# CGM alarms and partners - what's your experience? **URL:** \ **Category:** Emotional Health\ **Created:** [November 28, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/cgm-alarms-and-partners-whats-your-experience/5655 "2018-11-28T16:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![TravelingOn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/travelingon/32/1583_2.png) [@TravelingOn](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/TravelingOn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/cgm-alarms-and-partners-whats-your-experience/5655/31 "2018-12-05T17:51:13Z")
> [@cardamom](#): > > That’s interesting—I honestly can’t imagine wanting my partner to do that. Truth be told, I don’t really like doing it. But I want to have a testing kit next to my bed side so I don’t ever have to get up again [when EH can’t find his actual testing kit](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/instinct-versus-observation/5688/41). 🤣 And really the most useful time is pre CGM, when we would be on long road trips. He usually drives, and I have tested his blood sugar while he was driving and that is handy. But having a kit by my bed wouldn’t really help at that point! 😉 I think many of the things I tend to do in regards to EH’s diabetes are actually there to make my life nicer. Which is incredibly selfish, but true. I worry less if I know we have a source of sugar. I worry less if I know he could do a fingerstick and identify what his blood sugar actually is. I worry less if we have a supply of insulin in the fridge. And the suitcase. And the bag. And a spare pod. Even though we are really often flying by the seat of our pants, I have developed some failsafes over the years. He’d be fine with one testing kit and not a lot of backup supplies. But I have spent enough vacation waiting in line at Cosco pharmacy to get missing D prescriptions that I never need to do that again. 😂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/cgm-alarms-and-partners-whats-your-experience/5655)._