# Auto-syringes and early pumps/ CGMs **URL:** \ **Category:** Gear\ **Created:** [August 19, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/auto-syringes-and-early-pumps-cgms/1656 "2017-08-19T18:04:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Beacher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Beacher](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Beacher)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/auto-syringes-and-early-pumps-cgms/1656/3 "2017-08-19T20:25:26Z")
> [@Combined years?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/combined-years/532/73): > > My small-town local pharmacy had never had to dispense saline for injection to anyone, so they gave it to me in a 4-ounce bottle with a screwcap. It was easily contaminated. The saline bottle had to be kept refrigerated, of course. When I crossed the country by train to go to university, I didn’t have access to a fridge, so I just kept the screwcap bottle in my luggage and didn’t pay much attention to it. When I arrived on the opposite coast, I fell dreadfully ill and had to go to emergency, and I took the bottle with me just in case I needed to refill while there. All the ER nurses gathered around my bed to examine the newfangled insulin pump. Then the senior nurse, a Scottish lady with a thick accent, held up my saline bottle, gave it a shake, and said, “Young man, there’s feces in this.” “Feces?!” I said, aghast. “No, silly – _fishes_.” Sure enough the saline was looking a bit pond-scummy after five days out of the fridge. The hospital kindly hooked me up with a big-city pharmacy that could provide me with – the novelty! – saline in a bottle with a rubber cap. I tend not to get excited about things, but now and then I look at my little Omnipod and think it really is quite astonishing what they can do these days. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/auto-syringes-and-early-pumps-cgms/1656)._