute memory, so if I decide to leave my pump in my locker the transmitter will be able to hold the data for me.  Of course, I'm thinking I'll probably just bring my pump with me to the pool deck and leave it in a ziplock bag instead - I don't want to risk losing any data!

Here's the old one for comparison.  There's something about an open inserter-thing that just fills me with dread!